Postcards from Nebraska
Author | : Roger Welsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-10 |
Genre | : Nebraska |
ISBN | : 9780934904407 |
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Author | : Roger Welsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-10 |
Genre | : Nebraska |
ISBN | : 9780934904407 |
Author | : Oliver B. Pollak |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467128651 |
Millions of people traveling America's railroads and highways pass through Omaha, breaking for an overnight stay. At the end of the day, the traveler's experience is in the hands of transportation workers, hoteliers, and restaurateurs who promise comfort, food, and safety. Omaha's hospitality industry offerings ranged from the modest Scandinavian Young Women's Christian Association and the Hotel Harley bachelor lodgings to the lofty Fontenelle and Blackstone Hotels. The resilient Paxton has been a fixture since 1882. Visitors to Omaha took in the bright lights and culture, documenting their impressions on postcards that picture the city's hotels, restaurants, train depots, bridges, and weather events.
Author | : Roger Welsch |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1999-05-01 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780803298088 |
Roger Welsch did what many Americans only dream of doing. While still in his professional prime, the folklorist and humorist quit a tenured professorship and headed toward the hinterland. Resettled in the open heart of Nebraska with his wife, Welsch proceeded to learn how to live. It?s Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here is, in his own words, "a celebration" of his "rural education." ø These twenty-eight tales of the Great Plains convey in familiar Welschian style "the importance, charm, beauty, and value of the typical." They describe the wisdom that Welsch?s new-found teachers share with him. From everyday country people, he learns the fine arts of relaxing, using his noggin, trusting his instincts, and laughing a lot more, while Omaha Indian friends teach him the most profound lessons of all.
Author | : Roger Welsch |
Publisher | : Fawcett |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1991-04-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780449220108 |
Author | : Burnice Beal Fiedler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Omaha (Neb.) |
ISBN | : 9780967499550 |
Love architecture and old prints? Then this book is for you. Greetings from Omaha features reproductions of 400 Omaha postcards from local collector, Burnice Fiedler showing the places that shaped Omaha for 100 years. Retail: $39.95 Special Price $19.95.
Author | : Carrie Fisher |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2011-11-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1849833656 |
** THE NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING CULT CLASSIC NOVEL ** ** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry ** ‘I don’t think you can even call this a drug. This is just a response to the conditions we live in.’ Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll cope – and find work – back on the outside, she meets new patient Alex. Ambitious, good-looking in a Heathcliffish way and in the grip of a monumental addiction, he makes Suzanne realize that, however eccentric her life might seem, there’s always someone who’s even closer to the edge of reason. Carrie Fisher’s bestselling debut novel is an uproarious commentary on Hollywood – the home of success, sex and insecurity – and has become a beloved cult classic. ‘This novel, with its energy, bounce and generous delivery of a loud laugh on almost every page, stands as a declaration of war on two fronts: on normal and on unhappy’ STEPHEN FRY ‘A single woman’s answer to Nora Ephron’s Heartburn . . . the smart successor to Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays’ Los Angeles Times ‘A cult classic . . . A wonderfully funny, brash and biting novel’ Washington Post 'A wickedly shrewd black-humor riff on the horrors of rehab and the hollows of Hollywood life' People 'Searingly funny' Vogue
Author | : Foster Care Alumni of America |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2011-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780983937005 |
When you open Postcards From The Soul, you'll see into the depths of the often-hidden emotions of people who have shared extraordinary experiences. This collection of postcards is both moving and illuminating. The emotions are raw and genuine. Every postcard tells a piece of the life story of a real person. Maybe even somebody you know. These postcards resonate because they reflect a universal condition: Living in the face of adversity. They speak to all people wanting to have a sense of belonging and to be loved, heard, safe, and respected. They often reflect loss, abuse, abandonment, hurt, and the mental health and addiction struggles of the postcard author or of someone close to them. By sharing their inner-most thoughts, the creators of these postcards hope that you will have a better understanding of some of the struggles they endured, and that through their sharing you will want to make a difference for someone else who may be facing adversity in their lives.
Author | : Roger Welsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9781616738013 |
Author | : Annie Graeme Larkin |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738599964 |
Visually, the Bisbee of today remains a community frozen in time, with Main Street retaining its character from 1910. The discovery of copper deposits in the Mule Mountains brought forth a wealth that enabled a substantial community. Profitable mining ventures and a need for labor drew thousands of miners from around the world to work in Bisbee. These individuals added a distinct flavor to the area. Like countless other Western mining camps, Bisbee evolved from a rough frontier community surviving disastrous fires and floods into a town with a substantial population and solid foundation. Bisbee's seemingly inexhaustible mineral wealth resulted in the community becoming a center of economic and political power in an emerging territory on its way to statehood. It was Arizona's greatest copper camp.
Author | : Ron Hansen |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802194168 |
Stories of the heartland by the National Book Award finalist and author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. “Nebraska captures a rowdy, changing America. Written with wit and brawny lyricism, in voices ranging from hip to tender, the stories gathered here are as diverse and expansive as the country they celebrate…References to America’s heartland abound throughout the book and serve as a central metaphor for what’s close to American hearts, what connects us: dreams, myths and possibilities as vast as the Great Plains. Wise and smart-alecky, creaking with legend and crackling with modernisms, these tales are about American obsessions past and present.” –The Washington Post Book World “Just as Raymond Carver came to be identified with a Pacific Northwest populated by blue-collar workers, and just as Richard Ford has crafted a Montana full of drifters, so Ron Hansen has carved out his own geographical niche. His Nebraska is a distinctive mix of 19th century settlers and 1980s breadwinners, of sudden storms and life-long yearnings, of lost souls stranded in the middle of nowhere.” –USA Today “Beautifully crafted stories… Wickedness, evil, malice is called by name; and for Hansen’s people the snake in the garden never fails to appear.” —The New York Times “Breathtaking virtuosity…These short narratives are utterly clean and smooth; they click together like a collection of river-washed stones that are each remarkably different yet polished by the same hand.”—Publishers Weekly