Tinicum & Eastwick - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tinicum & Eastwick write by Will Caverly. This book was released on 2024-12-31. Tinicum & Eastwick available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When plans to overhaul Southwest Philadelphia in the 1950s scheduled both the integrated neighborhood of Eastwick and the ecologically valuable Tinicum marshes to be razed, two grassroots movements took up the cause—battling eminent domain in the name of environmental conservation and economic injustice. In the 1950s, city planners eager to change the face of Philadelphia had designs on the city’s southwest. They planned to raze the integrated neighborhood of Eastwick and level the ecologically valuable Tinicum marshlands to make room for a new “city within a city.” In response, two grassroots movements began a resistance that spanned decades—battling eminent domain in the name of environmental conservation and economic injustice. The Eastwick neighborhood’s resistance to the project was racially diverse and working class in nature. Led by housewives, they went toe to toe with a government bureaucracy hungry for progress. As Eastwick rallied to defend itself, a parallel grassroots effort by bird watchers desperately worked to save the embattled Tinicum marshes. These unspoiled remains of Pennsylvania’s last freshwater tidal marsh were home to hundreds of threatened species of wildlife. Amid protest marches and bomb threats, political intrigue and outrage, a question emerged that would forever influence the region. Who deserves a home: wildlife or human beings? Through oral history and exhaustive research, Tinicum & Eastwick documents one of the most egregious civil-rights violations in Pennsylvania history, as well as one of the state’s greatest environmental triumphs. Author Will Caverly confronts the intersection of eminent domain and environment, told through the struggles everyday residents of Southeastern Pennsylvania endured to pursue justice.
Philadelphia Builders Eastwick Corporation Presents a Proposal for Redeveloping Eastwick Urban Renewal Area
Philadelphia Builders Eastwick Corporation Presents a Proposal for Redeveloping Eastwick Urban Renewal Area - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philadelphia Builders Eastwick Corporation Presents a Proposal for Redeveloping Eastwick Urban Renewal Area write by Philadelphia Builders Eastwick Corporation. This book was released on 1960*. Philadelphia Builders Eastwick Corporation Presents a Proposal for Redeveloping Eastwick Urban Renewal Area available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Eastwick Letters
Eastwick Letters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eastwick Letters write by David J Knapp. This book was released on . Eastwick Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. EASTWICK LETTERS transcribes and illustrates 117 individual sheets written 1844–51 by Andrew McCalla Eastwick, his wife Lydia, their children, and business associates as the family set up works, and home in 19th century St. Petersburg, Russia. Eastwick was one of three partners in the Philadelphia firm of Harrison, Winans & Eastwick. The business had been awarded a $3 million/ five-year contract to build rolling stock, (locomotive engines and cars) for Czar Nicholas I for a railroad to connect St. Petersburg and Moscow. The enterprise required Eastwick and partners to take possession of a large Imperial industrial complex on the Neva River, known as Alexandroffsky Head Mechanical Works. Once in operation they were to use serf labor and Russian materials to fulfill the contract. Concurrently, Major George Washington Whistler (West Point civil engineer and father of the famous artist), was to oversee the construction of the 420 miles of railway track and railbed required. Presented chronologically and extensively illustrated, EASTWICK LETTERS opens a window into the private emotions of the writers, and illustrates a colorful story of Russian life and times at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. More so than early photographs, the letters vividly reveal the inner thoughts of each writer, and what they observed in a foreign land. In 1851 the Eastwick family returned to Philadelphia where Andrew purchased Bartram’s Garden along the Schuylkill River and saved it from industrial development. Years later after Andrew’s passing, Lydia Eastwick bequeathed the property to the City of Philadelphia where today, Bartram’s Garden is a landmark. The conservatory is open to the public and carries on the legacy of John Bartram, first American botanist to the Colonies.
Eastwick, Philadelphia
Eastwick, Philadelphia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eastwick, Philadelphia write by Doxiadis Associates. This book was released on 195?. Eastwick, Philadelphia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Witches of Eastwick
The Witches of Eastwick - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Witches of Eastwick write by John Updike. This book was released on 2012-03-13. The Witches of Eastwick available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.”—The New York Times Book Review Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick—and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche. “A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.”—Newsday
