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Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay - Christian M McBurney

Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay - Christian M McBurney

During World War I and World War II, Rhode Island was dotted with coastal forts filled with large caliber guns. Yet they were never fired in anger. By contrast, from 1929 to 1933, during Prohibition, U.S. Coast Guard vessels frequently fired machine guns at rumrunners in Narragansett Bay. Machine gun fire killed three rumrunners and wounded another on the notorious Black Duck. Despite the incident drawing national protests, the carnage continued. The Coast Guard fired machine guns at dozens more..

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The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told: Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West Extension - Seth H. Bramson

The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told: Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West Extension - Seth H. Bramson

Although several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparalleled vision to make it happen. In 1902, Henry Flagler made the decision to extend the Florida East Coast Railway to \the nearest deepwater American port.\ In this book, renowned Florida historian Seth H. Bramson reveals how the Key West Extension of the Flagler-owned FEC became the greatest railroad engineering and construction feat in U.S., and possibly..

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Beacon Hill, Back Bay and the Building of Boston's Golden Age - Ted Clarke

Beacon Hill, Back Bay and the Building of Boston's Golden Age - Ted Clarke

Venture back to the Boston of the 1800s, when Back Bay was just a wide expanse of water to the west of the Shawmut Peninsula and merchants peddled their wares to sailors along the docks. Witness the beginning of the American Industrial Revolution; learn how a series of cultural movements made Boston the focal point of abolitionism in America, with leaders like William Lloyd Garrison; and see the golden age of the arts ushered in with notables Longfellow, Holmes, Copley, Sargent and Isabella Stewart..

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Remembering Lyndon: A Glance Back in Time - Harriet Fletcher Fisher

Remembering Lyndon: A Glance Back in Time - Harriet Fletcher Fisher

In Remembering Lyndon, local journalist and fourth generation Lyndonite Harriet Fletcher Fisher has compiled her favorite columns about Lyndon Center, Lyndon Corner, and Lyndonville, which have been appearing in the Caledonian-Record, the Lyndon Independent, and other local papers since 1961. Her articles take readers back to the first time electricity turned \the night to day\ during Fourth of July celebrations in 1883, the afternoon in 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt came rumbling through town,..

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A History of Back Creek: Bent Mountain, Poages Mill, Cave Spring and Starkey - Nelson Harris

A History of Back Creek: Bent Mountain, Poages Mill, Cave Spring and Starkey - Nelson Harris

Since Europeans first settled along the banks of Back Creek in the 1740s, southwest Roanoke County's history has been as fluid as the creek itself. The once dense forest with log cabins gave way to the sprawling suburbs of the present. The colonial-era Trader's Path that directed Scots-Irish homesteaders, the growth of the apple industry in Bent Mountain after the Civil War, a state highway built by convicts during the Depression and Cave Spring becoming a modern commercial center have shaped the..

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Looking Back at Elyria - Marci Rich

Looking Back at Elyria - Marci Rich

Brimming with postwar optimism and prosperity, mid-twentieth-century Elyria seemed like Camelot and was, indeed, a brief passage on a beloved president's campaign trail. You could visit the bears at Cascade Park and play on the slides. See a movie at the Capitol Theatre and enjoy a cherry Coke at the Paradise, but wait until the party line is free before calling your friends on your rotary telephone to make your plans. Run an errand for Mom at Hales Market and then walk up to the old Reefy mansion..

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Gamecock Encore: The 2011 University of South Carolina Baseball Team's Run to Back-To-Back NCAA Championships - Travis Haney

Gamecock Encore: The 2011 University of South Carolina Baseball Team's Run to Back-To-Back NCAA Championships - Travis Haney

The Gamecocks baseball team's surprising, heart-pounding run to the 2010 College World Series title seemed to many as if it could not be paralleled, in its excitement or its overall meaning to the school and the state of South Carolina. In 2011, though, they topped what they had already done, returning home champions and parading in style to the State House steps. In 2010, they honored the life of 7-year-old Bayler Teal, a cancer victim who died during the College World Series. In 2011, they celebrated..

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A History of Little Havana - Guillermo J. Grenier

A History of Little Havana - Guillermo J. Grenier

In the heart of Miami, Little Havana is a neighborhood buzzing with culture. Still imagined as primarily a Cuban extension of the city, it has been a sanctuary to refugees since the 1959 revolution and has experienced fascinating changes to become what it is today. Find out how a location associated with old Cubans playing dominos has become a vibrant, multi-ethnic community and a birthplace of Miami's most exciting arts and music movements. Learn why Little Havana has continued to serve as a political..

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Remembering Old Jamestown: A Look Back at the Other South - Mary A. Browning

Remembering Old Jamestown: A Look Back at the Other South - Mary A. Browning

Founded by Quakers in the late eighteenth century, Jamestown, North Carolina, has a rich heritage that distinguishes it from many neighboring Southern communities. From General Cornwallis in the waning years of the American Revolution to the flight of Jefferson Davis from the Confederate capital at Richmond with Union forces at his heels, history has not passed Jamestown by. The town has seen gold mines and gunsmiths, a forgotten school and a cotton mill from 1865 that's still spinning. Join local..

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Scenic Georgia Sketchbook - Landmarks and Wonders from the Back Roads - Ronald R Huffman

Scenic Georgia Sketchbook - Landmarks and Wonders from the Back Roads - Ronald R Huffman

More than eighty historic buildings and roadside landmarks across Georgia have found sanctuary in this stark but powerful collection of sketch work. From obscure treasures like a Cobb County covered bridge to the instantly recognizable Forsyth Park in Savannah, landscape architect Ronald Huffman puts pencil to pad to safeguard moments of state history. Each piece is accompanied by anecdotes and related backstories that preserve the context of these icons before progress irrevocably alters the landscape...

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Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard - Inventor, Bootlegger and Psychedelic Pioneer - Brad Holden

Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard - Inventor, Bootlegger and Psychedelic Pioneer - Brad Holden

Seattle has a long tradition of being at the forefront of technological innovation. In 1919, an eager young inventor named Alfred M. Hubbard made his first newspaper appearance with the announcement of a perpetual motion machine that harnessed energy from Earth''s atmosphere. From there, Hubbard transformed himself into a charlatan, bootlegger, radio pioneer, top-secret spy, millionaire and uranium entrepreneur. In 1953, after discovering the transformative effects of a little-known hallucinogenic..

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Wicked Pittsburgh - Richard Gazarik

Wicked Pittsburgh - Richard Gazarik

Muckraking journalist Walter Liggett dubbed Pittsburgh the \Metropolis of Corruption\ in 1930 when he reported the city had more vice per square foot than New York, Detroit, Cleveland or Boston. Decades earlier, the Magee-Flinn political machine ruled public officials, and crooked police helped racketeers protect brothels and gambling dens. Mayor (later Governor) David Lawrence was indicted several times for graft but acquitted each time. Even Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr. colluded..

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Stories from Jewish Portland - Polina Olsen

Stories from Jewish Portland - Polina Olsen

These are the stories of Jewish Portland, whose roots stretch back to the Gold Rush, whose heart is 'the old neighborhood' of South Portland and the memories of its residents, whose identity is alive and well in synagogues and community institutions. Portland author Polina Olsen recounts the history of this richly layered community through a collection of letters, interviews, and stories drawn from her series \Looking Back,\ published in The Jewish Review. In this expanded collection, explore the..

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Midcoast Maine in World War II - Margaret Shiels Konitzky

Midcoast Maine in World War II - Margaret Shiels Konitzky

While World War II raged overseas, the people of midcoast Maine responded with remarkable achievements on the homefront. The shipyard at Bath Iron Works launched a new destroyer every seventeen days. Bowdoin College had more military than civilian students and held three commencements per year. Boothbay Harbor, Bailey Island and Damariscotta all had military bases, and anyone who owned or sailed a boat was recruited for coastal defense. Women worked at machine shops, registered their neighbors for..

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A Travel History of Martha's Vineyard: From Canoes and Horses to Steamships and Trolleys - Thomas Dresser

A Travel History of Martha's Vineyard: From Canoes and Horses to Steamships and Trolleys - Thomas Dresser

\How transportation changed an island. Getting to the Vineyard has never been easy. Native Americans built canoes for the journey, and early settlers crossed Vineyard Sound in small sailing packets. Steamships dramatically changed island life. On the island, the horse-drawn trolley evolved into the electric trolley. Tourists and residents crowded railroads until they were replaced by the automobile. The story of Vineyard transportation is the story of an evolution of man and machine, of opportunity..

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Oregon State University Baseball - Cliff Kirkpatrick

Oregon State University Baseball - Cliff Kirkpatrick

In the postseasons of 2005, 2006 and 2007, the Oregon State Beavers baseball team achieved a seemingly impossible dream and forever changed the culture of Northwest sports. After nearly a century of dismissal as a wet-weather team, unable to compete with the southern baseball belt on the national stage, a run of three College World Series appearances and back-to-back titles earned the Beavers national respect. Inspired by his own coverage of the dramatic seasons, Corvallis Gazette-Times\ sportswriter..

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Monadnock Moments: Historic Tales from Southwest New Hampshire - Alan Rumrill

Monadnock Moments: Historic Tales from Southwest New Hampshire - Alan Rumrill

What do Louisa May Alcott and Henry David Thoreau have in common with the inventors of barbed wire, margarine and the washing machine? They were all deeply moved by their time spent in the beautiful Monadnock region of southwest New Hampshire. Inspired by beloved local storyteller Fritz Wetherbee, Historical Society of Cheshire County director Alan F. Rumrill collected their stories in his series, Monadnock Moments, broadcast on Keene radio station WKNE from 1985 to 2005. Here he has gathered one..

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Solving the West Georgia Murder of Gwendolyn Moore - A Cry from the Well - Clay Bryant

Solving the West Georgia Murder of Gwendolyn Moore - A Cry from the Well - Clay Bryant

On a sultry August morning in 1970, the battered body of a young woman was hoisted from a dry well just outside Hogansville, Georgia. Author and investigator Clay Bryant was there, witnessing the macabre scene. Then fifteen, Bryant was tagging along with his father, Buddy Bryant, Hogansville chief of police. The victim, Gwendolyn Moore, had been in a violent marriage. That was no secret. But her husband had connections to a political machine that held sway over the Troup County Sheriff''s Office..

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