Biohistory Of Alachua County Florida
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Author |
: Francis William Zettler |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2016-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781561649655 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1561649651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Biohistory of Florida by : Francis William Zettler
Florida has an amazing biohistory. Its fossil record reveals that 8-ton ground sloths, giant beavers, and tiny horses once roamed its 66,000 square miles. Its human history is the story of people who arrived some 12,000 years ago after a journey that took them from Asia across the Bering land bridge and then south across the North American continent. Today, Florida is home to historic St. Augustine, the futuristic Kennedy Space Center, and the mysterious Everglades. Hosting a diverse ecology and a rich human history, Florida now faces a tenuous future as its natural resources are depleted, new species of plants, animals and diseases invade, and climate changes loom. This fascinating biohistory, prehistoric to present-day, and with an eye to the future, is told with verve and clarity. The result is a fascinating story of how they all interrelate.
Author |
: Jonathan Underwood |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780557537389 |
ISBN-13 |
: 055753738X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Underwood Family of Stanly County, North Carolina: A Biography and Genealogy by : Jonathan Underwood
A history of the descendants of Thomas Underwood (who landed in America in 1650) who migrated to North Carolina in 1762. The history primarily pertains to Alexander and Mary Underhill Underwood and their sons Samuel, Joseph, and Henry who made their home in Montgomery County (now Stanly County), North Carolina in 1794. Includes a narrative of each branch of the Underwood family, biographical sketches, proofs of relationship, photographs, maps, and a record of generations down to the present time. Includes an index.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 748 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: YALE:39002064473805 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of North Carolina: North Carolina biography, by special staff of writers by :
Author |
: Ann McCutchan |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2021-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393353501 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393353508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling by : Ann McCutchan
A comprehensive and engaging biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the beloved classic The Yearling. Washington, DC, born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming-of-age novel about a poor central Florida child and his pet fawn—much less one that has become synonymous with Florida literature writ large. Rawlings was a tough, ambitious, and independent woman who refused the conventions of her early-twentieth-century upbringing. Determined to forge a literary career beyond those limitations, she found her voice in the remote, hardscrabble life of Cross Creek, Florida. There, Rawlings purchased a commercial orange grove and discovered a fascinating world out of which to write—and a dialect of the poor, swampland community that the literary world had yet to hear. She employed her sensitive eye, sharp ear for dialogue, and philosophical spirit to bring to life this unknown corner of America in vivid, tender detail, a feat that earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. Her accomplishments came at a price: a failed first marriage, financial instability, a contentious libel suit, alcoholism, and physical and emotional upheaval. With intimate access to Rawlings’s correspondence and revealing early writings, Ann McCutchan uncovers a larger-than-life woman who writes passionately and with verve, whose emotions change on a dime, and who drinks to excess, smokes, swears, and even occasionally joins in on an alligator hunt. The Life She Wished to Live paints a lively portrait of Rawlings, her contemporaries—including her legendary editor, Maxwell Perkins, and friends Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—and the Florida landscape and people that inspired her.
Author |
: Sudye Cauthen |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781930066588 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1930066589 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Southern Comforts by : Sudye Cauthen
The Florida I love is perishing, says Sudye Cauthen. In Southern Comforts, this fifth-generation Floridian blends memoir, oral history, and cultural geography to explore the tensions between community and environment in America today and her own ambivalence about Alachua, the place just north of Gainesville where she was born and reared. Cauthen raises a cry for all that is lost as Florida's--and America's--landscapes and traditions are replaced by interstates, condos, shopping malls, and the new way of life they represent. Part self-reflection, part meditation, and part social analysis, Cauthen's work threads through the stories of blacks, whites, and Native Americans--men and women--including her own family members. Through their words and hers, Cauthen explores northern Florida's unique history, culture, and geography while she seeks a greater understanding of herself and her surroundings. Cauthen's journey takes readers down dirt roads and city streets, to her people's tobacco fields and churches. She sifts sand at an archaeological dig for the lost Spanish mission of Santa Fe de Toloca, peers into an aboriginal grave, and everywhere marshals evidence for the primacy of place in determining who we are. One story takes us on a fox hunt; another reveals lingering racial problems. Permeating the book is the ever-present menace of growth and development and what it holds for Cauthen's Florida.
Author |
: Heather Lang |
Publisher |
: Albert Whitman & Company |
Total Pages |
: 35 |
Release |
: 2016-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807521885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807521884 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Swimming with Sharks by : Heather Lang
2017 Amelia Bloomer List, Early Readers Nonfiction This picture book biography follows the life of Eugenie Clark, the Japanese-American scientist, researcher, and diver, who became famous as "The Shark Lady" for her groundbreaking discoveries about shark behavior. Before Eugenie Clark's groundbreaking research, most people thought sharks were vicious, blood-thirsty killers. From the first time she saw a shark in an aquarium, Japanese-American Eugenie was enthralled. Instead of frightening and ferocious eating machines, she saw sleek, graceful fish gliding through the water. After she became a scientist—an unexpected career path for a woman in the 1940s—she began taking research dives and training sharks, earning her the nickname "The Shark Lady."
Author |
: Corinna Brown Aldrich |
Publisher |
: Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1570035369 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781570035364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Echoes from a Distant Frontier by : Corinna Brown Aldrich
Echoes from a Distant Frontier is an edited, annotated selection of the correspondence of Corinna and Ellen Brown, two single women in their twenties, who left a comfortable New England home in 1835 for the Florida frontier. Within a month of their arrival, the frontier erupted in Indian war. The Browns witnessed the terror and carnage firsthand, and their letters paint a vivid picture of the Second Seminole War (1835-1842).
Author |
: Thomas McAdory Owen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 718 |
Release |
: 1921 |
ISBN-10 |
: YALE:39002003867422 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography by : Thomas McAdory Owen
Author |
: Michael T. Gengler |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 381 |
Release |
: 2018-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781948122177 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1948122170 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis We Can Do It by : Michael T. Gengler
This book tells of the challenges faced by white and black school administrators, teachers, parents, and students as Alachua County, Florida, moved from segregated schools to a single, unitary school system. After Brown v. Board of Education, the South’s separate white and black schools continued under lower court opinions, provided black students could choose to go to white schools. Not until 1968 did the NAACP Legal Defense Fund convince the Supreme Court to end dual school systems. Almost fifty years later, African Americans in Alachua County remain divided over that outcome. A unique study including extensive interviews, We Can Do It asks important questions, among them: How did both races, without precedent, work together to create desegregated schools? What conflicts arose, and how were they resolved (or not)? How was the community affected? And at a time when resegregation and persistent white-black achievement gaps continue to challenge public schools, what lessons can we learn from the generation that desegregated our schools?
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Total Pages |
: 596 |
Release |
: 1909 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:C3545635 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography by :