Lokale Geschichte

"Vielleicht täusche ich mich, doch habe das Gefu¿hl, dass in der Fotografie etwas verku¿mmert, das man den Geisteszustand des betrachteten Bildes nennen kann. Ich las die Worte des verstorbenen bekannten Reporters und Autors Ryszard Kapus¿cin¿ski: "Die Menschen schlagen sich, schreien, kommen um, kämpfen ums U¿berleben, täglich sehen wir uns das an. Unser Vorstellungsvermo¿gen aber ist gelähmt. Um es zu beleben, beno¿tigen wir eines Moments der Stille. Dann gelänge es uns vielleicht aufzufinden, was wir bis dahin nicht wahrzunehmen vermochten ..." Eben diese "innegehaltene" Betrachtung, auf der Mitte des Wegs zu meinem Geist verweilend, ist wohl das Wesen der Philosophie der von Timm Stu¿tz angebotenen Kunst-Fotografie." (Kunstfotograf Kritik Publizist Jerzy Lewczyn¿ski (1924-2014) Gliwice) - "Timm Stu¿tz versteht den Menschen, welchen er auf seinen Arbeiten zeigt, ausgezeichnet. Der Autor begleitet den anderen Menschen durch sein Objektiv. Ko¿rpersprache, Gesten, Mimik verschiedenster Lebenssituationen, die sich ereignen ko¿nnen, beobachtet Timm Stu¿tz ungewo¿hnlich genau. Diese Beobachtung erlaubt dem Betrachter mittels der Fotografie sich in die jeweilige Situation der Personen hineinzuversetzen. Gemeinsam mit ihnen entsteht das Bedu¿rfnis teilzunehmen, auf die Uhr zu schauen wie die zwei Frauen im Park von Venedig dies tun, gemeinsam mit den Mädchen in der Straßenbahn in Rom zu lachen, nachzusehen wer fru¿hmorgens hinter einem Vorhang versteckt eine Zigarette raucht. Auf den Spuren der Worte McCullins "Fotografie hat nichts mit Schauen, sondern mit Gefu¿hl zu tun. Wenn Du nichts fu¿hlst von dem, was Du siehst, dann wird es Dir nicht gelingen, Menschen, die Deine Fotos anschauen, dazu zu bringen irgend etwas zu empfinden." Ich bin u¿berzeugt, dass Timm Stu¿tz die ihn umgebende Welt hervorragend spu¿rt, was dieses humanistische Dokument beweist." (Arkadiusz Lawrywianiec Präses ZPAF Katowice) - "Im Zeitalter der digitalen Fotografie erhalten die einmal von Robert Frank geäußerten Worte eine neue Bedeutung: "Fotografie ist eine zugleich einfache wie auch schwierige Kunst und desto schwieriger je länger und verantwortungsvoller wir sie kultivieren." Timm Stu¿tz beschäftigt sich seit vielen Jahren mit der Fotografie und geho¿rt nach meiner Meinung zu den verantwortungsvollen Fotografen. Sein fotografisches Schaffen ist weder inszeniert noch verfremdet und durch und durch ehrlich. Sie ist ehrlich in der Bearbeitung und "minimalistisch" und der Idee des "entscheidenden Moments" des franzo¿sischen Jahrhundert-Fotografen H. C. Bresson eng verbunden. Sie ist scheinbar einfach aber immer mit einer Wertzugabe wodurch die Fotografie die Form eines Essays annimmt. Einfachheit ist entgegen allem Anschein nicht leicht zu erreichen. Das Schaffen Timm Stu¿tz' kommt den Ansichten des amerikanischen Kritikers und Schriftstellers James Agee nahe, der 1945 schrieb: ,Die Aufgabe des Ku¿nstlers ist nicht die Welt, so wie sie sein Auge sieht, in eine Welt der ästhetischen Wirklichkeit zu verändern, sondern das Bemerken einer ästhetischen Wirklichkeit der realen Welt und die Schaffung eines makellosen und getreuen Moments, in dem das kreative Wirken seinen deutlichsten Ausdruck der Kristallisation erreicht.'" (Kunstfotograf Andrzej Graba-Grabowiecki, STF Szczecin)

Provides a fascinating and in-depth look into the life, career and legacy of one of the most important New Yorkers of the Gilded Age.

Long Island's longest-tenured winemaker weighs in on what makes the North Fork so unique for fine wine production.

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A reprint of the 1877 publication of Israel Ward Andrews' centennial historical address from 1876. Following a review of Washington County's role in the early settlement of Ohio is an appendix listing the civil officers. This includes judges of the territory and common pleas, members of congress, state assemblymen, Marietta postmasters and other county officers.

Before man by dams and bridges conquered the might of the Red River, this potent boundary line between Texas and Oklahoma was a powerful force in the destinies of towns and their pioneer builders. In its rich valley lay the nucleus for great cities and large fortunes. It took a strong breed of people and communities to withstand nature's onslaughts-the sort of people about whom legends are bound to spring. Herein, gathered and recounted are stories of early Denison, Sherman, Paris, Bonham, Clarksville, Caddo Lake, and other Red River Valley places and people. These tales of northeast Texas, fraught with both beauty and danger, are indeed stranger and more entertaining than fiction.

In 1824, Boston was a small farming community, about twenty-five miles south of Buffalo, New York. Buffalo itself was still only considered a village with a population of just over two thousand people. It was a hard life in that time where families tried to eke out a meager living selling their crops and growing their own fruits and vegetables to be canned and preserved for the long hard winters. They were a God-fearing community who gathered on Sundays in a neighbor's home to hear the visiting preacher who traveled from town to town until churches could be built for congregations. But just as in our world today, not everyone grows up to be honest and respectful. The three Thayer brothers moved to Boston with their parents and quickly became known as drunkards and ne'er-do-wells. When a Great Lakes seaman by the name of John Love needed a place to stay for the winter while the lakes were frozen over, they offered him room and board for a price. He didn't plan on the ultimate price that he had to pay.When the brothers' crops were not successful, they asked Love for a cash loan to make ends meet. Love was glad to help out his newfound friends. But they never planned on paying him back. Instead, they planned to murder him and hide his body.This was an important time in Western New York; the area was growing in population, and the Industrial Revolution was making life and work easier. The building of the Erie Canal, which traveled from Albany to Buffalo, was one of the engineering marvels of the time and, after many years of labor, opened in Buffalo in 1825.The story builds to the actual murder, arrest, and trial of the three brothers and ends with their eventual hangings in the Buffalo village square in 1825 attended by a crowd that was estimated at the time to be over twenty thousand people.

Encompassing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, Grand Portage National Monument in Minnesota, and Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, the Quetico-Superior is the only region of its kind in the U.S. and Canada. This book tells the story of the long campaign to secure and preserve it for posterity and also illustrates the development of an American idea-wilderness preservation.

Who are these new Mainers, and why have they come here? They are from war-torn countries such as Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Cambodia; from poor Latin American nations; and from economically vibrant places like Hong Kong, India, and Europe¿in other words, from across the global spectrum.

2014 war ein erstes Buch zu diesem Thema fertig geworden, seit 2020 ist es im Handel: "Geld und Preise in der DDR - Was bekamen wir für unser Geld?". Kein anderes Buch widmet sich so intensiv dem Thema Preise und der ganzen Breite der Ausgaben. Die Resonanz im Bekanntenkreis war sehr gut, alle steuerten Dokumente und Erinnerungsstücke bei. Also ging die Beschäftigung mit dem Thema weiter. Es wurde um neue Aspekte erweitert, um "Stipendium" und "Rente" als Einstieg in das Gebiet der Einkommen, ergänzt um Lohnstreifen, Lohnsteuern und SV-Beitrag. Außerdem wurde das Thema zeitlich nach "vorn" erweitert, um die Abschnitte zur Währungsreform 1948, zum Geldumtausch 1957, zu Wohnungsbau-Obligationen ab Ende der 1950er Jahre. Mit der ebenfalls behandelten Abschaffung der Lebensmittelkarten 1958 war auch eine umfassende Preisreform verbunden, viele der bis zum Ende der DDR gültigen Preise wurden damals festgelegt.Ein ebenfalls umfangreicher und sehr interessanter Abschnitt beschäftigt sich mit dem Hauskauf, dem dazu gehörigen Kredit und den notwendigen Handwerkerleistungen. Die zusammengestellten Handwerkerrechnungen machen den ungeheuren bürokratischen Aufwand deutlich, der mit dem Festhalten an konstanten Preisen für die Bevölkerung trotz steigender Material- und Personalkosten verbunden war. Der "rote Faden" wird im zweiten Teil durch das Thema "Preise" gebildet. Ein Ausweis der über lange Zeit konstant gehaltenen Preise sind die vielen heute noch vorhandenen Sachzeugen aus Kunststoff oder Metall mit "eingeprägtem" Preis. Mit vielen Dingen sind zusätzliche Erinnerungen verknüpft. Das betrifft beispielsweise Werbung / Propaganda auf Rechnungen oder das Ausfuhrverbot für hochwertige Konsumgüter. Oder einfach auch die Veränderung von Gepflogenheiten - kommt der Gasmann jeden Monat und kassiert den fälligen Beitrag oder werden Monatspauschalen vom Konto abgebucht?

A complete account of the decisive Battle of San Jacinto which wrested the independence of the state of Texas from Mexican control.Drawing its title from Edward Creasy's "Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World," this book argues that the American victory at San Jacinto changed the future history of all of North America. The 1836 battle, which saw the Mexican president Santa Anna and his army driven out of what was to become the state of Mexico and parts of at least four other US states certainly changed the course of American history, as the author asserts.Set against the backdrop of the defense of the Alamo by William Travis, and the subsequent Mexican massacre of American prisoners at Goliad, this work tells the story of the forty fateful days between the retreat from Gonzales and the epic battle at Lynchburg, now called San Jacinto."Had the Mexican Commander consolidated his forces, the battle of San Jacinto could not have been won by the Patriot Army. Had he carefully selected his camp site and kept a diligent watch, the thin line of seven hundred and twenty odd infantry which surprised his camp in the mid-afternoon could not have reached the crest of the hill . . . Had he won, the Texas settlements would have been wiped out and Mexican supremacy would have been re-established north and east of the Rio Grande. The Anti-Slavery sentiment in the northern States was so opposed to the acquisition of more territory in which the spread of slavery was feared, that these States would have been allies of Mexico against further Southern aggression."This new edition has been completely reset, contains the entire text and all 41 original illustrations. In addition, it contains two new appendices providing a Mexican account of the battle, and of an eye-witness account of the massacre at Goliad which preceded the battle.

Coming to Buffalo as a young man with a background as an itinerant printer¿s apprentice, newspaper reporter, and popular lecturer, Twain began his brief but impactful tenure at the Buffalo Express in 1869. One of his first decisions as managing editor was to accompany each of his Saturday feature stories with an illustration. But the sketches didn¿t stop there. For more than a century, illustrators have kept coming back to Twain¿s original Express stories to add their own drawings to the humorist¿s legacy. The Illustrated Mark Twain and the Buffalo Express collects ten feature stories published by Twain in the Buffalo Express during his year-long tenure at the publication, accompanied by illustrations drawn by five artists over a span of nearly 115 years alongside insightful analysis from author and Twain scholar Thomas J. Reigstad. There is the drawing by Twain himself, created in 1870; originals by Express staff artist John Harrison Mills in the fall of 1969; and those featured alongside his Express stories by his favorite contemporary illustrator, True Williams, who would be the principal illustrator of Twain¿s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Sketches, New and Old. This book also includes 10 humorous illustrations created by Pulitzer Prize¿winning cartoonist Tom Toles for a 1978 Buffalo Courier-ExpressSunday Magazine series reprinted here for the first time, as well as a cartoon drawn in 1983 for the Mark Twain Journal by Bill Watterson, the cartoonist and author of the comic strip ¿Calvin and Hobbes.¿ Finally, this volume contains two 21st-century caricatures of Twain, one as he looked in his early 30s in Buffalo and a second of him decades later as a literary lion, drawn by cartoonist Adam Zyglis ¿ another Pulitzer Prize-winner ¿ for the Buffalo News. Ranging from his first impression of Niagara Falls to the deteriorating condition of a cemetery in his Buffalo neighborhood, to more satirical statements on the state of American journalism, Twain¿s Buffalo Express stories from 1869 and 1870 stand the test of time. But their entertainment value is vastly increased when coupled with visual interpretations provided by talented illustrators (including Twain himself) of yesterday and today.

The unusual lives of 41 unique Montanans are profiled in Montana Eccentrics: A Collection of Extraordinary Montanans, Past & Present. The characters range from the world famous to the almost unknown, from opera singers to saddle makers, and from world-changing inventors to comic innovators. Many names are familiar to Montanans, but many of these eccentrics have never before been profiled. Even Montanans who are well versed in Montana history will be surprised by some of the remarkable characters who sprang from the state and by the exceptional, little-known free spirits who still live here.

Nashville: Gateway to the South is a unique, thorough, and up-to-date guide to every part of the city. Highlighted are its educational institutions, commerce, music and entertainment, clubs, restaurants, theaters, performance halls, listening rooms, honky-tonks, history, and many annual fairs, shows, and exhibitions.

A celebration of the unique history and character of religion in Tennessee, from the earliest pioneer days to the present, Faithful Volunteers covers the state's spiritual topography from a nonsectarian viewpoint. More than just a history of religion, it puts religious events into their proper cultural contexts.

It was a battle to control an emerging Los Angeles, fought by gangsters, pimps, vice lords, crooked politicians, and cops. As in a war-ravaged city, bodies dotted the town like discarded trash.For five decades, Los Angeles was a city overtaken by greed, ranging from the mayor's office to the gangster's and vice lord's passion for adding to their empires. Standing in their way was LAPD. While some chiefs went for the easy money, others stood their ground and fought back.Fueling the situation was Prohibition, that made criminals out of half the population. Underlying this was the Great Depression, which stole the soles of Americans. Struggling against these conditions were a handful of chiefs that would make a difference. Read about these confrontations and how they transformed the LAPD from a corrupt department into one of the premier law enforcement agencies in the world.From the best-selling author of Guardians of Angles: A History of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Dechbetten und Ziegetsdorf waren beschauliche Dörfer mit zahlreichen Bauernhöfen, etlichen Geschäften und einigen größeren Betrieben. 1938 wurden die beiden Dörfer zusammen mit Großprüfening nach Regensburg eingemeindet. Zwischen den Orten lag das herrschaftliche Gut Königswiesen, das in den 70er Jahren der fortschreitenden Bebauung durch Hochhäuser weichen musste. Einschneidend war der Bau der Autobahn mitten durch die Dörfer. Gabriele Deml und Fritz Rehbach sammelten wie schon bei ihrem ersten Buch "Großprüfening. Das Dorf im Stadtwesten - damals und heute" zahlreiche Bilder und Geschichten, sprachen mit den Einheimischen und recherchierten in den Archiven. Mit ihrem Buch möchten sie Erinnerungen bewahren: an Häuser, an Ereignisse, an Menschen.

The history of the Louisiana Purchase: The greatest land deal in history!Do you know the WHOLE story about the Louisiana Purchase? From the first Europeans and Native Americans to its purchase from France and first explorations? Some people thought it cost too much and was too much land, while others saw it as the future of the United States. Who was right? Did France even have the right to sell the Louisiana Territory to the US? How did the Louisiana Territory go from being a vast wilderness to the central states? How did things end up the way they are today?In this book, you will learn about the following:Louisiana Territory under Spanish rule, French rule, and then as part of the United StatesThe reason the Louisiana Purchase happenedGreat explorers like Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Zebulon PikeGreat leaders like Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson, and William C.C. ClaiborneThe conspiracy of a former vice president to conquer LouisianaThe top-ranking general who was also a spyThe real story behind SacagaweaHow Louisiana and Missouri became states and why it was so controversialHow the Louisiana Purchase played a role in the Trail of Tears and the Civil WarHow an enslaved person became an important explorer of the American West

As a boy raised in rural Germany, Thomas Clay enjoyed the quiet farm life but dreamed of someday traveling to the Great America. Now as a teen, still grieving his father's death, he's faced with not only running the vineyard but also growing the family business to include tobacco and coffee imports. He plans a grand voyage to America and Panama, and just months before his ship is set to depart, he falls madly in love.Beautiful and compassionate Elizabeth Klein works in the clothing shop when she is not nursing her ill parents. She is smitten with Thomas from the beginning, and among Thomas's family grapevines, the young lovers promise to marry as soon as Thomas's ship returns.That single promise sets in motion a sixteen-year, world-traversing saga that neither of them bargained for. Shipwreck, heartbreak, hope, enslavement, gold, and war lie ahead as Thomas and Elizabeth wonder if they'll ever see each other again.Voyage of No Return is a tale of resilience and love against all odds, from the River Rhine in Germany to the River of No Return in Idaho.

Minnesota and Dacotah by C. C. Andrews has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.