North Baltimore and Its Neighbors - 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 North Baltimore and Its Neighbors write by Thomas W. Boltz. This book was released on 2009-07-13. North Baltimore and Its Neighbors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Located 25 miles south of Toledo, North Baltimore and its neighboring communities have seen dramatic changes since being settled in the 1830s. Pioneers labored to establish small farms and villages in the midst of what was then the Black Swamp, gradually achieving modest but precarious success. Then, in the 1880s, oil was discovered. The area flourished, attracting speculators, turning farmers into millionaires, and transforming quiet villages into rough-and-tumble boomtowns. It was a colorful period that also brought large homes, imposing commercial buildings, and grand town halls. However, by 1915, the oil field was depleted, and North Baltimore and its neighbors returned to their existence as quiet towns. Since then, many of the beautiful old buildings have disappeared, obscuring evidence of the areas dynamic history. With over 200 pictures, many from private collections, North Baltimore and Its Neighbors helps ensure that this history will not be forgotten.
The North Baltimore Stories
The North Baltimore Stories - 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 North Baltimore Stories write by Peter Latrobe Heyrman. This book was released on 2007. The North Baltimore Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Twilight Zone writer, Peter Latrobe Heyrman, a twisted romp through North Baltimore and the world. This is where horror meets crooked comedy. "Heyrman writes prose the way Tiger Woods swings a golf club, with the kind of substance that most authors only dream about." Greg Kihn, author of the Bram Stoker-nominated novel, "Horror Show."
Remington
Remington - 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 Remington write by Kathleen C. Ambrose. This book was released on 2013-07-02. Remington available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The North Baltimore neighborhood of Remington has a proud and industrious history. Stone from its quarries built the foundations of homes in the city, and the Jones Falls turned its mills to feed hungry immigrants who found a home in the neighborhood. By the end of World War II, the population of the area began to decline, yet through floods, depressions and even a mosquito plague, generations of residents remained in the neighborhood to help build a tightknit community. Drawing on interviews with locals and her own meticulous research, historian and neighborhood resident Kathleen C. Ambrose chronicles the history of Remington. Join Ambrose as she journeys from Remington's earliest days through the twentieth century--and even as she takes a glimpse at the future of this vibrant community.
Secret Baltimore: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Secret Baltimore: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure - 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 Secret Baltimore: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure write by Evan Balkan. This book was released on 2020-10-01. Secret Baltimore: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Where in Baltimore did the most decorated female spy in American history go to school? Why are Dorothy Parker’s ashes sitting in a memorial garden at the old NAACP headquarters? And which notorious gangster planted cherry trees in Charm City that are still in bloom today? You’ll find answers to the questions you didn’t even know you had in Secret Baltimore: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. Learn about the connection between the Frank Zappa statue in front of the Enoch Pratt and free-thinkers in Lithuania or about the blind soccer team in Baltimore with a national championship title. From Lamar Jackson’s favorite dessert spot to where Edgar Allan Poe took his last steps and from the childhood home of the nation’s first African-American Supreme Court Justice to a burlesque bar that inspired a Paul Newman movie, you’ll find no shortage of weird, wonderful, and obscure in Maryland’s largest city. Local writer and professor Evan Balkan provides your expert introduction to the poets, gangsters, abolitionists, domestic terrorists, singers, assassins, athletes, and everyone in between who have called his city home. With his book as your guide, you’ll get to know an entirely new side of Charm City.
Living Sustainably
Living Sustainably - 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 Living Sustainably write by A. Whitney Sanford. This book was released on 2017-06-16. Living Sustainably available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom to craft their own societies and live out Mohandas K. Gandhi's vision of democracy based on the values of nonviolence, self-sufficiency, equality, and voluntary simplicity. Over the course of four years, A. Whitney Sanford visited ecovillages, cohousing communities, and Catholic worker houses and farms where individuals are striving to "be the change they wish to see in the world." In this book, she reveals the solutions that these communities have devised for sustainable living while highlighting the specific choices and adaptations that they have made to accommodate local context and geography. She examines their methods of reviving and adapting traditional agrarian skills, testing alternate building materials for their homes, and developing local governments that balance group needs and individual autonomy. Living Sustainably is a teachable testament to the idea that new cultures based on justice and sustainability are attainable in many ways and in countless homes and communities. Sanford's engaging and insightful work demonstrates that citizens can make a conscious effort to subsist in a more balanced, harmonious world.
