Home Town

Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307826473
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Town written by Tracy Kidder and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northampton's social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a town's narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from, and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order--how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.

Author : Rose Wilder Lane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Home Town written by Rose Wilder Lane and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erin Napier
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316463833
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lantern House written by Erin Napier and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the nationally beloved co-host of the #1 hit show Home Town comes the quintessential celebration of home. Imagine a house's early days as a home: A young family builds a picket fence and plants flowers in its yard, children climb the magnolia tree and play the piano in the living room, and there is music inside the house for many happy years. But what will happen when its windows grow dark, its paint starts to crumble, and its boards creak in the winter wind? The house dreams of a family who will love it again...and one day, a new story will emerge from within its walls. In this modern classic, Erin Napier’s lyrical prose and Adam Trest’s warm and comforting paintings deeply evoke the soul of a house cherishing the seasons of life and discovering the joy of rebirth.

Author : Hongyou Dong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478868033
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragon's Hometown written by Hongyou Dong and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl longs to return to the island in China where she was born to look for dragons. One day, her dream comes true when her family returns to celebrate Chinese New Year. The girl helps her grandparents prepare for the holiday. She assists her grandmother in making tangyuan, a tasty desert, and she watches as her grandfather paints a dragon costume. The girl joins in on the big holiday parade, then waits for nightfall when her family's lotus-shaped lanterns can be released into the water. Her grandfather explains how the fish jump over the lanterns to become dragons, and why she is called Little Dragon Girl.

Author : Sally Foreman Griffith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198022263
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Town News written by Sally Foreman Griffith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895, a 27-year-old journalist named William Allen White returned to his home town of Emporia, Kansas, to edit a little down-at-the-heels newspaper he had just purchased for $3,000. "The new editor," he wrote in his first editorial, "hopes to live here until he is the old editor, until some of the visions which rise before him as he dreams shall have come true." White did become "the old editor," remaining with the Emporia Gazette until his death 50 years later. During his long tenure he gained nation-wide fame as an author, political leader, and social commentator. But more than anything else, he became the national embodiment of the small-town newspaperman and all the treasured virtues that small towns represented in the minds of Americans. Home Town News is both a fascinating biography and a compelling social history. As Sally Foreman Griffith shows, White's popular image--kindly yet crusading, fiercely independent yet deeply rooted in his community--doesn't do justice to the man's complexity. Shrewdly carving out a position of leadership in a faction-torn town, White carefully shaped his paper's vision of its community to promote local economic growth, Republican political control, and social harmony. With his emergence as a leader among Midwestern progressives, he carefully adapted the ideas and rhetoric of small-town boosterism to changing economic realities. The book uses White's career to help us understand the role of journalism--and the journalist--in turn-of-the-century American culture. Far from being a simple chronicler of daily events, the small-town newspaperman carried considerable weight in his community. He was a leading force in local business, a galvanizing influence in civic life, and a key political activist. As giant corporations came to dominate the national economy, the newspaperman played a pivotal yet ambivalent role in the resulting social transformation: he sought to preserve local autonomy even as his paper introduced his readers to mass-produced consumer goods. Home Town News also tells the story of Emporia, Kansas, during this period of social change. Its richly textured descriptions of small-town life take us beyond abstractions like "modernization," "progressivism," and "boosterism." As we observe the Emporia Street Fair of 1899, the heated controversy over the morality of a local doctor in 1902, and the elaborate campaign to build a Y.M.C.A. in 1914, we gain new insights into the processes that have shaped modern America.

Author : Doug Rains
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662469438
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being a Home Town Vet written by Doug Rains and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When anyone is so fortunate to practice veterinary medicine as their calling, their memories are the journals of their lives. This book has excerpts of the journal from a veterinary general practioneers experiences of the happiness, sadness, and realities of being a veterinarian. Every day has been a heck of a ride. 2

Author : Dave Adkins
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479701653
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Town Memories of Grinnell, Iowa written by Dave Adkins and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I attended my 55th high school reunion in July of 2012 and was inspired to write Home Town Memories of Grinnell, Iowa. This work is not intended to be an all inclusive, comprehensive, scholarly history with a preoccupation for exact dates, etc. It is simply a personal history, my recollections of the old home town during a limited period in the towns history the 40s, 50s and 60s. I have written in my own way using a flow of words that came to me as I wrote. In a town of 8,000 9,000, as Grinnell was in those days - you eventually get to know and have some contact along the way with most people. My intent was to communicate in simple, straight forward terms and was not concerned about presenting it as a triumph in English language grammar.

Author : United States. Army Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manual for the Preparation of Army Home Town News Material. U.S. Army Home Town News Center, Kansas City, Missouri, October 20, 1960 written by United States. Army Department and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Hometown News Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Domurad
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783089326
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hometown Hamburg written by Frank Domurad and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the study of Hamburg handicraft in the late Weimar Republic ‘Hometown Hamburg’ addresses three intertwined problems in modern German history: the role of institutionalized social, political and cultural continuity versus contingency in the course of modern German development; the impact of conflicting notions of social order on the survival of liberal democracy; and the role of corporate politics in the rise of National Socialism.