Lyon Mountain
Author: Lawrence P. Gooley
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781567150827
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Lost Ski Areas of the Northern Adirondacks
Author: Jeremy K. Davis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-10-14
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1625846045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome of the northern Adirondacks' most beloved ski areas have sadly not survived the test of time despite the pristine powder found from the High Peaks to the St. Lawrence. Even after hosting the Winter Olympics twice, Lake Placid hides fourteen abandoned ski areas. In the Whiteface area, the once-prosperous resort Paleface, or Bassett Mountain, succumbed after a series of bad winters. Juniper Hills was "the biggest little hill in the North Country" and welcomed families in the Northern Tier for more than fifteen years. Big Tupper in Tupper Lake and Otis Mountain in Elizabethtown defied the odds and were lovingly restored in recent years. Jeremy Davis of the New England/Northeast Lost Ski Areas Project rediscovers these lost trails and shares beloved memories of the people who skied on them.
Mary Lyon
Author: James E. Hartley
Publisher: Doorlight Publications
Published: 2008-10-08
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0977837262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1837, by virtue of dogged determination and never removing her sight from her goal, Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, the world's oldest continuing college for women. This volume draws together the major documents and writings of her remarkable career.
Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke
Author: Elizabeth Alden Green
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecollections of Mary Lyon
Author: Fidelia Fiske
Publisher:
Published: 1866
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMountain Dialogues
Author: Frank Waters
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling study of the origins and trajectory of one of the legendary black uprisings against apartheid, Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid draws on insights gained from the literature on collective action and social movements. It delves into the Alexandra Rebellion of 1986 to reveal its inner workings. Belinda Bozzoli's aim is to examine how the residents of Alexandra, a poverty-stricken segregated township in Johannesburg, manipulated and overturned the meanings of space, time, and power in their sequestered world. She explains how they used political theater to convey, stage, and dramatize their struggle and how young and old residents generated differing ideologies and tactics, giving rise to a distinct form of generational politics. Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid asks the reader to enter into the world of the rebels and to confront the moral complexity and social duress they experienced as they invented new social forms and violently attacked old ones. It is an important study of collective action that will be of great interest to sociologists and to scholars of Africa, particularly to those interested in the antiapartheid struggle.
Borrowed Children
Author: George Lyon
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1999-09-23
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780813109725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHaving been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her background.
A Fire in Her Bones
Author: Dorothy Rosen
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe biography of the woman who founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, helping to usher in a new era for women.
Many-Storied House
Author: George Ella Lyon
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 0813142768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn in the small, eastern Kentucky coal-mining town of Harlan, George Ella Lyon began her career with Mountain, a chapbook of poems. She has since published many more books in multiple genres and for readers of all ages, but poetry remains at the heart of her work. Many-Storied House is her fifth collection. While teaching aspiring writers, Lyon asked her students to write a poem based on memories rooted in a house where they had lived. Working on the assignment herself, Lyon began a personal journey, writing many poems for each room. In this intimate book, she strives to answer lingering questions about herself and her family: "Here I stand, at the beginning," she writes in the opening lines of the volume, "with more questions than / answers." Collectively, the poems tell the sixty-eight-year-long story of the house, beginning with its construction by Lyon's grandfather and culminating with the poet's memories of bidding farewell to it after her mother's death. Moving, provocative, and heartfelt, Lyon's poetic excavations evoke more than just stock and stone; they explore the nature of memory and relationships, as well as the innermost architecture of love, family, and community. A poignant memoir in poems, Many-Storied House is a personal and revealing addition to George Ella Lyon's body of work.
A Dinosaur Named Ruth
Author: Julia Lyon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1534474633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor fans of Shark Lady and from the New York Times bestselling illustrator of Dr. Fauci comes the incredible true story of a girl who discovered dinosaur bones in her own backyard and, after years of persistence, helped uncover one of the most exciting paleontological discoveries of our time. There’s an extraordinary secret hidden just beneath Ruth Mason’s feet. The year is 1905, and Ruth is a prairie girl living in South Dakota. She has no way of knowing that millions of years ago, her family farm was once home to scores of dinosaurs. Until one day, when Ruth starts finding clues to the past: strange rocks and rubble scattered all across her land. They’re dinosaur fossils—but she doesn’t know that yet, either. It will take many years of collecting these clues, and many, many questions, but Ruth’s curiosity will one day help uncover thousands of fossils all across her land. New York Times bestselling illustrator Alexandra Bye’s vibrant illustrations bring to life this inspiring and exciting debut picture book from award-winning journalist Julia Lyon.
