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| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 15 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0252033930 |
A panoramic collection of ninety photographs captures the spirit of people at work and play along the Illinois River, as well as the quiet beauty of the flora and fauna that make the river a natural retreat.
| Author | : Jerry M. Hay |
| Publisher | : Inland Waterways Books |
| Total Pages | : 102 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1607438569 |
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : 3 Fields Books |
| Total Pages | : 120 |
| Release | : 2022-06-16 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780252086625 |
| Author | : Dean Klinkenberg |
| Publisher | : Dean Klinkenberg |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Mississippi River |
| ISBN | : 9780971690448 |
| Author | : Eddy Harris |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1998-09-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780805059038 |
The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.
| Author | : Jason Stacy |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2021-05-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0252052730 |
From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself.
| Author | : Joe William Trotter |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 1998-03-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780813109503 |
Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the industrial age, it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. The Ohio became known as the "River Jordan," symbolizing the path to the promised land. In the urban centers of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, blacks faced racial hostility from outside their immediate neighborhoods as well as class, color, and cultural fragmentation among themselves. Yet despite these pressures, African Americans were able to create vibrant new communities as former agricultural workers transformed themselves into a new urban working class. Unlike most studies of black urban life, Trotter's work considers several cities and compares their economic conditions, demographic makeup, and political and cultural conditions. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter traces the development of African American urban centers through the civil rights movement and the developments of recent years.
| Author | : Alan Guebert |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 153 |
| Release | : 2015-05-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0252097483 |
"The river was in God's hands, the cows in ours." So passed the days on Indian Farm, a dairy operation on 700 acres of rich Illinois bottomland. In this collection, Alan Guebert and his daughter-editor Mary Grace Foxwell recall Guebert's years on the land working as part of that all-consuming collaborative effort known as the family farm. Here are Guebert's tireless parents, measuring the year not in months but in seasons for sewing, haying, and doing the books; Jackie the farmhand, needing ninety minutes to do sixty minutes' work and cussing the entire time; Hoard the dairyman, sore fingers wrapped in electrician's tape, sharing wine and the prettiest Christmas tree ever; and the unflappable Uncle Honey, spreading mayhem via mistreated machinery, flipped wagons, and the careless union of diesel fuel and fire. Guebert's heartfelt and humorous reminiscences depict the hard labor and simple pleasures to be found in ennobling work, and show that in life, as in farming, Uncle Honey had it right with his succinct philosophy for overcoming adversity: "the secret's not to stop." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DooGQqUlXI4&index=1&list=FLPxtuez-lmHxi5zpooYEnBg
| Author | : C. William Horrell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Illinois |
| ISBN | : 9780809336043 |
Situated between the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, the Southern Illinois country is rich in history, folklore, scenery, and natural resources. At about the latitude of southern Virginia, and extending from the flat prairie farmland of central Illinois to the rugged Illinois Ozarks, the area is the natural terminal boundary for hundreds of plant species reaching out to all points of the compass. It is also the oldest and most sparsely populated part of Illinois, a region of small towns and independent people. Surveying the area in words and pictures, the authors sensitively and appreciatively portray the region's special qualities. Land Between the Rivers, a perennial classic since it was first published in 1973, provides an uncommon portrayal of American life in a distinct region, a memorable journey in both time and place.
| Author | : Sandra Steingraber |
| Publisher | : Virago Press |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Cancer |
| ISBN | : 9781860495359 |
Published more than three decades after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring warned of the impact of chemicals on the environment, this book offers a critique of current thinking on cancer and its causes. It argues that the evidence has been wilfully ignored, and that the environment is still being poisoned. Throughout her study, the author weaves two stories - of Rachel Carson and her battle to be heard and of her own cancer of the bladder, which she traces back to agricultural and industrial contamination.
