Welcome to Felicity's World, 1774

Welcome to Felicity's World, 1774

Author: Catherine Gourley

Publisher: American Girl

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13:

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Provides an in-depth look at daily life and historical events in the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, including home life, work, medicine, and play.


Meet Felicity

Meet Felicity

Author: Valerie Tripp

Publisher: Perfection Learning

Published: 1991-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780780708952

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Meet Felicity, a spunky, spritely nine-year-old girl who lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1774, just before the Revolutionary War. American Girls Collection/Felicity #1.


Welcome to Samantha's World, 1904

Welcome to Samantha's World, 1904

Author: Catherine Gourley

Publisher: Amer Girl Pub

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9781562477721

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Take an in-depth look at life for girls and women in America in 1904, featuring city and town life, social reform, new inventions, amusements and more. Lavishly illustrated spreads feature historical photos, cutaway scenes and fascinating facts. Color illustrations throughout.


Oakhurst

Oakhurst

Author: Paula DiPerna

Publisher: Walker

Published: 2002-04-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780802713711

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Golf formally came to America in 1884. Russell Montague—a thirty-two-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer—had moved to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, to improve his health. His Scottish neighbors, George Grant and Alexander and Roderick MacLeod, were also men of leisure. When Grant’s golf-obsessed nephew Lionel Torin arrived from Ceylon, these five built, purely for their own pleasure, a nine-hole course on Montague’s land—unaware that it was the first course in the United States, and tenuously launching what has arguably become America’s most popular sport. Oakhurst tells the memorable story of this historic course, from its birth and brief first life of fifteen years to its miraculous restoration 110 years later. Weaving the lives of the founders through a fascinating history of golf, the evolution of its equipment, and the genesis of course design, Paula DiPerna and Vikki Keller recount colorful stories of early matches that astonished local residents, who thought the founders mad: “It may be a fine game for a canny Scotchman, but no American will ever play it except Montague,” one opined. Some sixty years after Oakhurst had fallen into neglect, legendary local golfer Sam Snead gave it new life, convincing his friend Lewis Keller to buy the land. Their dream of restoring the course was realized in 1994, when Keller and noted golf architect Bob Cupp—relying on scant clues, and intuition—unearthed the dormant holes one by one. As Lee Trevino, Tom Watson, and many others who have played the course discovered, only period equipment (hickory-shafted clubs, gutta-percha balls) is allowed, and nineteenth-century rules prevail—making Oakhurst the only place in America where anyone can experience the game as it was first played. It is an important chapter in sports history, a nostalgic piece of Americana, and Oakhurst brings its magic alive.


An Introduction to Williamsburg

An Introduction to Williamsburg

Author: Valerie Tripp

Publisher: Pleasantry Press, Incorporated

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780932407009

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"Published in cooperation with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation."


Everything I Need to Know I Learned From American Girl

Everything I Need to Know I Learned From American Girl

Author: American Girl Editors

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-04-29

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 1683371828

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Take a peek into the past for wise and witty advice from the American Girls. Over the centuries, these girls have faced everything from brothers to bullies to boiled turnips. Their experiences have taught us how to survive and thrive. They've also taught us what it means to be a girl in any era: reach high, dream big, and speak out for what you believe in. With classic illustrations and memorable story moments, this book is a treasure for every American girl.


A Smart Girl's Guide to Knowing What to Say

A Smart Girl's Guide to Knowing What to Say

Author: Patti Kelley Criswell

Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781593697723

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Help girls find the right words to fit more than 200 situations! With the advice in this latest addition to the Smart Girl's Guide series, girls will learn smart words to choose when stressed, shy, sad, or facing other awkward moments. Girls can ask a teacher for help. Stand up to a bully. Express sympathy for the loss of a loved one. Plus, the tools, tips, techniques, (and actual words!) will help girls untangle their tongues and speak out with confidence and grace.


Samantha's Cookbook

Samantha's Cookbook

Author: Jodi Evert

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780613120609

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Presents recipes for cream of carrot soup, corn oysters, cream cheese and walnut sandwiches, and other commonly eaten foods of the early nineteenth century, and offers tips for planning a tea party


Felicity Learns a Lesson

Felicity Learns a Lesson

Author: Valerie Tripp

Publisher: Paw Prints

Published: 2008-11-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781439569313

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While learning to be a polite lady, Felicity makes friends with Elizabeth, an English girl, but their friendship is threatened when Felicity's father decides to boycott tea


Sketches of the History of Man, in Two Volumes

Sketches of the History of Man, in Two Volumes

Author: Lord Henry Home Kames

Publisher:

Published: 1774

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13:

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"The following work is the substance of various speculations, that occasionally amused the author, and enlivened his leisure-hours. It is not intended for the learned; they are above it: nor for the vulgar; they are below it. It is intended for men, who, equally removed from the corruption of opulence, and from the depression of bodily labour, are bent on useful knowledge; who, even in the delirium of youth, feel the dawn of patriotism, and who in riper years enjoy its meridian warmth. To such men this work is dedicated; and that they may profit by it, is the author's ardent wish, and probably will be while any spirit remains in him to form a wish"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).