Smokelore - 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 Smokelore write by Jim Auchmutey. This book was released on 2019-06-01. Smokelore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Barbecue: It’s America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, the colonial era, slavery, the Civil War, the settling of the West, the coming of immigrants, the Great Migration, the rise of the automobile, the expansion of suburbia, the rejiggering of gender roles. It encompasses every region and demographic group. It is entwined with our politics and tangled up with our race relations. Jim Auchmutey follows the delicious and contentious history of barbecue in America from the ox roast that celebrated the groundbreaking for the U.S. Capitol building to the first barbecue launched into space almost two hundred years later. The narrative covers the golden age of political barbecues, the evolution of the barbecue restaurant, the development of backyard cooking, and the recent rediscovery of traditional barbecue craft. Along the way, Auchmutey considers the mystique of barbecue sauces, the spectacle of barbecue contests, the global influences on American barbecue, the roles of race and gender in barbecue culture, and the many ways barbecue has been portrayed in our art and literature. It’s a spicy story that involves noted Americans from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama.
The Class of '65
The Class of '65 - 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 Class of '65 write by Jim Auchmutey. This book was released on 2015-03-31. The Class of '65 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, whose members devoutly and publicly supported racial equality. When he refused to insult and attack his school's first black students in 1964, Greg was mistreated as badly as they were: harassed and bullied and beaten. In the summer after his senior year, as racial strife in Americus -- and the nation -- reached its peak, Greg left Georgia. Forty-one years later, a dozen former classmates wrote letters to Greg, asking his forgiveness and inviting him to return for a class reunion. Their words opened a vein of painful memory and unresolved emotion, and set him on a journey that would prove healing and saddening. The Class of '65 is more than a heartbreaking story from the segregated South. It is also about four of Greg's classmates -- David Morgan, Joseph Logan, Deanie Dudley, and Celia Harvey -- who came to reconsider the attitudes they grew up with. How did they change? Why, half a lifetime later, did reaching out to the most despised boy in school matter to them? This noble book reminds us that while ordinary people may acquiesce to oppression, we all have the capacity to alter our outlook and redeem ourselves.
420 Smokelore
420 Smokelore - 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 420 Smokelore write by Guy Perry. This book was released on 2018-02-06. 420 Smokelore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With nearly a quarter of a billion Google search results, 420 is the most popular number in the world. Yet the truth surrounding the history, meaning, and origin of 420 remains shrouded in mystery. How was 420 born? What is 420? Most importantly, who actually created 420?Author Guy Perry, who grew up in the San Rafael, California neighborhood of Peacock Gap where 420 was born in October 1970, delivers an engaging and hilarious insider's account of the people, places, and events behind the invention of the globally iconic "secret code" for marijuana.420 Smokelore cuts through the smoky haze of myths and deceptions to reveal the true history of 420 and the true identity of the teenage prankster extraordinaire who invented a Pop Culture phenomenon.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office - 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 Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office write by United States. Patent Office. This book was released on 1928. Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Keepers of the Flame
Keepers of the Flame - 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 Keepers of the Flame write by Robert M. Hazen. This book was released on 2014-07-14. Keepers of the Flame available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "For, Lo! We live in an Iron Age--In the age of Steam and Fire!" wrote a poet mesmerized by the engines that were transforming American transportation, agriculture, and industry during his lifetime. Indeed, by the nineteenth century fire had become America's leitmotif--for good and for ill. "Keeping the flame" was deadly serious: even the slightest lapse of attention could convert a fire from friendly ally to ravaging destroyer. To examine the cultural context of fire in "combustible America," Margaret Hazen and Robert Hazen gather more than a hundred illustrations, most never before published, together with anecdotes and information from hundreds of original sources, including newspapers, diaries, company records, popular fiction, art, and music. What results is an immensely entertaining and encyclopedic history that ranges from stories of the tragic "great fires" of the century to fire imagery in folktales and popular literature. Dealing more with technology than with fire in nature, the book provides a vast amount of information on fire manipulation and prevention in urban life. Hazen and Hazen discuss the people who worked with fire--or against it. Founders, gaffers, blacksmiths, boilers at saltworks, and housewives knew how to "read" a fire and employ it for their purposes. A few dedicated investigators inquired about the scientific nature of heat and flame. And firefighters gradually progressed from "bucket brigades" to "using fire to fight fire" with the newly invented steam engine. The colorful stories of these Americans--the risks they took and the rewards they received--will fascinate not only social historians but also a broad audience of general readers. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
