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Author : Nancy Safford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262690409
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Time's Island; Portraits of the Vineyard written by Nancy Safford and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Safford
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Time's Island; Portraits of the Vineyard written by Nancy Safford and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1973 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1672, seventy years after the discovery of Martha's Vineyard, two communities had been formed, one on the shore and the other in the heart of the mid-island grasslands and hills. These two villages represented the division of interests and labor among the island people. Though other villages have taken hold since then, either the farm or the sea continues to guide an island man's life, and neither has eased its three-century grip. Despite the Vineyard's present and growing popularity as a summer playground, the year-round community still looks to natural resources for its living. Through photographs and occasional interviews, this book shows Martha's Vineyard as it was before tourism became the primary industry—and how, to a large extent, it still is after the "city people" leave for the winter. Nancy Safford has lived and worked on the Vineyard for many years, and her perspective is that of one who is part of the island's ongoing life. The sequence of 96 photographs follows the seasons, emphasizing how closely bound to nature the island's traditional occupations—cranberry picking, farming, scalloping, lobstering, trap fishing, and shearing—have always been. Interviews with older Vineyard natives recall the past, to which many of these people are tied by tradition and memory, though these traditions serve them less and less well as the years go on. While this book focuses on Martha's Vineyard alone, it manages nevertheless to suggest a larger American past that is also fast disappearing.
Author : Ryan H. Walsh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735221367
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Astral Weeks written by Ryan H. Walsh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. In his first book, acclaimed musician and journalist Ryan H. Walsh unearths the album's fascinating backstory--along with the untold secrets of the time and place that birthed it: Boston 1968. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, Walsh's book follows a criss-crossing cast of musicians and visionaries, artists and hippie entrepreneurs, from a young Tufts English professor who walks into a job as a host for TV's wildest show (one episode required two sets, each tuned to a different channel) to the mystically inclined owner of radio station WBCN, who believed he was the reincarnation of a scientist from Atlantis. Most penetratingly powerful of all is Mel Lyman, the folk-music star who decided he was God, then controlled the lives of his many followers via acid, astrology, and an underground newspaper called Avatar. A mesmerizing group of boldface names pops to life in Astral Weeks: James Brown quells tensions the night after Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated; the real-life crimes of the Boston Strangler come to the movie screen via Tony Curtis; Howard Zinn testifies for Avatar in the courtroom. From life-changing concerts and chilling crimes, to acid experiments and film shoots, Astral Weeks is the secret, wild history of a unique time and place. One of LitHub's 15 Books You Should Read This March
Author : Annie Cohen-Solal
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300185537
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mark Rothko written by Annie Cohen-Solal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American society began with a series of painful experiences, especially as a student at Yale, where he felt marginalized for his origins and ultimately left the school. The decision to become an artist led him to a new phase in his life. Early in his career, Annie Cohen-Solal writes, “he became a major player in the social struggle of American artists, and his own metamorphosis benefited from the unique transformation of the U.S. art world during this time.” Within a few decades, he had forged his definitive artistic signature, and most critics hailed him as a pioneer. The numerous museum shows that followed in major U.S. and European institutions ensured his celebrity. But this was not enough for Rothko, who continued to innovate. Ever faithful to his habit of confronting the establishment, he devoted the last decade of his life to cultivating his new conception of art as an experience, thanks to the commission of a radical project, the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. Cohen-Solal’s fascinating biography, based on considerable archival research, tells the unlikely story of how a young immigrant from Dvinsk became a crucial transforming agent of the art world—one whose legacy prevails to this day.
Author : Jeremy Driesen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578597225
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vineyard Noir written by Jeremy Driesen and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs shot on the island of Martha's Vineyard: For many people, Martha's Vineyard evokes scenes of boats on calm harbor waters, beautiful seascapes, and breathtaking sunsets. And while the Vineyard is absolutely all of those things, the greater attraction for my camera and me are the Vineyard people and scenes I see on a regular basis, whether it's going out at night, shooting photo assignments, hanging with friends, or whatever. For some reason, I seem to do my best work well after sunset. I love human engagement, I love movement, I love weird. Somehow in some mash-up of those elements come the photos that follow on these pages.
Author : David Kinney
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802199992
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Big One written by David Kinney and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Big One is to competitive fishing what Friday Night Lights was to high school football.” —News & Record (Greensboro) A Forbes Best Sports Book of the Year Published to rave reviews in hardcover and purchased by DreamWorks in a major film deal, The Big One is a spellbinding and richly atmospheric work by a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist. Here is the story of a community—Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts—and a sporting event—the island’s legendary Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby—that is rendered with the same depth, color, and emotional power of the best fiction. Among the characters, we meet: Dick Hathaway, a crotchety legend who once caught a bluefish from a helicopter and was ultimately banned for cheating; Janet Messineo, a recovering alcoholic who says that striped bass saved her life; Buddy Vanderhoop, a boastful Native American charter captain who guides celebrity anglers like Keith Richards and Spike Lee; and Wyatt Jenkinson, a nine-year-old fishing fanatic whose mother is battling brain cancer. At the center of it all is five-time winner Lev Wlodyka, a cagey local whose next fish will spark a storm of controversy and throw the tournament into turmoil. “The Big One is a rollicking true story of a grand American obsession. You don’t have to be a fisherman to relish David Kinney’s marvelous account of the annual striper madness on Martha’s Vineyard, or his unforgettable portraits of the possessed. It’s a fine piece of journalism, rich with color and suspense.” —Carl Hiaasen, New York Times–bestselling author
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1760 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Billy Morrow Jackson
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1582611718
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)
Download or read book On this Island written by Billy Morrow Jackson and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the ferry leaves Woods Hole and Martha's Vineyard slowly rises on the horizon, something inside you changes. The air is cleaner, the sky seems more blue and the water clearer. Then you realize it is not the water or the air or the sky that change, but that something inside you changes as you leave the mainland and draw closer to the Island. Martha's Vineyard may be just a few miles off the coast of Cape Cod, but to those who love the Island, she is world away. The Wampanoag name for the Vineyard, Noepe means Island in the Streams and comes close to capturing the essence of Martha's Vineyard. To describe Martha's Vineyard historically and geographically is easy. It was formed nearly 12,000 years ago, was first settled by the Wampanoag Indians and was discovered in 1602 by English mariner Bartholomew Gosnold. It is 100 square miles and consists of six distinct towns. But to capture the spirit of the Island is a much greater challenge. Acclaimed artists Billy Morrow Jackson, a Vineyard resident and visitor for over fifty years, and his wife, Siti Maria Jackson, provide an artist's view of this unique Island in the Streams. On this Island includes original paintings, including classic works depicting the Gay Head Cliffs and Menemsha to the down Island towns of Vineyard Haven, Oak Bluffs and Edgartown. The artists focus not only on the land that is Martha's Vineyard, but they also capture the life and spirit of the people of the Island. On this Island: An Artist's View of Martha's Vineyard offers a rare view of the Island captured by two artists who know and appreciate all that the Island is.
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2258 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977: Title index written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 2258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carly Simon
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780689812378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Midnight Farm written by Carly Simon and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two brothers join a fantastical nighttime musical celebration by the plants and animals on their farm on Martha's Vineyard.
