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Author : Linda Hager Pack
Release : 2009-10-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 565/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A is for Appalachia by : Linda Hager Pack
Download or read book A is for Appalachia written by Linda Hager Pack. This book was released on 2009-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabet book featuring words about Appalachian culture, plus additional stories and facts, a glossary, and a list of places to visit in the region.
Author : Linda Hager Pack
Release : 2013-03-22
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 052/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Appalachian Toys and Games from A to Z by : Linda Hager Pack
Download or read book Appalachian Toys and Games from A to Z written by Linda Hager Pack. This book was released on 2013-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author and the illustrator of A is for Appalachia! The Alphabet Book of Appalachian Heritage comes a beautiful new book that will delight readers of all ages. Appalachian Toys and Games from A to Z celebrates a time when fun was powered by imagination and creativity rather than by batteries and electricity. From apple dolls (carefully molded from summer apples) to whimmydiddles (whirligig toys carved from sticks gathered in the forest), children will be inspired by a world of interesting nineteenth-century activities and toys while they learn about Appalachian heritage and the ABCs. Author Linda Hager Pack interweaves detailed descriptions of these entertainments with anecdotes, songs, and folktales. Pat Banks's vibrant watercolors bring these cherished pastimes to life. This book will inform and inspire young readers and will remind adults of simpler times when they played outside with siblings and friends, making their own fun. Nostalgic and lavishly illustrated, Appalachian Toys and Games from A to Z is a great read for anyone interested in the region's rich history and culture.
Author : Cynthia Rylant
Release : 1998
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 931/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Appalachia by : Cynthia Rylant
Download or read book Appalachia written by Cynthia Rylant. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and illustrations explore the countryside and people of Appalachia.
Author : John Alexander Williams
Release : 2003-04-03
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 522/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Appalachia by : John Alexander Williams
Download or read book Appalachia written by John Alexander Williams. This book was released on 2003-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as both the essence of America and a place apart. Williams begins his story in the colonial era and describes the half-century of bloody warfare as migrants from Europe and their American-born offspring fought and eventually displaced Appalachia's Native American inhabitants. He depicts the evolution of a backwoods farm-and-forest society, its divided and unhappy fate during the Civil War, and the emergence of a new industrial order as railroads, towns, and extractive industries penetrated deeper and deeper into the mountains. Finally, he considers Appalachia's fate in the twentieth century, when it became the first American region to suffer widespread deindustrialization, and examines the partial renewal created by federal intervention and a small but significant wave of in-migration. Throughout the book, a wide range of Appalachian voices enlivens the analysis and reminds us of the importance of storytelling in the ways the people of Appalachia define themselves and their region.
Author : Grace Toney Edwards
Release : 2006
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 595/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Handbook to Appalachia by : Grace Toney Edwards
Download or read book A Handbook to Appalachia written by Grace Toney Edwards. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to Appalachia provides a clear, concise first step toward understanding the expanding field of Appalachian studies, from the history of the area to its sometimes conflicted image, from its music and folklore to its outstanding literature. Also includes information on African Americans, Asheville, (North Carolina), ballads, baskets, bluegrass music, blues music, Cherokee Indians, Cincinnati (Ohio), Churches, Civil War, coal, cultural diversity, death, folk culture, food, Georgia, health, immigration, industry, Irish, Kentucky, Midwest, migration, Melungeons, Native Americans, North Carolina, out-migration, politics, population, poverty, Radford University, schools, Scotch-Irish, Scotland, South Carolina, storytelling, strip mining, Tennessee, Ulster Scots, Virginia, West Virginia, Women, etc.
