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July features Americana
books and links!
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
---Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855 edition) Preface
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Haunted
America
by Michael Norman and Beth Scott
133.10973 Sco
Haunted America will take you on a grand tour of ghostly haunting through
the US and Canada, sweeping you from the terrifying battlefield specters
at Little Big Horn to a vaudeville palace in Tampa, from ghostly
apparitions in President Garfield's home in Ohio to the White House in
Washington, DC.
The
Foxfire Book
edited by Eliot Wigginton
390.09 Wig
1n 1966, during his first year of teaching ninth and tenth grade English
at a 250-pupil high school in the Appalachian Mountains of Northeastern
Georgia, Wigginton and his students founded a quarterly magazine they
named Foxfire, after a phosphorescent lichen. The magazine featured
interviews by students with the older community residents about
Appalachian traditions, folklore, and material culture. In 1972, a
selection of articles from the magazine was published in book form and the
Foxfire Book, and multi-volume series, was born. A wonderful
collection of folk wisdom and a positive philosophy of what is basic to
life.
This
Old Farm: A Treasury of Family Farm Memories
edited by Michael Dregni
630.97 Thi
Filled with wonderful, heart-warming stories, essays, and great
photography and artwork recounting life on the family farm, this book
provides an entertaining, yet educational, mirror into the past.
The
American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Marshall B. Davidson and Elizabeth Stillinger
709.73 Dav
The American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum is home to America's most
important and wide ranging collection of the painting, sculpture, and
decorative arts that have flourished in this country since our earliest
days. Brilliantly photographed and discussed are: seventeen of the
famous period rooms; furniture of four centuries; lamps, dished, vessels,
and ornamental pieces of many different materials; and paintings, prints,
drawings, and watercolors spanning the history of the nation.
Early
American Herb Recipes
by Alice Cooke Brown
641.6 Bro
Over 500 authentic herb recipes reproduced exactly as they appeared in their
original sources. Includes are recipes for medicinals, beverages,
confections, conserves, dyes, fish, fowl, furniture polish, gravies and
sauces, insecticides, meat, pastries, cakes and pies, puddings, pickles,
salads, soup, spot removers, toiletries, perfumes, pomatum, vegetables and
vinegar. The recipes, sometimes quaint, but always serious, reflect
the tremendous importance of herbs to the survival of our forefathers. and
afford factual insight into vital aspects of early American life from the
18th century through the Civil War.
The
Old Barn Book: A Field Guide to North American Barns and Other Farm
Structures
by Allen Noble and illustrations by M. Margaret Geib
728.922 Nob
From hat barns to corn cribs, from fences to chicken coops, from silos to
outhouses, this book's clear drawings, photos, maps, and descriptions make
it easy to figure out what's around a farm. Special lists tell you
what kinds of farm buildings to look for in each part of the US and
Canada.
American
Folk Sculpture
by Robert Bishop
735.2 Bis
All who are interested in the world of art will find in this book reasons
why American folk sculpture demands such devoted interest. Folk
sculpture is uniquely American. At its best it is an honest and
straightforward expression of the spirit of a people.
American
Ballads & Folk Songs
collected and compiled by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax
784.4 Lom
An American classic collection of folk music. Included are sections
on working the railroad, the levee camp, songs from Southern chain gangs,
songs from the mountains, the blues, reels, songs of childhood, cowboy
songs, the miner, the Erie Canal, sailors and sea fights, wars and
soldiers, spirituals, and many more. A must for anyone interested in
American folk music.
A
Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Speilberg, Altman
by Robert Kolker
791.43 Kol
In this twentieth anniversary edition, Kolker continues his inquiry into
the cinematic representations of culture by updating and revising the
chapters on these directors to include their most important works since
1988. Placing the films of these influential artist in an
ideological perspective, the author both illuminates their relationship to
one another and to the larger currents in our culture and emphasizes the
statements their films make about American society.
Television
in America: a Pictorial History
by Thomas G. Aylesworth
791.45 Ayl
An illustrated overview of American television including chapters on
variety shows, situation comedies, crime shows, science fictions shows,
adventure shows, dramas, soaps, westerns, children's shows, doctor shows,
games shows, and the news.
The
Stars and the Stripes: the American Flag as Art and as History from the
Birth of the Republic to the Present
by Bolesaw and Marie-Louise D'Otrange Mastai
929.9 Mas
Shows us our national flag, in all its various and surprising incarnations
through two hundred years, as folk art, as a profoundly moving expression
of the feelings of generations of Americans about the vents and spirit of
the growth of the country. Like the masterpieces of quilting and
other American folk arts, the old handmade flags display an amazing
freedom of color and design.
America
Then and Now
by Sherry Marker
973 Mar
By contrasting the photographs of the present with those of the past, this
book show how much the nation has changed. Here are the monuments of
the past that have survived the years, but whose current surroundings
reflect the intervening decades. A visual guide to our history, from
the ever-changing skyline of Manhattan to the hardly changed streets of
Deadwood. The images collected here give the reader a perspective on
America's past and a unique understanding of how it became our future.
Vanishing
Breed: Photographs of the Cowboy and the West
by William Albert Allard
978 All
The 104 color photographs in this book offer an intimate and revealing
portrait of the cowboy, whose real nature has long been obscured by myth
and make-believe. Captured by Allard's camera is the true spirit of
the American west: cowboys spattered with mud after a spill from a bucking
saddle-bronco, rodeo queens before a beauty contest, a lone rider
galloping across a rugged landscape of sagebrush and mountains.
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