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Born and brought up in Crisfield on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Helen Avalynne Tawes (1898–1989) gained her knowledge of Maryland cookery as most Maryland girls did in those times: at her mother’s elbow. As the wife of Maryland Governor J. Millard Tawes, she spent many hours experimenting in her kitchen, perfecting the…
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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: historiska berättelser
Travel back in time to the early twentieth century as the magical Sand Lady takes a young girl on vacation to Ocean City, Maryland, as she remembers it. See the Atlantic and Plimhimmon hotels, have ice cream at the Sugar Bowl, tea at Conner’s restaurant, and a carousel ride at Trimper’s Luna Park. It is a…
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Take a photographic journey across Maryland. From its beaches on the Atlantic coastline and the Chesapeake Bay to the fall colors of the mountains of western Maryland, 48 images provide a beautiful overview and an appreciation of the many interesting facets of this geographic region. In the early 1970s, this peninsula…
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Discover and enjoy the flowers, shrubs, and trees of America’s northern coastal region. Stroll through Portland, Boston Common, New York City, Philadelphia, and the Baltimore Harbor, and delight in getting to know the natural beauty that makes your excursion a gardener’s paradise. In this informative guide, over…
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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: historiska berättelser
While a Tree Grew takes young readers on a journey through time with Maryland’s most famous tree, the great Wye Oak, by tracing the tree’s history from when it was a seedling to its fall during a storm in 2002. While a Tree Grew gives a new generation a glimpse into this venerable Maryland icon and the 460 years of…
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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: historiska berättelser
Leonard Calvert was a quiet boy who grew up in England. When he was grown, Leonard went to Newfoundland with his father, George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, and fought French privateers. When his father died, Cecil became the second Lord Baltimore, and led the first colonists to settle in Maryland. Leonard was…
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While a Tree Grew takes young readers on a journey through time with Maryland’s most famous tree, the great Wye Oak, by tracing the tree’s history from when it was a seedling to its fall during a storm in 2002. While a Tree Grew gives a new generation a glimpse into this venerable Maryland icon and the 460…
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Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
This fourth book in a series about Maryland’s counties includes Somerset, Dorchester, Worcester, and Wicomico Counties on the Eastern Shore. Written for children in elementary school, the book acquaints readers with the basic facts about the area’s history, geography, climate, plants, animals, education, religion, and…
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There is something peaceful and serene about the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Away from I-95’s busy metropolitan corridor, the region’s tranquil and picturesque towns reveal glimpses of history dating back to colonial days in their architecture and festivals and fairs. First occupied by Native Americans and…
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Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
In the years between 1668 and 1751, the government of Maryland envisioned an urban development program unrivaled in scope by any other colony except Virginia. Unwilling to allow development to occur naturally, both the Lord Proprietor and the legislature tried to create towns, ignoring the social, economic, and…
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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: historiska berättelser
This second book in the Our Maryland Counties series for elementary school students covers Baltimore, Frederick, Harford, and Carroll counties.
The book includes a description of the region’s geography, climate, plants and animals, and history. The uniqueness of each county is celebrated with absorbing stories about…
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This readable survey of folklore and folklife in Maryland is a fascinating guide to the kind of traditions that exist right under peoples’ noses–if they take the time to look. Tall tales, legends, folk heroes, and local characters all fall within the purview of george Carey, who studied local folk culture…
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Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution tells the story of Marylanders who could not engage in the passionate rebellion that was breaking out all around them. Although most were nearly as disillusioned with England as their rebel counterparts, the loyalists held their ground and refused to join in an armed…
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Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
The book describes the region’s four central counties (Anne Arundel, Howard, Montgomery, and Prince George’s), including wildlife, plants, and history. It also details what is unique about each county, such as, government, growth, major towns, natural resources, and places of interest. Especially interesting to young…
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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: sport och friluftsaktiviteter Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Few people know that seven native-born Marylanders have earned a place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. This collective biography chronicles the lives and careers of the state’s baseball elite in words and period photographs. These Maryland players represent baseball’s greatest players, beginning with Baltimore’s…
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You love the beach. You always have. You share that with millions who went before you. Youll pass it on to those that come after.\nThrough an image scrapbook of over 480 vintage postcards from the early 1900s into the 1960s, join the masses who first sought recreation and retreat along the coastal waters of Delaware…
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Explore haunted places of Montgomery County, Maryland, and its surrounding area through 53 ghostly stories: Brookeville to Gaithersburg, Poolesville, and Leesburg, Virginia; the C & O Canal to Rockville and Silver Spring; Chevy Chase and Washington, D.C. to Sandy Spring. Learn about the many ghosts, apparitions,…
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Learn about eighteen of Maryland’s most influential and courageous women, past and present. Ideal for the classroom, this educational book offers brief biographies and commentary on poet Lucille Clifton; politicians Helen Delich Bentley, Barbara Mikulski, and Verda Welcome; photojournalist Sadie Kneller Miller; fashion…
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Veteran Washington Post reporter and award-winning writer Eugene L. Meyer directs a tour across the “Free State†that is part love letter, part oral history, part obituary. He explores what makes Maryland special, the people who make it unique, and the places and livelihoods that have vanished over the years. The…
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Explore the supernatural history of Maryland through ghost stories and legends, and discover why the state may be one of the most haunted in America. Learn how a woman, killed by an oil lamp, locked the parlor doors of her house from her coffin. Play cards with the devil in a home where a ghost led a player to a hidden…
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Visit the Ocean City, Maryland, that your grandparents visited. Historic photographs preserve images from the 1900s when bonneted women wore full-length dresses on the boardwalk. Then travel to the 1970s, when the crowds stopped at 38th Street. Aerial views help trace the island’s development from a remote…
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Maryland is “alive” with the dead—ghosts, haunted houses, and things that go bump in the day, as well as the night. This is a collection of twenty-five of the state’s most fascinating accounts of the supernatural from the flatlands of the Eastern Shore to the mountains of western Maryland. You’ll read ghost tales that…
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