Hidden in plain sight: a deep traveler explores Connecticut
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1. Verfasser: Leff, David K. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Middletown, CT Wesleyan University Press [2012]
Schriftenreihe:Garnet books
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue to Deep Travel: The Merritt Parkway; Along the Roadside; Counting Miles in Four Centuries: Old Milestones; What's in a Name?: Reading Street Signs; Seeing through Time: Roadcuts; Painted Ledges: Roadside Rock Art; Last Picture Shows: Drive-In Theaters; A Cool Drink of Water: Roadside Springs; A Great Good Place: Diners; Places We Build; A Most Enduring Harvest: Quarries; The People's Castles: Stone Lookouts; King of Homes: Yankee Castles; A Thousand Uses: Quonset Huts; The Shape of Futures Past: Octagon Houses
Practical, Adaptable, and Disappearing: BarnsThe Spirit of Community: Camp Meetings; Exploring Gasoline Alley: Racetracks; Seeing Green: Trees, Culture, and Agriculture; A Place for Common Ground: Town Greens; Heart of Nowhere: Connecticut's Most Remote Place; The Measure of a State: Connecticut's Highest Point(s); Big Trees: Old-Growth Forests; A Sacred Grove: Hope for the Chestnut Forest; The Perfect Street Tree: A Few Good Elms; Inventing New England Autumn: Leaf Peeping; A Most Useful Tree: Season of the Witch Hazel; Tasting the Landscape: Cider Mills
A Community Harvest: Agricultural FairsGhost Towns and Graveyards; Forgotten but Not Gone: Ghost Towns; Ghost Streets and Routes Less Taken: Abandoned Roads; Beneath the Lakes: Lost Worlds; Watery Ghosts of Manufacturing: Mill Ponds; Steeped in Mystery: Gungywamp; Space-Age Ghosts: Nike Missile Sites; Perpetual Care Isn't Forever: Neglected Graveyards; Haunting Stones of Metal: Zinc Grave Markers; Trash Talk: Landfills and Landscape; Through Artists' Eyes; Reinventing the Colonial Landscape: Wallace Nutting; A Fresh Way of Looking: The Hudson River School
In a State of Plein Air: Artists OutdoorsWhere the Landscape Is Art: Weir Farm; Poetic Space: James Merrill's Apartment; Landscape and the Written Word: Nature Writers; Buy the Book: Used Bookstores; Epilogue to Further Discovery: The New England Trail; Just the Right Place: An Explorer's Guide; Connecticut's Hidden Places: Map Key
The art of discovering cultural and natural treasures in everyday landscapes
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (249 p.)
ISBN:0819572810
0819572829
9780819572813
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