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Iconic Summer Camps Around Jacksonville - Bok av Dorothy K Fletcher - Inbunden

Iconic Summer Camps Around Jacksonville - Bok av Dorothy K Fletcher - Inbunden

Revisit Florida at a time when children were much more at home in the wild. The balmy northeast corner of the state, filled with lakes and forests primeval, was a camper's paradise. Iconic summer camps like Blanding, Chowenwaw, Echockotee, Immokalee, Montgomery, Keystone, Seminole and Weed played vital roles in the development of countless children. They swapped adventures beneath the stars, a heartening reminder that even the worst days can make the best stories. Join author Dorothy K. Fletcher..

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Hidden History of Lake Winnipesaukee - Bok av Glenn A Knoblock - Inbunden

Hidden History of Lake Winnipesaukee - Bok av Glenn A Knoblock - Inbunden

From the time of the earliest Native Americans, Lake Winnipesaukee has experienced a rich yet often forgotten history. Known by many as America's Oldest Summer Resort, the area's first summer home was built in Wolfeboro by a royal governor. The Massachusetts border once extended all the way to Laconia, while Center Harbor served as the site of the country's first college sports rivalry. Governors Island may now be the summer playground of the elite, but it was once at the center of a religious movement..

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Connecticut's Girls of Summer - Bok av Anthony J Renzoni - Inbunden

Connecticut's Girls of Summer - Bok av Anthony J Renzoni - Inbunden

Connecticut has a long history of producing outstanding sports teams and athletes. Two of the greatest teams to come out of the state are the legendary Brakettes and Falcons women's fast-pitch softball teams. In their seventy-six-year history, the Brakettes are considered the most successful and longest-running organized women's sports franchise of all time. With forty national championships, three world championships and eleven Olympians, their dynasty remains synonymous with softball excellence...

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Troy Strawberry Festival - A History - Bok av David Fong - Inbunden

Troy Strawberry Festival - A History - Bok av David Fong - Inbunden

Beginning modestly in 1977, the Troy Strawberry Festival now attracts more than 100,000 people for food and fun. The dream of one man grew into one of the largest festivals in the Midwest and has been named the best summer festival in the state by Ohio Magazine. With events like the strawberry pie eating contest and Strawberry Queen pageant, the festival has long signaled the start of summer. Lifelong Troy resident and former journalist David Fong presents the story of the sights, sounds and tastes..

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Oswego's Camp Hollis - Haven by the Lake - Bok av Jim Farfaglia - Inbunden

Oswego's Camp Hollis - Haven by the Lake - Bok av Jim Farfaglia - Inbunden

On a tree-covered bluff overlooking Lake Ontario, a summer camp has been a haven for children for nearly a century. Originally known as the Oswego County Health Camp and then as Camp Hollis, the retreat has brought joy to thousands of campers throughout the region. It was founded by a doctor working to create a summer getaway for children at risk of contracting tuberculosis in the early 1900s. In the 1940s, a family court judge believed deeply in the camp''s ability to improve the lives of children..

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Lost Ski Areas of Tahoe and Donner - Bok av Ingrid P Wicken - Inbunden

Lost Ski Areas of Tahoe and Donner - Bok av Ingrid P Wicken - Inbunden

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Lake Tahoe and the Donner Summit region became California's first developed winter sports areas. Plentiful snowfall and newly built highways opened up the summer playground for visitors year-round, and skiing flourished. The Sierra Ski Club formed in 1925, attracting members eager to experience everything the mountains had to offer. People flocked to the slopes, visiting places like Clair Tappaan Lodge in Soda Springs, boasting one of the summit's earliest..

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Atlanta's Olympic Resurgence - How the 1996 Games Revived a Struggling City - Bok av Michael Dobbins, Leon S Eplan, m.fl. - Inbunden

Atlanta's Olympic Resurgence - How the 1996 Games Revived a Struggling City - Bok av Michael Dobbins, Leon S Eplan, m.fl. - Inbunden

The summer of 1996. In nineteen days, six million visitors jostled about in a southern city grappling with white flight, urban decay and the stifling legacy of Jim Crow. Six years earlier, a bold, audacious partnership of a strong mayor, enlightened business leaders and Atlanta's Black political leadership dared to bid on hosting the 1996 Olympic Games. Unexpectedly, the city won, an achievement that ignited a loose but robust coalition that worked collectively, if sometimes contentiously, to prepare..

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Guide to Historic Burial Grounds in Newport - Bok av Lewis Keen - Inbunden

Guide to Historic Burial Grounds in Newport - Bok av Lewis Keen - Inbunden

While now known as America's summer playground, Newport was at one time the nation's fifth-largest seaport, containing a diverse population that is reflected in its burial sites. Of special significance is the largest marked site for eighteenth-century African Americans in the country, as well as the oldest surviving colonial Jewish burial site. Notable burials include those for William Ellery, who signed the Declaration of Independence, and Richard Morris Hunt, the eminent nineteenth-century architect...

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Yellow Fever on Galveston Island - Bok av Jan Johnson - Inbunden

Yellow Fever on Galveston Island - Bok av Jan Johnson - Inbunden

Jan Johnson provides a definitive account of Galveston's fight against outbreaks of Yellow Fever, which transformed an island paradise into the City of Dreadful Death.In the summer of Galveston's founding year, a mysterious malady accompanied by black vomit descended upon the inhabitants. Names for the devastating plague came quick and fast as the body count rose. Saffron Scourge. Bronze John. Yellow Jack. Yellow Fever. The disease's cause and cure remained elusive, as did the medical institutions..

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21st Pennsylvania Cavalry - Bok av Britt Charles Isenberg - Inbunden

21st Pennsylvania Cavalry - Bok av Britt Charles Isenberg - Inbunden

Hailing from the south-central region of the state, the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry was forged during the Gettysburg Campaign in the third summer of the Civil War. Its charismatic officers included William H. Boyd and Oliver B. Knowles, who had honed their fighting prowess earlier in the war against fearsome Confederate tacticians John Mosby and John Imboden. The regiment's war record was dynamic and arduous, including service under Meade and Grant at Cold Harbor as infantry and making the last charge..

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Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes - Bok av Dianna Higgs Stampfler - Inbunden

Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes - Bok av Dianna Higgs Stampfler - Inbunden

The author of Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses shares tales of disaster and misfortune on the Great Lakes. Losing one's life while tending to a Great Lakes lighthouse sadly wasn't such an unusual occurrence. Death by murder, suicide or other tragic causes--while rare--were not unheard of. Two keepers on Lake Superior's Grand Island disappeared one early summer day in 1908, their decomposed remains found weeks later. A newly hired and some say depressed keeper on Pilot Island in Wisconsin's Door County..

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Lake Waubeeka - A Community History - Bok av Jeffrey S Gurock - Inbunden

Lake Waubeeka - A Community History - Bok av Jeffrey S Gurock - Inbunden

In 1951, a small group of Jewish firefighters from New York City established a summer colony called Lake Waubeeka in Danbury, Connecticut. Today, it is a religiously, ethnically and racially diversified community of some 250 families. The vision of its founders was to create a bucolic environment away from the grit and grime of the metropolitan area. While Waubeekans did not always agree on the directions life on their mountain might take, a profound community spirit bonded homeowners. Over recent..

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Hidden History of Islip Town - Bok av Jack Whitehouse - Inbunden

Hidden History of Islip Town - Bok av Jack Whitehouse - Inbunden

The patchwork of beach towns, villages and hamlets that make up Islip Town represents some of the most historic communities on the whole of Long Island. Local Secatogue Native Americans harrowingly saved the Dutch survivors of one of New York's first shipwrecks in 1657. New York City's infamous Tammany Hall leased an entire summer resort island in Islip Town for decades. In 1912, a young woman from Sayville sacrificed her own life for another on the RMS Titanic. Islip Town's founding father, William..

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Shark Attacks of New York - A History - Bok av Robert Heyer & Patricia Heyer - Inbunden

Shark Attacks of New York - A History - Bok av Robert Heyer & Patricia Heyer - Inbunden

New York's crowded beaches can come to halt with the shout of a single word: shark! The shores of Long Island and Staten Island and the waters surrounding Manhattan have had more than thirty shark attacks recorded since the days of New Amsterdam. Legend has it that Antony Van Corlear, Peter Stuyvesant's trusted deputy, was killed by a shark crossing Spuyten Duyvil Creek while blowing his famed trumpet. In the summer of 1916, after a series of bloody encounters along the Jersey Shore, sharks terrorized..

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Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks - Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland - Bok av John Railey - Inbunden

Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks - Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland - Bok av John Railey - Inbunden

In the summer of 1967, nineteen-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work in the outdoor drama The Lost Colony. Her body was found five days later, floating in the sound. This riveting narrative, built on unique access to the state investigative file and multiple interviews with insiders, searches for the truth of her unsolved murder. This island odyssey of discovery includes s ances, a suicide and a supposed shallow grave. Journalist John Railey..

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Growing Up in Concord, New Hampshire - Bok av Kathleen Bailey - Inbunden

Growing Up in Concord, New Hampshire - Bok av Kathleen Bailey - Inbunden

In the 1950s and 1960s Concord was technically a city, but it more closely resembled a small town. Remote from the larger world, change was slow to arrive - the stunning death of a popular young President, and a war that would tear the country apart and reassemble it as something nobody recognized. But those innocent decades were a seemingly endless summer, and young residents reveled in it. Riding bikes through the National Guard Armory grounds, hitching a snowy slide on the back of a mail truck..

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Murder in Amish Ohio - The Martyrdom of Paul Coblentz - Bok av David Meyers & Elise Meyers Walker - Inbunden

Murder in Amish Ohio - The Martyrdom of Paul Coblentz - Bok av David Meyers & Elise Meyers Walker - Inbunden

In the summer of 1957, a young Holmes County farmer was gunned down in cold blood. There was little to distinguish this slaying from hundreds of others throughout the United States that year except for one detail: Paul Coblentz was Amish. A committed pacifist, Coblentz would not raise a hand against his killers. As sensational crimes often do, the \Amish murder\ opened a window into the private lives of the young man, his family and his community--a community that in some respects remains as enigmatic..

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Unnatural Ohio - Bok av M Kristina Smith - Inbunden

Unnatural Ohio - Bok av M Kristina Smith - Inbunden

Strange things are afoot in the Buckeye State Across city and country, Ohio echoes with tales of creatures, ghosts, and other unexplained phenomena. A monster that appeared to be half man and half dog and wielding a 2-by-4 terrorized a small Northwest Ohio town during the summer of 1972. Over the years, visitors to a quiet Cincinnati suburb claim to have been accosted by a human-size, leathery frogman lurking near the riverbank. For generations, hikers and hunters have reported seeing Bigfoot throughout..

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Brockport Murder Dog Trial - Bizarre Tragedy and Spectacle on the Erie Canal - Bok av Bill Hullfish & Laurie Fortune Verbridge - Inbunden

Brockport Murder Dog Trial - Bizarre Tragedy and Spectacle on the Erie Canal - Bok av Bill Hullfish & Laurie Fortune Verbridge - Inbunden

In the summer of 1936, fourteen-year-old Maxwell Breeze was playing in the waters of the Erie Canal in Brockport when a dog jumped into the canal and climbed his back, and the boy drowned. The owner of the dog was served notice to appear at a hearing, at which time a trial was set to determine if the dog should be put down. The unusual case captivated the nation as newspapers from coast to coast covered the story, Paramount Pictures dispatched The Eyes and Ears of the World to film the events and..

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Denville 13 - Murder, Redemption and Forgiveness in Small Town New Jersey - Bok av Peter Zablocki - Inbunden

Denville 13 - Murder, Redemption and Forgiveness in Small Town New Jersey - Bok av Peter Zablocki - Inbunden

Denville in the 1950s was an idyllic place to live, yet a dark chapter in the era's history has remained uncovered. During the summer of 1953, a wealthy traveler with a secret rap sheet as a convicted sex offender arrived in town to continue his misdeeds. A group of thirteen local boys ranging in age from fourteen to twenty-two took it upon themselves to teach the man a lesson and drive him out of town. What resulted was his brutal death and the largest number of people ever indicted for murder in..

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