Lokale Geschichte

Stockbridge, Massachusetts, a small town located in the southern portion of Berkshire County, has a varied and fascinating history. Some of which are found in the form of monuments, plaques, and markers that honor the events and people that helped shape the town into what it has become today. This book is a compilation of those monuments, plaques, and markers, and the history behind them.2

Spectacular scenery. Intriguing history. Home to renowned artists, musicians, film makers, actors and authors. Bucks County beckons. Carl LaVO, award-winning journalist, takes the reader on another journey through some of the most interesting, scenic and historic spots in his second volume of Bucks County Adventures.From the famous like the Marquis de Lafayette's emotional farewell tour of Bucks to the place where Ben Franklin flew his famous kite in Bensalem. Along the way you'll visit interesting, obscure and rather odd sites, each with its own history to tell. Like the grandest estate ever built in the county, and the Upper Bucks village where the sun seldom shines.If you are looking for a guide to the county's wonders, want to read about its historic places and people, or just enjoy beautiful photography, you'll find Vol. 2 of Bucks County Adventures the book for you.

Nowhere in the United States did the Age of Democratic Revolution exert as profound an influence as in New Orleans. In 1809-10, refugees of the Haitian Revolution doubled the size of the city. In 1811, hundreds of Saint-Dominguan, African, and Louisianan plantation workers marched downriver toward the city in the nation's largest-ever slave revolt. Itinerant revolutionaries from throughout the Atlantic congregated in New Orleans in the cause of Latin American independence. Together with the refugee soldiers of the Haitian Revolution (both Black and white), their presence proved decisive in the Battle of New Orleans. After defeating the British, the soldiers rejoined the struggle against Spanish imperialism. In Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775-1877, Caryn Cossé Bell sets forth these momentous events and much more to document the revolutionary era's impact on the city. Bell's study begins with the 1883 memoir of Hélène d'Aquin Allain, a French Creole and descendant of the refugee community, who grew up in antebellum New Orleans. Allain's d'Aquin forebears fought alongside the Savarys, a politically influential free family of color, in the Haitian Revolution. Forced from Saint-Domingue/Haiti, the allied families retreated to New Orleans. Bell's reconstruction of the d'Aquin family network, interracial alliances, and business partnerships provides a productive framework for exploring the city's presence at the crossroads of the revolutionary Atlantic. Residing in New Orleans in the heyday of French Romanticism, Allain experienced a cultural revolution that exerted an enormous influence on religious beliefs, literature, politics, and even, as Bell documents, the practice of medicine in the city. In France, the highly politicized nature of the movement culminated in the 1848 French Revolution with its abolition of slavery and enfranchisement of freed men and women. During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Afro-Creole leaders of the diasporic community pointed to events in France and stood in the forefront of the struggle to revolutionize race relations in their own nation. As Bell demonstrates, their cultural and political legacy remains a formidable presence in twenty-first-century New Orleans.

The Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arising out of the multiple, often incompatible uses created throughout the twentieth century, these struggles reveal the tension inherent within the multiple use concept, a management philosophy that promises equitable access to the region's resources and economic gain to those who live there.Multiple use was originally conceived as a way to legitimize the historical use of public lands for grazing without precluding future uses, such as outdoor recreation, weapons development, and wildlife management. It was applied to the Great Basin to bring the region, once seen as worthless, into the national economic fold. Land managers, ranchers, mining interests, wilderness and wildlife advocates, outdoor recreationists, and even the military adopted this ideology to accommodate, promote, and sanction a multitude of activities on public lands, particularly those overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. Some of these uses are locally driven and others are nationally mandated, but all have exacted a cost from the region's human and natural environment.In The Size of the Risk, Leisl Carr Childers shows how different constituencies worked to fill the presumed "empty space" of the Great Basin with a variety of land-use regimes that overlapped, conflicted, and ultimately harmed the environment and the people who depended on the region for their livelihoods. She looks at the conflicts that arose from the intersection of an ever-increasing number of activities, such as nuclear testing and wild horse preservation, and how Great Basin residents have navigated these conflicts.Carr Childers's study of multiple use in the Great Basin highlights the complex interplay between the state, society, and the environment, allowing us to better understand the ongoing reality of living in the American West.

This book traces the descendants of Nicholas Ackley in the fifth through the eighth generations in Oswego County, NY: Lot West Ackley, Arthur William Ackley, and Frank A. Ackley and this children. In addition to the Ackley paternal line, the ancestry of as much of the maternal line as possible is traced: Taylor, Matteson, Donovan and Wessels. Included are details such as maps, census data, obituaries, and family trees and photographs. The stories are set in historical context to better understand the lives of these families.

Michigan Time Capsule (2023) is a nonfiction collection of sixty-two of my best Fornology.com blog posts written between 2012 and 2022. The original posts were revised for inclusion in this collection, which is a sequel to my last book Detroit Time Capsule (2022).Most chapters cover Michigan people and places, some famous and others infamous. Other chapters have a broader scope but deserve to be in a "best of" collection. This anthology can be read cover to cover, or each chapter can be read independently with no narrative thread binding one to the other.

Colossal military blunders, home invasion and kidnapping, animal cruelty, theft by trusted servants, family members quarreling over inheritances. Headlines in today's news? Perhaps, but they were also part of life in colonial Beverly.

Kaibeto MemoriesELIZABETH ANNE JONES DEWVEALLA trader's daughter remembers growing upon the Navajo Reservation at Kaibeto Trading Postin remote northern Arizona1936 - 1960TRADERS TO THE NAVAJORALPH AND JULIA JONES, parents of author Elizabeth Anne JonesDewveall, operated the Kaibeto Trading Post on the Navajo Reservation for28 years, from 1934 to 1962, in remote northern Arizona. Theirs was a timewhen roads in the area were more like paths in the sand, over rocky ridges--snow-covered in winter, and across washes that could and did becomeflash floods without warning. TheNative population was transitioningfrom horseback and wagon travelto pickups. The post's role was toprovide goods that were needed bythe local population to supplementthe meager resources this harshland could provide. Canned fruitsand meats were important articles,as were tobacco, knives, andammunition. The Natives tradedsheep hides, wool, woven blankets,and turquoise-laden silver jewelry forgoods from the post. Their jewelryoften was provided as collateral,"pawn", to pay for purchases. Ralphand Julia and daughter Elizabeth Anne were often the only people of their"white-person" race in the entire region.It was in this environment that this book's author Elizabeth Anne livedher childhood years. Her playmates were often from the local population.In her later childhood years her school times were spent in distant Leuppor Winslow, Arizona, but coming back to what she calls, affectionately it isbelieved, the "Rez" for holidays and summer vacations.Told as an adult in the year 2020 while living at Mesa, Arizona, ElizabethAnne points out her purpose in recording her story is more for it to beher parents' story, for there is scant recorded material about their lives atKaibeto Trading Post and how they operated this out-of-the-way and nowhistoricpost for many years as a life-hub for a receptive Native population.

This is not your ordinary cookbook but rather a storybook along with a healthy dose of culinary adventure sprinkled throughout like little gems. Each chapter highlights a charming look back at an Adirondack site, or camp, and the people associated with it, from the 1890s to recent times, and ends with appealing recipes. In each chapter someone bakes or cooks something that fits into the story and then that recipe is given at the end.

Memoirs of an American Lady; With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the Revolution, 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.

Zum letzten Mal fand der Brauch des Haberfeldtreibens vor hundert Jahren in der Nacht vom 23. auf den 24. September 1922 in Dettendorf bei Bad Aibling statt. So wundert es nicht, dass selbst Einheimische nichts oder wenig über diese frühe Form der "Volksjustiz" wissen, die immer mehr im eigenen Mythos versinkt.Elmar Schieder räumt mit allen um den alten Rügebrauch entstandenen Legenden und Unwahrheiten auf - denn die tatsächlichen Ereignisse sind spannender als jede Haberfeld-Mär. Anhand von verschiedenen Treiben, die sich vor allem gegen Frauen und ihre angeblichen "sittlichen Verfehlungen" richteten, wird aufgezeigt, wie dieser Brauch ursprünglich vonstattenging, wie er sich immer wieder in Wesen und Erscheinungsform verändert hat und wie die Gendarmerie und die Landgerichte versuchten, ihm Einhalt zu gebieten. Begleitet von einmaligem historischem Fotomaterial entsteht ein besonderes Bild vom bäuerlichen Leben im oberbayerischen Alpenvorland zwischen Isar und Inn.

Das alte Floridsdorf Der Historiker Matthias Marschik präsentiert rund 160 zumeist unveröffentlichte historische Aufnahmen, die zu einer spannenden Zeitreise in das alte Floridsdorf einladen. Die einzigartigen Bilder dokumentieren dasn Leben, Arbeiten und den Alltag der Menschen in bewegten Zeiten. Ein Muss für alle, die sich für die Geschichte Floridsdorfs interessieren.

Vom berühmten Zitat »Dann sollen sie doch Kuchen essen«, das fälschlicherweise Marie Antoinette zugeschrieben wird, bis hin zu den berüchtigten Hörnern, die Wikingerhelme geschmückt haben sollen - so gut wie jeden Tag werden in den Nachrichten, in Zeitschriften und vor allem in den Sozialen Medien falsche Behauptungen über geschichtliche Ereignisse und Personen verbreitet. Jo Teeuwisse, die man auf Twitter als »The Fake History Hunter« kennt, entlarvt in diesem Buch 101 der weitverbreitetsten Mythen über historische Tatsachen und stattet uns so mit dem nötigen Rüstzeug aus, um vor unseren Freunden mit geschichtlichem Wissen zu glänzen und Geschichtsfälschungen zu erkennen und zu korrigieren, wo immer wir ihnen begegnen. Von Napoleons geringer Körpergröße über gehörnte Wikingerhelme bis hin zu Neros Musizieren über dem brennenden Rom: Jo Teeuwisse entlarvt 101 landläufige Irrtümer und verfolgt ihre Spuren zurück bis zu ihren Anfängen Bestes Infotainment für Besserwisser, Faktensammler und Geschichtsbegeisterte

Take a trip around The Scenic Loop that begins and ends in Fort Davis, Texas and imagine the history threading through the mountains. Cyclists and travelers have long enjoyed the meandering ride through Davis Mountains State Park and local ranches, and past the McDonald Observatory and campmeeting sites. Author Larry Francell explains how the Scenic Loop began and the history of travel development in the Fort Davis region from both tourists and locals alike.

This volume is based on the work of Jacob Martin and John P. Smith. It contains the names of persons mentioned in the original will, witnesses, dates when written and proven, executors, guardians, trustees, and references to land and other property.

Wo drehten Rennfahrer ihre Runden? Wann wurde der Barbarossaplatz so hässlich? Und wie sieht es heute aus, wo die Kölner früher Achterbahn fuhren?Köln verändert sich ständig, gefühlt ist die größte Stadt Nordrhein-Westfalens eine einzige Baustelle. Doch halten wir kurz die Zeit an und reisen zurück in die Vergangenheit. Schauen wir uns einmal genauer an, wie Köln zu dem wurde, was es heute ist. Wo hoben früher riesige Luftschiffe ab? Wo verschwanden prachtvolle Gründerzeitgebäude? Und wo scheint die Zeit einfach stillzustehen? Führen wir uns die erstaunlichen Dinge vor Augen, die die Kölner an Orten unternahmen, die dafür längst nicht mehr vorgesehen sind. 111 Fotovergleiche und spannende Texte lüften so manches Geheimnis der Stadtgeschichte

Obertraubling: Ein Dorf im Wandel der Zeiten. Nahbar und persönlich, bewegend und zeitkritisch.Stolz reckt sich der Kirchturm von Obertraubling seit Jahrhunderten in die Höhe. Um ihn herum hat sich die Welt oft langsam und manchmal rasant verändert. Aus dem kleinen Dorf ist eine moderne Großgemeinde geworden. Heike Wolter erzählt von diesem Wandel in 50 Szenen. Sie zeigt, wie Menschen Geschichte machen. Bäuerliches Leben am Hof, Dorfgemeinschaft, Lehrer und Pfarrer - das Leben folgt meist einem Gleichmaß. Doch Seuchen, Kriege und bahnbrechende Umwälzungen gehen auch an Obertraubling nicht vorbei. Erstaunt stellen die Menschen fest: In nur einem Menschenleben macht das Dorf einen riesigen Zeitsprung! Heike Wolter fängt sowohl den ruhigen Strom als auch die Wirbel und Schnellen der Ereignisse in und um Obertraubling durch zahlreiche persönliche Zeitzeugen-Interviews sowie intensive Recherchen ein.Ein Buch vom Verlag edition riedenburg, Salzburg * editionriedenburg.at *

Notes on a Tour Through the Western part of The State of New York, 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.

Das Buch Gemarkungswanderung Erfenbach 2022 gibt einen Rückblick mit vielen Informationen zur Gemarkungswanderung rund um Erfenbach.

Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island, 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.

Literary New York: Its Landmarks and Associations, 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.