Coming Of Age In 1950s Rural Western Pennsylvania

Author : Rick Sheffer
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781660702374
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age In 1950s Rural Western Pennsylvania written by Rick Sheffer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-01-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Ashbaugh - I just finished reading your book. Boy, did that ever turn the clock back. I think that described life in those small towns to a tee. Congratulations on getting it published. TOWN and TIME ... My cycle of life began January 12, 1945, seven months before the end of WWII, in Emlenton, Pennsylvania, a borough of some 800 souls, where generations of my father's family had lived and died. Emlenton, which lies partially isolated in the hills of northwestern Pennsylvania, offered few outside distractions, so we relied heavily on our imaginations and the natural resources that surrounded us. The swimming holes along Richey Run Creek, the Indian cave below the town cemetery, and long hikes along the railroad tracks that followed alongside the majestic Allegheny River offered plenty of adventure and diversion. Our lives revolved around paper routes, baseball, pin ball machines, hotdogs, French fries, 5&10 stores, dances, and dating. The freezing cold winters involved basketball, deer hunting and fur trapping. A youthful fertile mind, interested in science, led to rocketry, homemade motors, crystal radios, moonshine, and motor scooters that provided a lifetime of memories. The stories shared are sometimes funny, poignant, and often laced with mischief. Emlenton seemed to be magical, and those times now seem idyllic. This is where I grew up, and this book is about the time, the place, the people, and the events that formed my coming of age in the 1950s.

Author : Lynne Gross
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312218487
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age in the 1950s written by Lynne Gross and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming of Age in the 1950s includes 64 illustrated short stories, sprung from the pages of the author's diaries, which she has kept since she was 10 years old. Most of the stories are based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but the last few feature Los Angeles, California. The stories incorporate historical facts and sociological commentary on such subjects as apartments, cars, clothes, college dorm life, dating, death, friendship, high school, illness, junior high, meals, modeling, marriage, Miss America, music, newspapers, part-time jobs, pets, religion, shopping, snow, sororities, teachers, television, and travel.

Author : Bruce Sheets
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Boomer Memoir written by Bruce Sheets and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boomer Memoir: A Coming Of Age Odyssey Follow the adventures of a baby boomer born in 1948 from his birth to high school graduation in 1966. Born in a small South Western Pennsylvania town on the edge of Appalachia, the narrator, in a fictional memoir filled with amusing anecdotes, captures life in an absorbing snapshot of coming of age in the Pennsylvania bituminous coalfields of the 1950s. The tiny village surrounded by the coal patches of rural America is the backdrop for the zany antics of a close-knit group of kids sharing growing pains. Raised and mentored by the Greatest Generation, the group gets into its fair share of trouble but manages to get it sorted out. Although not exactly in the conventional religious sense, God is always in the equation. Fiction Small Town Memoir Humor Religion

Author : Eldon Buckner
Publisher : Boone and Crockett Club
ISBN 13 : 9780940864436
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Records of North American Whitetail Deer written by Eldon Buckner and published by Boone and Crockett Club. This book was released on 2003 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records of North American Whitetail Deer is the definitive history book of trophy whitetail deer in North America. This greatly expanded fourth edition features: Over 7,500 listings of whitetail deer from the Boone and Crockett Club's Records Program dating back to the late 1800s up through December 31, 2002; that's nearly double the entries from the previous edition published just seven years ago. Over 35 new state and provincial records; geographic analysis of each state in the U.S., highlighting the top trophy-producing counties; individual state and provincial lists of typical and non-typical whitetail and Coues' deer; photos of all the state, provincial, and Mexican typical and non-typical whitetail deer records; numerous field photos of trophy quality whitetail deer; reproductions of typical and non-typical whitetail deer score charts with basic scoring instructions.

Author : Larry Kyle Meredith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985135287
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real, Rural: Growing Up Rural in the 1950s written by Larry Kyle Meredith and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real, Rural is a memoir about growing up in a rural area in the 1950s. This book examines the issues faced locally by young people living in or near a very small town in central Kansas, as well as national issues such as Civil Rights, nuclear concerns such as the Korean War and other issues. It compares rural life to urban living. Real, Rural examines the whole of the 1950s, not only from a rural point of view, but also from the perspective of anyone who grew up during that decade and who was concerned with national and international concerns and conflicts and how they affected that individual personally.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age on the Northern Plains written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a brief account of some of the memories/experiences I had growing up that I would like to share with my children and grandchildren. The conditions and circumstances at the time of my coming of age during the 1950s were so radically different from those of following generations that I wanted to record at least some of my experiences. William John Krause, son of William John Krause and Hazel Ruby Nelson, as born in 1942 in Glasgow, Montana. His father was born in Otter Tail County near Fergus Falls, Minnesota in 1915, and was the son of Arthur Adolph Krause (1881-1927) and Anna Maria Bertha Peters (1884-1956). His paternal great grandparents were Adolph Reinhold Krause (1845-1922) and Wilhelmine Auguste Richter (1859-1952). His maternal grandparents were Nels Chris Nelson and Mary Elizabeth Johannesson. His ancestors lived mainly in Germany and Sweden.

Author : John L. Puckett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291085
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Penn written by John L. Puckett and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second half of the twentieth century saw the University of Pennsylvania grow in size as well as in stature. On its way to becoming one of the world's most celebrated research universities, Penn exemplified the role of urban renewal in the postwar redevelopment and expansion of urban universities, and the indispensable part these institutions played in the remaking of American cities. Yet urban renewal is only one aspect of this history. Drawing from Philadelphia's extensive archives as well as the University's own historical records and publications, John L. Puckett and Mark Frazier Lloyd examine Penn's rise to eminence amid the social, moral, and economic forces that transformed major public and private institutions across the nation. Becoming Penn recounts the shared history of university politics and urban policy as the campus grappled with twentieth-century racial tensions, gender inequality, labor conflicts, and economic retrenchment. Examining key policies and initiatives of the administrations led by presidents Gaylord Harnwell, Martin Meyerson, Sheldon Hackney, and Judith Rodin, Puckett and Lloyd revisit the actors, organizations, and controversies that shaped campus life in this turbulent era. Illustrated with archival photographs of the campus and West Philadelphia neighborhood throughout the late twentieth century, Becoming Penn provides a sweeping portrait of one university's growth and impact within the broader social history of American higher education.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Pennsylvania History written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rinker Buck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451659164
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Rinker Buck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail is a major work of participatory history: an epic account of traveling the 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way, in a covered wagon with a team of mules—which hasn't been done in a century—that also tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country. Spanning 2,000 miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used it to emigrate West—historians still regard this as the largest land migration of all time—the trail united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. The trail years also solidified the American character: our plucky determination in the face of adversity, our impetuous cycle of financial bubbles and busts, the fractious clash of ethnic populations competing for the same jobs and space. Today, amazingly, the trail is all but forgotten. Rinker Buck is no stranger to grand adventures. The New Yorker described his first travel narrative,Flight of Passage, as “a funny, cocky gem of a book,” and with The Oregon Trailhe seeks to bring the most important road in American history back to life. At once a majestic American journey, a significant work of history, and a personal saga reminiscent of bestsellers by Bill Bryson and Cheryl Strayed, the book tells the story of Buck's 2,000-mile expedition across the plains with tremendous humor and heart. He was accompanied by three cantankerous mules, his boisterous brother, Nick, and an “incurably filthy” Jack Russell terrier named Olive Oyl. Along the way, Buck dodges thunderstorms in Nebraska, chases his runaway mules across miles of Wyoming plains, scouts more than five hundred miles of nearly vanished trail on foot, crosses the Rockies, makes desperate fifty-mile forced marches for water, and repairs so many broken wheels and axels that he nearly reinvents the art of wagon travel itself. Apart from charting his own geographical and emotional adventure, Buck introduces readers to the evangelists, shysters, natives, trailblazers, and everyday dreamers who were among the first of the pioneers to make the journey west. With a rare narrative power, a refreshing candor about his own weakness and mistakes, and an extremely attractive obsession for history and travel,The Oregon Trail draws readers into the journey of a lifetime.

Author : Elizabeth Johnson
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811729550
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landis Valley Museum written by Elizabeth Johnson and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landis Valley Museum, a complex of more than twenty-five buildings in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, founded in the 1920s by brothers Henry K. and George D. Landis, preserves Pennsylvania Dutch rural life from the mid-eighteenth century to the early-twentieth century. The guidebook surveys the Pennsylvania Dutch culture, profiles the brothers who amassed more than 75,000 objects relating to Dutch heritage, and concludes with a tour of the buildings and the grounds.