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Fighting to Protect the Highlands: The First
Forty Years of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy by David P. Elkinton
Defending the scenic mountains of West Virginia
against an array of developmental forces has been the mission of a small,
volunteer citizens’ group for forty years. Preserving free-flowing rivers
against ill-advised, government-sponsored dams; establishing some of the very
first Congressionally-designated Wilderness areas in the eastern United States;
and sustaining a forty-year struggle against both the mining industry and its
governmental allies are but the highlights of the first forty years of the West
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From Sacred Servant to Profane Prostitute: A History of the Changing
Legal Status of the Devadasis in India, 1857 - 1947.
Kay K. Jordan,
Published by Ajay Kumar Jain for Manohar Publishers & Distributors (India)
Discusses the evolution of a modern Indian worldview
toward devadasis in the Hindu religion. |
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The War Diaries of Sgt. Robert L. Covington: November 1942 -- February
1945. (60th Fighter Squadron, 33rd Fighter Group, U.S. Army Air Corps)
Robert L. Covington.
His diaries are personal accounts of ground and air activities of one of
the most traveled fighter groups in World War II, the "Fighting Nomads."
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The Smithfield Review, Studies in the
history of the region west of the Blue Ridge, edited and published by
the Montgomery County Branch, APVA Preservation Virginia
An annual journal of history, with articles on important personages
and events, archaeological discoveries, and analyses of the social,
political, economic, and architectural history of the region. Includes
primary documents such as letters, speeches, journals, and first-person
accounts.
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From Massacre to Matriarch: Six Weeks in the Life of Fani Scott, by Clara Talton
Fugate, drawings by Caren Ertmann Gallimore, translation to Spanish by Gilda Socarrás-Roufagalas
The true story of a woman’s escape from Indian capture and her trek home
through the Southern Appalachian wilderness, still reeling from the
shock of the massacre of her husband and four children. A “balanced
portrayal of the heartache endured by both the pioneers and the
Indians...” Published in both English and Spanish in a single book. |
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Strings of Life –
Conversations with Old-Time Musicians from Virginia
and North Carolina, by Kevin Donleavy
The history of fiddle and banjo music in southwestern Virginia and
Northern North Carolina, as told by the musicians responsible for the
music. Strings of Life represents more than fifteen years of research
and visits with old-time musicians and their families.
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Appalachian Coal Mining Memories:
Life in the Coal Fields of Virginia's
New River Valley,
edited by Mary B. La Lone, Radford University
Students from La Lone's Economic Anthropology honors class, in
collaboration with the Coal Mining Heritage Association of Montgomery
County, compiled the oral histories of more than fifty mine workers and
their families, documenting how people in southwestern Virginia managed
their lives during the middle years of the 20th century.
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The Diaries of James Armistead Otey, edited by James Otey Hoge, Jr.
Step into historical Blacksburg, Virginia, with James Armistead Otey
as your tour guide. Let him show you what it was like to own and operate
a farm in the late 19th century
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Quarter-Acre of Heartache, by Claude Clayton Smith
The true story of the oldest and smallest Indian reservation in the
country, told in the words of Chief Big Eagle of the Golden Hill tribe,
Paugussett Nation (Connecticut) |
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