These Exalted Acres Unlocking The Secrets Of Albany Rural Cemetery

Author : Paul Grondahl
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578134543
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book These Exalted Acres: Unlocking the Secrets of Albany Rural Cemetery written by Paul Grondahl and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Exalted Acres: Unlocking the Secrets of Albany Rural Cemetery

Author : Akum Norder
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438467907
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Here written by Akum Norder and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Pine Hills neighborhood in Albany, New York, changed and grew, as reflected in the history of one house and the lives of its residents. When you buy an old house, you get much more than a house. In all its quirks, its alterations, in fragments of memory and traces left behind, you get a bundle of small mysteries. Who used to live here? Why did they come here, and where did they go? Whose name is that written on the attic wall? When did that odd little bathroom get shoehorned in there, and what did the room look like before? If you’re lucky, one or two of your house’s mysteries might unfold into stories. Akum Norder was very lucky. The History of Here follows Albany, New York’s, Pine Hills neighborhood through more than one hundred years of change. At its heart is the story of Norder’s 1912 house and the people who built and lived in it. As Norder traced their histories, she came to see the development of her house, her street, and her neighborhood as a piece of Albany’s story. In the lives of its residents, their struggles and triumphs, she saw a reflection of twentieth-century America. Drawing on interviews, city records, newspapers, out-of-print books, and other sources, Norder’s narrative makes a case for city neighborhoods: their value, their preservation, and the grassroots involvement that turns a jumble of houses into a community. Funny and thought-provoking, readable and relevant, The History of Here celebrates the sense of place that fuels the new urbanism. “Akum Norder has contributed to the literature of American life a paean of neighborliness of which Garrison Keillor would be pleased to read, and perhaps E. B. White and even James Agee would take pleasure in this could they look in from the great beyond. Rooted in the keenly seen particular, this history has implications about the organic growth of American cities in general, and what we mean when we talk about ‘the good old days.’” — Gregory Maguire “Akum Norder writes with an authentic voice and a deep sense of place. Her story about her family’s house in Albany’s Pine Hills neighborhood captures the American urban experience. Her prose is clear-eyed yet passionate, with a measure of Jane Jacobs’s advocacy. The History of Here is an important addition to the Albany canon.” — Paul Grondahl, author of Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma

Author : Arthur C. M. Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560121749
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albany Rural Cemetery written by Arthur C. M. Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albany Cemetery Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Proprietors of the Albany Rural Cemetery written by Albany Cemetery Association and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Pitt Phelps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Albany Rural Cemetery written by Henry Pitt Phelps and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Pitt Phelps
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016163873
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Albany Rural Cemetery written by Henry Pitt Phelps and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Jenny Marsh Parker
Publisher : Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rochester written by Jenny Marsh Parker and published by Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore. This book was released on 1884 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Burroughs
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752311630
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Harvest written by John Burroughs and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Last Harvest by John Burroughs

Author : Mark Twain
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book Sketches, New and Old written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Compton Mackenzie
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465521690
Total Pages : 1513 pages
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Download or read book Sinister Street (Complete) written by Compton Mackenzie and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1913-01-01 with total page 1513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a world of daisies as big as moons and of mountainous green hillocks Michael Fane came by some unrealized method of transport to the thin red house, that as yet for his mind could not claim an individual existence amid the uniformity of a long line of fellows. His arrival coincided with a confusion of furniture, with the tramp of men backwards and forwards from a cavernous vehicle very dry and dusty. He found himself continually being lifted out of the way of washstands and skeleton chests of drawers. He was invited to sit down and keep quiet, and almost in the same breath to walk about and avoid hindrance. Finally, Nurse led him up many resonant stairs to the night-nursery which at present consisted of two square cots that with japanned iron bars stood gauntly in a wilderness of oilcloth surrounded by four walls patterned with a prolific vegetation. Michael was dumped down upon a grey pillow and invited to see how well his sister Stella was behaving. Nurse’s observation was true enough: Stella was rosily asleep in an undulation of blankets, and Michael, threatened by many whispers and bony finger-shakes, was not at all inclined to wake her up. Nurse retired in an aura of importance, and Michael set out to establish an intimacy with the various iron bars of his cage. For a grown-up person these would certainly have seemed much more alike than even the houses of Carlington Road, West Kensington: for Michael each bar possessed a personality. Minute scratches unnoticed by the heedless adult world lent variety of expression: slight irregularities infused certain groups with an air of deliberate consultation. From the four corners royal bars, crowned with brass, dominated their subjects. Passions, intrigues, rumours, ambitions, revenges were perceived by Michael to be seething below the rigid exterior of these iron bars: even military operations were sometimes discernible. This cot was guarded by a romantic population, with one or two of whose units Michael could willingly have dispensed: one bar in particular, set very much askew, seemed sly and malignant. Michael disliked being looked at by anybody or anything, and this bar had a persistent inquisitiveness which already worried him. ‘Why does he look at me?’ Michael would presently ask, and ‘Nobody wants to look at such an ugly little boy,’ Nurse would presently reply. So one more intolerable question would overshadow his peace of mind. Meanwhile, far below, the tramp of men continued, until suddenly an immense roar filled the room. Some of the bars shivered and clinked, and Michael’s heart nearly stopped. The roar died away only to be succeeded by another roar from the opposite direction. Stella woke up crying. Michael was too deeply frightened so to soothe himself, as he sat clutching the pointed ears of the grey pillow. Stella, feeling that the fretful tears of a sudden awakening were insufficient, set up a bellow of dismay. Michael was motionless, only aware of a gigantic heart that shook him horribly. At last the footsteps of Nurse could be heard, and over them, the quick ‘tut-tut-tuts’ that voiced her irritation.