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Under Mountain Shadows
From her world-famous dude ranch in Washington state's Yakima County, Kay Kershaw exerted tremendous influence on conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest and, tangentially, on LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. After gaining local renown in sports and aviation, she established the ranch at Goose Prairie with her first partner, Pat Kane--a fraught undertaking in a region closely associated with the John Birch Society. Operating under the guise of two "spinsters," Kershaw and her later life-partner Isabelle Lynn guarded their privacy closely, but local encroachment by the U.S. Forest Service and the timber industry forced them into the public arena as environmentalists. In partnership w...
Family Record and Biography
Ancestors of the McCormick family were of Scotch-Irish lineage, strict Presbyterians in religious belief. James McCormick of Londonderry, Ireland was the progenitor of those who emigrated to America. Some came by way of Philadelphia, others landed at Charleston, South Carolina. McCormicks were residing in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania prior to 1750. The author has dedicated this McCormick family genealogy to his father, Robert McCormick, inventor of the reaper.
Communities of Sense
Communities of Sense argues for a new understanding of the relation between politics and aesthetics in today’s globalized and image-saturated world. Established and emerging scholars of art and culture draw on Jacques Rancière’s theorization of democratic politics to suggest that aesthetics, traditionally defined as the “science of the sensible,” is not a depoliticized discourse or theory of art, but instead part of a historically specific organization of social roles and communality. Rather than formulating aesthetics as the Other to politics, the contributors show that aesthetics and politics are mutually implicated in the construction of communities of visibility and sensation th...
Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania, 1755-1855
Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania, 1755-1855 by John Blair Linn, first published in 1877, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Pennsylvania: Genealogies Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German
This volume is the author's contribution to the Genealogy of his native state. It is the result of years of conscientious labor in this neglected field of our State History, and comprises only a portion of the material which he has gathered. On the reception of this volume, with its limited edition, will depend, in a measure, whether another volume shall follow.
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