Milestones & Guideposts of Massachusetts and Southeastern New Hampshire - 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 Milestones & Guideposts of Massachusetts and Southeastern New Hampshire write by Mary E. Gage. This book was released on 2014-02-03. Milestones & Guideposts of Massachusetts and Southeastern New Hampshire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Across Massachusetts, roadsides are dotted with small stone markers giving the mileage to major cities. These ancient road signs called milestones aided travelers during the 1700’s and 1800’s as our road signs today do with their mileage and destination information. Although, these old milestones no longer serve a useful purpose in our modern age of highways, they continue to fascinate us. This fascination has led to the preservation by local communities of at least 129 milestones in Massachusetts and a number of milestones in New Hampshire. Milestones were for the most part commissioned by private citizens and made by local or itinerant stone carvers. With the exception of the turnpike milestones, no two milestones are alike. There are differences in the type of stone chosen, the wording, and the lettering styles of individual carvers. These differences give the milestones personality and character. This sense of character is one of the endearing aspects of these humble road signs that continues to draw us to them. Although some of the milestones like those around Boston and those along the famous Upper Post Road are well known, many are not. The authors have spent a number of years combing through old books and newspapers and traveling through the state in search of these local historical treasures. This book draws together all of their research in an effort to provide a comprehensive inventory of Massachusetts milestones. In addition, it includes milestones the authors have found in their travels through southeastern New Hampshire.
The Art of Splitting Stone
The Art of Splitting Stone - 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 Art of Splitting Stone write by Mary Elaine Gage. This book was released on 2005. The Art of Splitting Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Stage-coach and Tavern Days
Stage-coach and Tavern Days - 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 Stage-coach and Tavern Days write by Alice Morse Earle. This book was released on 1900. Stage-coach and Tavern Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Guide to New England Stone Structures
A Guide to New England Stone Structures - 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 A Guide to New England Stone Structures write by Mary E. Gage. This book was released on 2016-04-04. A Guide to New England Stone Structures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Guide to New England Stone Structures is a basic field guide to identifying the many different types of stone structures found while hiking through the forest and conservation lands in New England.
Disaster Resilience
Disaster Resilience - 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 Disaster Resilience write by National Academies. This book was released on 2012-12-29. Disaster Resilience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financial disasters in addition to natural hazards can all lead to large-scale consequences for the nation and its communities. Communities and the nation thus face difficult fiscal, social, cultural, and environmental choices about the best ways to ensure basic security and quality of life against hazards, deliberate attacks, and disasters. Beyond the unquantifiable costs of injury and loss of life from disasters, statistics for 2011 alone indicate economic damages from natural disasters in the United States exceeded $55 billion, with 14 events costing more than a billion dollars in damages each. One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience-the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative addresses the broad issue of increasing the nation's resilience to disasters. This book defines "national resilience", describes the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters, and frames the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States. It also provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience and outlines additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters. Additionally, the book's authoring committee makes recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States. Enhanced resilience allows better anticipation of disasters and better planning to reduce disaster losses-rather than waiting for an event to occur and paying for it afterward. Disaster Resilience confronts the topic of how to increase the nation's resilience to disasters through a vision of the characteristics of a resilient nation in the year 2030. Increasing disaster resilience is an imperative that requires the collective will of the nation and its communities. Although disasters will continue to occur, actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and economic burdens that disasters can cause.
