Tales from the Land Between the Lakes of Western Kentucky - 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 Tales from the Land Between the Lakes of Western Kentucky write by Clent Colson. This book was released on 2001-12. Tales from the Land Between the Lakes of Western Kentucky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Land Between the Lakes
Land Between the Lakes - 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 Land Between the Lakes write by Frank E. Smith. This book was released on 2021-10-21. Land Between the Lakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Land Between the Lakes Recreation Area lies in western Kentucky and Tennessee, between two huge lakes formed by dams on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Some 170,000 acres bounded by 300 miles of shoreline, Land Between the Lakes is blessed with a rich variety of plant and animal life. Conceived and administrated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, it is a unique recreational experiment which has drawn admiring visitors from around the world. Frank E. Smith, director of TVA, tells the story of the transformation of submarginal land into a large-scale, multiple-use recreation facility that provides recreation and entertainment for thousands of visitors as well as producing a positive, dynamic stimulus to the continued economic development of the entire Tennessee Valley. Planned for fullest use of human and land resources, Land Between the Lakes is of utmost importance to recreational planners, conservation specialists, administrators, and to millions of Americans who seek their recreation in the out of doors.
The Land Between the Lakes
The Land Between the Lakes - 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 Land Between the Lakes write by Ronald A. Foresta. This book was released on 2013-10-30. The Land Between the Lakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is the first full-scale look at LBL, which has been managed by the TVA since its beginning. In part environmental history, this book focuses on public policy issues and the successes and failures of New Deal and then Great Society programs and concentrates fairly intensively on public planning"--
Drowned Town
Drowned Town - 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 Drowned Town write by Jayne Moore Waldrop. This book was released on 2021-10-26. Drowned Town available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "They had been told their sacrifice was for the public good. They were never told how much they would miss it, or for how long." Drowned Town explores the multigenerational impact caused by the loss of home and illuminates the joys and sorrows of a group of people bound together by western Kentucky's Land Between the Lakes and the lakes that lie on either side of it. The linked stories are rooted in a landscape forever altered by the mid-twentieth-century impoundment of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers and the seizing of property under the power of eminent domain to create a national recreation area on the narrow strip of land between the lakes. The massive federal land and water projects completed in quick succession were designed to serve the public interest by providing hydroelectric power, flood control, and economic progress for the region—at great sacrifice for those who gave up their homes, livelihoods, towns, and history. The narrative follows two women whose lives are shaped by their friendship and connection to the place, and their stories go back and forth in time to show how the creation of the lakes both healed and hurt the people connected to them. In the process, the stories emphasize the importance of sisterhood and family, both blood and created, and how we cannot separate ourselves from our places in the world.
Tales of Kentucky Ghosts
Tales of Kentucky Ghosts - 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 Tales of Kentucky Ghosts write by William Montell. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Tales of Kentucky Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable pastime in America. The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in many ways: they traveled with a black orchestra, had an openly lesbian manager, and were animal-rights advocates decades before it became a public issue. Irene was also a fashion innovator, bobbing her hair ten years before the flapper look of the 1920s became popular. From their marriage in 1911 until 1916, the Castles were the most famous and influential dance team in the world. Their dancing schools and nightclubs were packed with society figures and white-collar workers alike. After their peak of white-hot fame, Vernon enlisted in the Royal Canadian Flying Corps, served at the front lines, and was killed in a 1918 airplane crash. Irene became a movie star and appeared in more than a dozen films between 1917 and 1922. The Castles were depicted in the Fred Astaire–Ginger Rogers movie The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), but the film omitted most of the interesting and controversial aspects of their lives. They were more complex than posterity would have it: Vernon was charming but irresponsible, Irene was strong-minded but self-centered, and the couple had filed for divorce before Vernon’s death (information that has never before been made public). Vernon and Irene Castle’s Ragtime Revolution is the fascinating story of a couple who reinvented dance and its place in twentieth-century culture.
