The Wiregrass

Author : Pam Webber
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1631529447
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wiregrass written by Pam Webber and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscent of the stories and styles of Harper Lee, Sue Monk Kidd, and Jan Karon, Pam Webber’s The Wiregrass ​is ​an extraordinary tale about a magical time in an ordinary place full of lovable and unlovable characters. Infused with laughter, tears, love, loss, and hope, the story follows fourteen-year-old cousins Nettie, J.D. Eric, and Sam as they navigate the summer of their discontent, struggle with the physical and emotional turbulence of puberty and disappearing childhood, feel the excitement of first love, and run for their lives ​after they uncover an evil secret hidden in the shadows of the small town they love. Their story promises to stay with you a lifetime.

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738517193
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railroading Around Dothan and the Wiregrass Region written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiregrass Region of southeast Alabama, southwest Georgia, and north Florida--named for the perennial grass that covered the long-leaf pine forest floor--is a product of the railroads that arose with the New South. All kinds of railroads served all kinds of purposes in the Wiregrass. Shortlines and even temporary tracks moved timber and pine resin from forest to mill a century ago--they move raw materials and manufactured goods between ports and factories today. Longer lines created business links between Wiregrass towns and the cities of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and the world. Some of these roads lasted only a few years; others merged into complex systems connecting the Wiregrass Region with the rest of the world in a way early settlers could not even imagine. Within these pages, the Dothan Landmarks Foundation has paid tribute to these railroads and the people who created and used them. Railroading around Dothan and the Wiregrass Region celebrates, in word and image, a remarkable era in American history.

Author : John G. Crowley
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065135
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South written by John G. Crowley and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A superb study of Primitive Baptist belief and practice in a specific region of the South. Expands our knowledge of an often neglected group."--Bill Leonard, Dean, School of Divinity, Wake Forest University Between 1819 and 1848, Primitive Baptists emerged as a distinct, dominant religious group in the area of the deepest South known as the Wiregrass country. John Crowley, a historian and former Primitive minister, chronicles their origins and expansion into South Georgia and Florida, documenting one of the strongest aspects of the inner life of the local piney-woods culture. Crowley begins by examining Old Baptist worship and discipline and then addressing Primitive Baptist reaction to the Civil War, Reconstruction, Populism, Progressivism, the Depression, and finally the ferment of the 1960s and present decline of the denomination. Intensely conservative, with a strong belief in predestination, Old Baptists opposed modernizing trends sweeping their denomination in the early 19th century. Crowley describes their separation from Southern Baptists and the many internal schisms on issues such as the saving role of the gospel, the Two Seed Doctrine, and absolute as opposed to limited predestination. Going beyond doctrine, he discusses contention among Old Baptists over music, divorce, membership in secret societies, sacraments administered by heretics, and rituals such as the washing of feet. Writing with insight and sensitivity, he navigates the history of this denomination through the 20th century and the emergence of at least twenty mutually exclusive factions of Primitive Baptists in this specific region of the Deep South.

Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rails Through the Wiregrass written by H. Roger Grant and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Georgia & Florida Railroad began with bright promise, but like many other enterprises in the early twentieth-century South, it experienced hard times. The story begins in 1906, when--responding to a perceived need for better connections to northern markets--a group of entrepreneurs led by prominent Virginia banker John Skelton Williams began to cobble together logging short lines to create more than 350 miles of railroad connecting Augusta, Georgia, with Madison, Florida. At first the G&F triggered growth in its region as several new towns sprang up or expanded along its lines. By 1915, however, the economic dislocations caused by World War I threw the G&F into receivership, and a few years later the G&F came close to dismemberment. Fortunately, shippers and investors rallied to the railroad's cause, and business conditions improved. In 1926 the road was reorganized and, under pressure to "expand or die," built to Greenwood, South Carolina. The Great Depression forced the G&F into bankruptcy, and after its record-length receivership, it was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1963. When the Southern Railway dissolved the corporation and abandoned much of the former trackage, the G&F became the "Gone & Forgotten." Yet in its 57-year lifespan the G&F did much to bring about agricultural diversification and relative prosperity in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia and northern Florida. Offering insights on social and economic conditions in the South from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Grant's study of this obscure yet noteworthy railroad will appeal to those interested in transportation, business, railroad, and Southern regional history.

Author : Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Costs and Returns from Livestock Production in the Wiregrass Area, Lower Coastal Plains, Alabama written by Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark V. Wetherington
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572331686
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910 written by Mark V. Wetherington and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of cultural change challenges the conventional view of the Georgia Pine Belt as an unchanging economic backwater. Its postbellum economy evolves from self-sufficiency to being largely dependent upon cotton. Before the Civil War, the Piney Woods easily supported a population of mostly yeomen farmers and livestock herders. After the war, a variety of external forces, spearheaded by Reconstruction-era New South boosters, invaded the region, permanently altering the social, political, and economic landscape in an attempt to create a South with a diversified economy. The first stage in the transformation -- railroad construction and a revival of steamboating -- led to the second stage: sawmilling and turpentining. The harvest of forest products during the 1870s and 1880s created new economic opportunities but left the area dependent upon a single industry that brought deforestation and the decline of the open-range system within a generation.

Author : Douglas Waitley
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1561643742
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Easygoing Guide to Natural Florida, Volume 2 written by Douglas Waitley and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trips for nature lovers that won't strain the muscles.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1152 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : University of Georgia Press
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820317991
Total Pages : 820 pages
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Download or read book The New Georgia Guide written by University of Georgia Press and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Georgia Humanities Council presents a guidebook with cultural, historical, and regional coverage of Georgia

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
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Download or read book Department of Agriculture Appropriations for 1963 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: