Finding Solace in the Soil - 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 Finding Solace in the Soil write by Bonnie J. Clark. This book was released on 2020-12-07. Finding Solace in the Soil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finding Solace in the Soil tells the largely unknown story of the gardens of Amache, the War Relocation Authority incarceration camp in Colorado. Combining physical evidence with oral histories and archival data and enriched by the personal photographs and memories of former Amache incarcerees, the book describes how gardeners cultivated community in confinement. Before incarceration, many at Amache had been farmers, gardeners, or nursery workers. Between 1942 and 1945, they applied their horticultural expertise to the difficult high plains landscape of southeastern Colorado. At Amache they worked to form microclimates, reduce blowing sand, grow better food, and achieve stability and preserve community at a time of dehumanizing dispossession. In this book archaeologist Bonnie J. Clark examines botanical data like seeds, garden-related artifacts, and other material evidence found at Amache, as well as oral histories from survivors and archival data including personal letters and government records, to recount how the prisoners of Amache transformed the harsh military setting of the camp into something resembling a town. She discusses the varieties of gardens found at the site, their place within Japanese and Japanese American horticultural traditions, and innovations brought about by the creative use of limited camp resources. The gardens were regarded by the incarcerees as a gift to themselves and to each other. And they were also, it turns out, a gift to the future as repositories of generational knowledge where a philosophical stance toward nature was made manifest through innovation and horticultural skill. Framing the gardens and gardeners of Amache within the larger context of the incarceration of Japanese Americans and of recent scholarship on displacement and confinement, Finding Solace in the Soil will be of interest to gardeners, historical archaeologists, landscape archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and scholars of Japanese American history and horticultural history.
Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island
Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island - 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 Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island write by Melanie Choukas-Bradley. This book was released on 2020-08-28. Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'She lets us see the often chaotic and nature-starved modern world through the eyes of our foremost conservation president ...a view that is at once uplifting and provocative, but always fascinating.' Tony Flemming, Geologist and co-author, Geologic Map of the Washington West Quadrangle, Oct 24, 2020 Washington D.C. naturalist Melanie Choukas-Bradley dives into the natural history and beauty of Theodore Roosevelt Island, an island wilderness less than two miles from the White House and a memorial to the United States' foremost conservationist president. In 2016, as the presidential election dealt a body-blow to progressive thinkers in the US, Melanie sought the solace of Theodore Roosevelt Island. In this book she reflects on the inspiring environmental legacy of Roosevelt, and how immersing oneself in nature can help to heal, restore and encourage a person, even in the midst of the strange new reality of a divisive occupant in the White House. Melanie leads the reader along walks and kayak trips around the island, as together with other Washingtonian nature lovers, birders, conservationists, and even descendants of Roosevelt, they find solace in the island's natural wonders, and ponder their nation's future. Includes a foreword by Tom Lovejoy, Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation.
The Sidekick Comes of Age
The Sidekick Comes of Age - 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 Sidekick Comes of Age write by Stephen M. Zimmerly. This book was released on 2019-04-09. The Sidekick Comes of Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literary sidekicks like Dr. Watson and Robin the Boy Wonder have not been the singular subject of a significant critical study—until now. Using young adult literature (YA) to study the sidekick reveals new and exciting ways to understand these kinds of characters and this kind of literature. YA has embraced the sidekick, recognizing the way the character reflects the importance of growth and finding one’s place in the world. The nature of many YA texts allows sidekicks to grow beyond literary or historical origins. This includes letting sidekicks “evolve” over the course of multiple texts, using parallel novels to add complexity to a sidekick’s characterization, and telling a story from the sidekick’s perspective, paradoxically making the sidekick the hero. A singularly focused and prolonged study helps to establish sidekick scholarship as a burgeoning field in and of itself.
Tomorrow
Tomorrow - 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 Tomorrow write by Eileen Jeanette Garrett. This book was released on 1944. Tomorrow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Historical Archaeology of Childhood and Parenting
Historical Archaeology of Childhood and Parenting - 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 Historical Archaeology of Childhood and Parenting write by April Kamp-Whittaker. This book was released on . Historical Archaeology of Childhood and Parenting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
