James Koehnline
Autor/a de Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture
Obres de James Koehnline
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- male
Membres
Ressenyes
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 2
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 113
- Popularitat
- #173,161
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 3
The book is a collection of essays along with a few poems and illustrations. The events discussed encompass quite a range, from the first European colonists up to the Alcatraz occupation of 1970.
I live in the Catskills so I was fascinated to hear about the Ramapo mountains that are not far from here. Maybe I will ride my bike down there to explore! But driving up on I-287 from Philadelphia a week ago or so, that sign for Ringwood really meant something for me, which it never had in the past. Yeah those mountains aren't so high but they sure are steep! Could be some tough biking!
Then to learn about the Metis people. Growing up I was always told about one ancestral line of our family being French-Canadian. Oh yeah, Metis! My mother's mother's mother was Marie Petit, near as I can tell. A fine Metis name!
Yeah this book just opened up my mind to so many dimensions! What do I do with all this?!… (més)