No More Front Porches

Author : Linda Wilcox
Publisher : Beacon Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 9780834118867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No More Front Porches written by Linda Wilcox and published by Beacon Hill Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front Porches. Once they were a vital part of American society. Whether you had a large verandah that circled the house, or little more than a front stoop, you adorned it with comfortable chairs and spent hours there, talking with friends and relatives, watching what was going on in the neighborhood, looking out for others, and keeping in touch with your world. Front porches symbolized relationships and being involved with life beyond your front door.Today, life has changed. Few new homes offer a place to nestle as twilight sets in and few people have the leisure time for this lifestyle, or even for the relationships that it represents. We’ve moved ahead and left front porch attitudes behind as quaint relics.But in recent years, as the nation has reeled from tragedies such as the Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine, and the September 11 terrorist attacks, Americans are again scurrying to regain that closeness, care, and compassion we found in communities that sat on front porches. Perhaps, we’re finding, we need the stability of those front porch attitudes in our lives. In No More Front Porches, sociologist Linda Wilcox looks at how and why communities, churches, and lifestyles have changed. She evaluates the nostalgia for the ’good old days,’ and explores the offerings of today. Though we can never regain the idealized past, she gives us help and hope for building emotional and community ’front porches’ in the frantic society we now zoom through. She helps us learn how to avoid isolation and refocus our methods for building those close, front porch relationships.Let No More Front Porches help you discover a little bit more about this society in which we live. And in the process, you’re bound to learn how to better enjoy people in your home, neighborhood, church and world.

Author : Michael Dolan
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504090470
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Porch written by Michael Dolan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former American History editor explores the creation and restoration of an essential part of a twentieth-century home’s identity—the American porch. “In this delightful look at an American icon, journalist and documentary scriptwriter . . . Dolan traces the history of the porch, using this history to explore subjects such as architecture, history, slavery, colonialism, trade, anthropology, sociology, consumer behavior, and publishing.” —Library Journal In 1981, Michael Dolan and his wife, Eileen O’Toole, bought a 1926 suburban bungalow in the Palisades area of Washington, DC. It was a fixer-upper and DIY project that consumed their lives for twelve years. As rooms were transformed with updated electrical wiring and plumbing, the house’s porch became a storage area, rotating appliances, furniture, and construction materials as they were used and discarded. After the interior renovation was completed, Michael finally turned his attention to the porch, working with contractors to resurrect it—a reconstruction that inspired him to uncover the history of porches and their significance as a symbolic piece of Americana. “In praise of the porch: Come up and sit a spell.” —USA Today “A wry, well-researched look at the place and the people who rocked, talked and courted on [the American porch] for three centuries.” —Parade “The porch is making a comeback, gradually replacing its humbler rival the deck, which the traditionalist Dolan refers to as the platform shoe or leisure suit of American architecture.” —Time “Dolan amply demonstrates that the porch is primarily a means of escaping the heat and, almost as important, a locus for casual social interaction.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Beth L. Bailey
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421412470
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Front Porch to Back Seat written by Beth L. Bailey and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of courtship between the 1920s and the 1960s, Beth Bailey offers a provocative view of how we sought out mates-and of what accounted for our behavior. More than a quarter-century has passed since the dating system Bailey describes here lost its coherence and dominance. Yet the legacy of the system remains a strong part of our culture's attempt to define female and male roles alike.

Author : Clifton Dowell
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780945575931
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out on the Porch written by Clifton Dowell and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evoking soft summer evenings in the South, a collection of photographs and quotes from such famous writers as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty celebrates the porch as a vital extension of the American character. By the author of Kate Vaiden.

Author : Sherry Petersik
Publisher : Artisan
ISBN 13 : 1579656765
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young House Love written by Sherry Petersik and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Author : Michael S. Foley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809054825
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Front Porch Politics written by Michael S. Foley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personal. It is widely believed that Americans of the 1970s and '80s were exhausted by the upheavals of the '60s and eager to retreat to the private realm. When they did take action, it was mainly to express their disillusionment with government by supporting the right. In fact, as Michael Stewart Foley shows, neither of these assumptions is correct. On the community level, the 1970s and '80s saw vibrant new forms of political activity emerge. Tenants challenged landlords, farmers practiced civil disobedience to protect their land, and laid-off workers asserted a right to own their idled factories. Activists fought to defend the traditional family or to expand the rights of women, while entire towns organized to protest the toxic sludge in their basements. In all these arenas, Americans were propelled by their own experiences into the public sphere. Disregarding conventional ideas of "left" and "right," they turned to political action when they perceived an immediate threat to the safety and security of their families, homes, or dreams. Front Porch Politics is a people's history told through on-the-ground experiences. Recalling crusades famous and forgotten, Foley shows how Americans followed their outrage into the streets. Their distinctive style of visceral, local, and highly personal activism remains a vital resource for the renewal of American democracy"--

Author : Renee Kahn
Publisher : Owl Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805012095
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preserving Porches written by Renee Kahn and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies different porch styles, explains how to determine the original design of a porch, and provides step-by-step instructions for repair and maintenance.

Author : Andrew Peterson
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 108773696X
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The God of the Garden written by Andrew Peterson and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. They’re both told to bear fruit. In fact, arboreal language is so often applied to humans that it’s easy to miss, whether we're talking about family trees, passing along our seed, cutting someone off like a branch, being rooted to a place, or bearing the fruit of the Spirit. It’s hard to deny that trees mean something, theologically speaking. This book is in many ways a memoir, but it’s also an attempt to wake up the reader to the glory of God shining through his creation. One of the first commands to Adam and Eve was to “work and keep” the garden. Award-winning author and songwriter Andrew Peterson, being as honest as possible, shares a story of childhood, grief, redemption, and peace, by walking through a forest of memories: “I trust that by telling my story, you’ll encounter yours. Hopefully, like me, you’ll see that the God of the Garden is and has always been present, working and keeping what he loves.” Sometimes he plants, sometimes he prunes, but in his goodness he intends to reap a harvest of righteousness.

Author : Stephen A. Mouzon
Publisher : New Urban Guild Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9781931871112
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Original Green written by Stephen A. Mouzon and published by New Urban Guild Foundation. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daria Price Bowman
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pleasures of the Porch written by Daria Price Bowman and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas for gracious outdoor living.