Sentences with phrase «small town histories»

Stuff like small town histories, minority religious literature and non-commercial niche fiction fits well.

Not exact matches

It's not a pretty picture, and regardless what the authors» think of small businesses, they are crucial to thousands of smaller towns across America, and critical to our overall entrepreneurial vibrancy that has created the greatest economy in history.

Though it may be small, Saint - Chinian has everything you need for daily life — local produce shops, restaurants, bars, doctor's office, dentist, pharmacy, a health shop, wine cellars — yet it is still a small, charming little town, barely more than a village, typical of the region and packed with history and lots to see and do.

While Amman is the larget of those remaining, according to a segment I watched on the history channel, the Philadelphia mentioned in the bible refers to a small town located in modern day Turkey known as Alasehir.

But I chose this volume that chronicles McLean's visits to 10 small towns across Canada because it's a bit more complex and narrative than his usual down - home stuff, he dives into forgotten history, talks to people that aren't usually on the front page or the television, to tell their stories.

Yet one must have some standpoint from which to measure a falling off or erosion, and Protestant - Republican small - town America has to serve if one does not wish to reach outside of history to mythic golden ages or future utopias.

The more adept we are at social, history and the more the historians get close up to small - town America, the more they find an anarchic and chaotic reality.

However, small and at first sight unprepossessing as it was, the town had a history of hundreds of years and something to bring the visitors to it.

If Wenger allows Burnley to finish above Arsenal it will go down as the single biggest mis - management of this club in our history bar none.Burnley are a small town club with limited expectations but it shows what Good Management with Tatical Nous can do.Not a single Burnley player would get anywhere near our SQUAD let alone team and yet we are looking over our shoulder as they continue to over perform.And exactly WHO is the so called novice manager?

If we accept the mediocrity we are currently wallowing in, we will end up as a Huddersfield Town, a Wolverhampton Wanderers or an Ipswich Town - small provincial clubs who have had great days in their history, but never look like making it back to the summit of the English game.

Society was changing as well: the census of 1920 found more Americans living in cities than in small towns for the first time in our history, drawn there by war - industry jobs or driven by postwar restlessness.

The gunman who killed 26 people at a small - town Texas church had a history of domestic violence that spanned years before the attack, and was able buy weapons because the Air Force did not submit his criminal history to the FBI as required by military rules.

Republican Town Council nominee Bill Schirmer, a small business owner with a long history of community service, will provide incumbent Supervisor Kelly Myers and Deputy Supervisor Jimmy Bruno with the support they need to reform our town government and eliminate the $ 400,000 General Fund deficit accrued by the Democratic - backed majorTown Council nominee Bill Schirmer, a small business owner with a long history of community service, will provide incumbent Supervisor Kelly Myers and Deputy Supervisor Jimmy Bruno with the support they need to reform our town government and eliminate the $ 400,000 General Fund deficit accrued by the Democratic - backed majortown government and eliminate the $ 400,000 General Fund deficit accrued by the Democratic - backed majority.

The controversial water contaminant was made famous by Erin Brockovich and a small Mojave Desert town that won the largest tort injury settlement in U.S. history.

IN A TENT in one of the many primitive camps in Monguno, a formerly small town now bursting with tens of thousands of people who have fled Boko Haram, a mother sits with her baby on her lap while a health worker scribbles a brief case history.

Muller mellowed out after the family moved to St. Martin, a small town in southern France, where his father, who had taught high school French literature and history in Germany, enjoyed retirement and his mother co-owned and ran a small private camp site.

In doing so, they set their firms on course to become two of the largest chemical manufacturers in the world — and eventual partners in a sprawling manufacturing operation in a small New Jersey town that had its own history of piracy: Toms River.

Early history and career: Michael Merzenich was born in 1942 in the town of Lebanon in the US state of Oregon, the son of a factory foreman and supervisor and a German - American mother in this small agricultural and lumbering community.

Julian has plenty of interesting date spots where you can learn more about the small town's long history.

This small fishing town in Torbay is the site for the Golden Hind... The town has a rich history and culture, dating as far back as the Saxon times.

Texas Travel Directory, over 3200 Texas cities, towns, small towns and ghost towns: history, attractions, landmarks, vintage and contemporary photos Consider this an ode to knowing your neighbors, the local baristas knowing your coffee order, and seeing everyone gather at high school games on weekends.

It feels like a small town with a lot of history, and to watch Downey Jr.'s character continuously run into it around every corner is amusing and reminiscent.

The rest of the four - hour miniseries, an extended, episodic history of life in Olive's small town, unspools with the specter of her suicide omnipresent on its margins; each untimely demise is also a flickering reminder that our heroine is planning to kill herself.

His latest is Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a voracious sexual predator who lives in the dark cocoon of his stretch limo as it inches its way across Midtown to a barbershop that would be more at home in the bucolic small town of A History of Violence than in the metal canyons of Manhattan.

Gist: Set in a small West Virginia mining town in the foothills of Appalachia, the book tells the story of small - time drug dealer Cole Freeman (Trotter), who is driven to action and redemption in response to a set of unexpected circumstances that threaten to tear apart the close - knit fabric of family, friendship, land and history that binds everyone, and everything, he loves.

The local judge (Graf, The Brady Bunch Movie) in the small town is so fed up with seeing her face, and the fact that she has had four children already (all of which had to be given up for adoption due to their mother's behavior), that when he discovers she is pregnant again decides to make law history and have her put in prison for endangering the life of her fetus, making it clear he would be a bit more lenient with her if she were to have it aborted.

In McDonagh's simmering crockpot of small - town personalities, resentment commingles with a shared history and understanding — sometimes within a single scene, like the startling gear - shift moment where a tense confrontation between the chief and Mildred disarms itself when he suddenly coughs up blood.

AMERICAN RUST Not moving forward after being ordered straight to series STUDIO: Universal Cable Productions / Platform One Media TEAM: Brian McGreevy (w, ep), Lee Shipman (w, ep), Philipp Meyer (w, ep), Micharl De Luca (ep), David Gordon Green (d, ep), Quan Phung (ep), Elisa Ellis (ep), Courtney Conte (ep), Elishia Holmes (co-ep) LOGLINE: Set in a small Pennsylvania rust belt town, it follows the rise and fall of a crime - riddled community as seen through the eyes of a sheriff with a history of violence.

BEST REALITY SERIES (tie) Duck Dynasty — A&E The Moment — USA Pawn Stars — History Channel Push Girls — Sundance Small Town Security — AMC Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan — BBC America

Dominic Cooke, who directs and who is at the helm of a miniseries of Shakespeare histories, projects the genteel nature of life in a small English town, where Edward may be considered more of a hayseed than is the love of his life despite his scholarly affinity for history.

About a small town that goes to hell when someone starts publicly posting private social - media exchanges and search histories, Assassination Nation looks like an arch, bloody high - school horror - comedy that, sure, could be a Heathers for our age.

Lots of librarian favorites and buzz titles to look out for next week, starting with Francine Matthews «s alternate history featuring JFK, and Dianne Warren «s prize - winning tale of small town lives.

- The Telegraph (UK) «Mixes the small - town surrealism of Twin Peaks with the clandestine - society theme of Donna Tartt's The Secret History.»

Groff intended to write a book about a town she cherishes, showcasing its rich history alongside its present - day menagerie of baseball fame and small town life.

Will Moredock, author of Banana Republic: A Year in the Heart of Myrtle Beach, a history of Myrtle Beach and an analysis of the corrupting influence of 14 million tourists and $ 5 billion a year on this small, conservative southern town.

Having grown up practically side by side in this very small town, Jody and Collin have had a long history of carefully avoiding each other's eyes.

Personal secrets drive the plot and reveal the history in this powerful novel about two young women who get off a boat in a small southern Illinois town at the start of the Civil War.

On a bleak, harsh winter afternoon in Chosen, a small town in upstate New York, local art history professor George...

The town in which she grew up, Apollo, Pennsylvania, was a small, nondescript sort of place, not much different from countless other mill towns carved out of hemlock and spruce, unassuming enough that even the author of a history of Apollo felt obliged to explain in the book's foreword, «It is not necessary to be a city of the first class to fill the niche in the hearts of the people or the history of the state.

Await Your Reply follows the journey — geographic, and interior — of a girl named Lucy Lattimore, on the run from her small Ohio town with her former history teacher.

The Red Garden (Crown) sounds like classic Hoffman — small town, 300 years of history and secrets, a hint of magic (in this case, a garden where only red plants can grow).

In the small town of Sayville, Long Island, many knew of the family's dark history.

Will Moredock is author of Banana Republic: A Year in the Heart of Myrtle Beach, a history of Myrtle Beach and an analysis of the corrupting influence of 14 million tourists and $ 5 billion a year on this small, conservative southern town.

Connecticut is a New England state and one of the smallest in the U.S.. It's known for its history, small coastal towns, museums and landmarks.

Nestled in the heart of Rockingham County, this small rural town still packs a big punch in terms of its rich history and unique attractions.

On the other hand, the western half of the state offers natural beauty, a different side of history, and all the charm of small towns that retain easy access to large cities.

From the capital's small - town history to a booming tech city and all the phases in between, Austin Motel has stood privy to it all.

Learn more about small - town life in New England in the early nineteenth century by visiting the oldest community - based museum in the country, the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, and enjoy your complimentary copy of «A Walking History of Middlebury.»

A charming collection of shops, museums, galleries and restaurants showcases Courtenay's unique blend of small - town charm, urban services, diverse culture and rich history.

Pilgrims Rest, a small town steeped in gold mining history, is rather unique in that the whole town is a museum.