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  Selected Letters , 1940-1956

  Author: Kerouac, Jack

  Date: 1995-00-00

  Publication: Viking Penguin

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 30593133

  Collection of selected correspondence between writer Jack Kerouac and family, friends, and other literary figures before 1956. Includes letters to and from William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg; to Kerouac's mother, Gabrielle Kerouac; Neal Cassady; Alfred Kazin; and many others. Contain references to early writings, travels, relationships, etc. Letters presented chronologically, annotated, and linked with editor commentary. Includes biographical chronology and editor introduction.

  Tags California, Denver CO, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Other, Lowell MA, Mexico, Montana, New York NY, Newport RI, North Carolina, Ozone Park (N.Y.), Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Richmond Hill (N.Y.), San Francisco CA, Travel and Movement
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  Bird Cloud : A Memoir

  Author: Proulx, Annie

  Date: 2011

  Publication: Scribner

  Language : en

  Source : Preview

  Find in a library: 555641609

  Narrative of the discovery and inhabiting of the author's homestead along Wyoming's North Platte River. Memoirs from the author's youth and family life, relatives, their cultures and their mobility. Her youth across New England. Historical, archaeological, and genealogical portraits of her family, her various regions, and their people woven throughout. Vivid descriptions of natural life in the rural United States that add to several chapters on the processes of architecting, building, and getting acquainted with her Wyoming home - Bird Cloud - and its own histories. From the author of "The Shipping News," "Accordion Crimes," and several other notable works of fiction.

  Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Art and Architecture, Connecticut, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Genealogy, Geography, Maine, Montréal QC, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Rhode Island, Saratoga WY, Travel and Movement, Vermont, Willimantic CT, Wyoming
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  Seamless Hosiery Industry of Laconia, New Hampshire

  Author: Carls, J. Norman

  Date: 1937-04-00

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 1567395

  Article describing the state of hosiery mills in Laconia, New Hampshire in the late 1930s: obstacles to effective production, descriptions of economic advantages, suggestions for improvement. Historical background from the origins of the first Laconia hosiery in 1847. Mill closures beginning in 1923: their causes and some of their impacts. Current 1930s industrial competition between Laconia mills and similar producers in Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee. Includes black and white photographs.

  Tags Belmont NH, Binghamton NY, Blackstone River Valley, Franklin NH, Georgia, Hillsboro NH, Laconia NH, Lake Winnipesaukee NH, Merrimack River Valley, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Tilton NH