The Follinglo Dog Book

2010-09-13 History

Author : Peder Gustav Tjernal
Release : 2010-09-13
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Follinglo Dog Book by : Peder Gustav Tjernal

Download or read book The Follinglo Dog Book written by Peder Gustav Tjernal. This book was released on 2010-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving in Iowa in what was still the age of wooden equipment and animal power, the Tjernagels witnessed each successive revolution on the land. They built homes and barns, cultivated the land, and encountered every manner of natural disaster from prairie fires to blizzards. And, of course, there are the dogs who shepherd, protect, and even baby-sit the residents of Follinglo Farm.

The Follinglo Dog Book

1966 Dogs

Author : Peder Gustav Tjernagel
Release : 1966
Genre : Dogs
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Download or read book The Follinglo Dog Book written by Peder Gustav Tjernagel. This book was released on 1966. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Town Square

2004-05-17 Reference

Author : Robert R. Archibald
Release : 2004-05-17
Genre : Reference
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Book Rating : 63X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The New Town Square written by Robert R. Archibald. This book was released on 2004-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lyrical volume Robert R. Archibald explores a growing crisis of modern America: the dissolution of place that leads to a dangerous rupture of community. Community_born historically within the collective space of the town square where citizens come together to share stories and make meaning of their common histories_is dissipating as Americans are increasingly isolated from that shared space and are being submerged into an individualistic consumer monoculture with disregard for the common good. This volume examines how public history museums and historians can help restore community by offering a source of identity for people and their places, becoming a wellspring of community and an incubator of democracy, a consciousness of connection with a responsibility to those in our past and future. The New Town Square offers its readers a space to understand and celebrate the shared space of community, and is a vital resource for public historians and those interested in restoring the meaning of community.

This Vast Book of Nature

2009-11 Business & Economics

Author : Pavel Cenkl
Release : 2009-11
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book This Vast Book of Nature written by Pavel Cenkl. This book was released on 2009-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Vast Book of Nature is a careful, engaging, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire---and, by implication, other wild places---have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers from the post-Revolutionary era to the days of high tourism at the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on tourist brochures, travel accounts, pictorial representations, fiction and poetry, local histories, journals, and newspapers, Pavel Cenkl gauges how Americans have arranged space for political and economic purposes and identified it as having value beyond the economic. Starting with an exploration of Jeremy Belknap’s 1784 expedition to Mount Washington, which Cenkl links to the origins of tourism in the White Mountains, to the transformation of touristic and residential relationships to landscape, This Vast Book of Nature explores the ways competing visions of the landscape have transformed the White Mountains culturally and physically, through settlement, development, and---most recently---preservation, a process that continues today.

Land of Promise, Land of Tears

2012-01-05 Fiction

Author : Jerry L. Twedt
Release : 2012-01-05
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Land of Promise, Land of Tears written by Jerry L. Twedt. This book was released on 2012-01-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1869 and Ole and Helena Branjord are Norwegian immigrants attempting to make a new life on forty acres of central Iowa farmland. Ole is a kind, gentle man who questions his ability to provide for his family. Helena is pining for a real house, but has sadly learned through her past experiences that promises, no matter how sincere, are never certain. But Ole has lofty dreams to prove all the naysayers wrong and double his farmstead. The Branjord children each possess talents and challenges. Eleven-year-old Oline loves music. Martin is intelligent beyond his eight years. Four-year-old Berent wants to wear pants instead of the dresses Norwegian custom dictates he don every day. Populating the Branjords world are other immigrants that include a giant, strong man who can make a violin sing; a Civil War veteran with disfiguring physical scars; and members of the local Lutheran church determined to save their congregation. But among all the good is one enemy from Helenas past who wants nothing more than to destroy the Branjords. Twedts well-researched novel deserves to be awarded a place next to Rolvaag's work on the book shelves of home, public, and college libraries. It is apparent that Twedt has devoted many years to perfecting his craft as a storyteller. Brad Steiger

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