Maryland's Vanishing LivesJHU Press, 1995 - Всего страниц: 232 For more than two years, John Sherwood roamed Maryland's small towns and city neighborhoods, traveled Appalachian back roads, and sailed the Chesapeake looking for people whose work or way of life recalled the state's rich and varied tradition. Maryland's Vanishing Lives is his vivid account of the people he met on those journeys. Working in a country store or an old-time movie house, on a small tobacco farm or a weathered skipjack, Sherwood's subjects interest us as people, as stubborn survivors who have watched—sometimes defiantly, sometimes wistfully—as the world moved on. These Marylanders' stories poignantly show what happens to family businesses and ordinary folk in the face of new technology, suburban sprawl, franchise outlets, and changing tastes. But Maryland's Vanishing Lives is also an engaging celebration of pride and craft, and the ability to survive. In this collection of sixty-six short profiles, illustrated with memorable photographs by Edwin Remsberg, Sherwood preserves for posterity the lives of Marylanders who hang on to values and skills that are quickly disappearing. |
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Sadowski Tugboat Towing Company Fells Point | 3 |
This IS a Printing OfficeJ H Furst Company Baltimore | 9 |
Vera Empress of the White Sands Lusby | 17 |
Carlton Rhoderick Linotype Man Middletown | 23 |
Bills Place Little Orleans | 31 |
Baltimores Last Cannery Canton | 37 |
Hull Street Federal Marylands Smallest Bank South Baltimore | 43 |
John Smiths Barbershop Lonaconing | 51 |
The Elliott Island MotherofPearl Button Factory | 115 |
The Last of the HomeDelivery Milkmen Crofton | 121 |
Beaten Biscuits the Maryland Way Rock Hall | 127 |
Cramers FiveandTen North East | 133 |
The Oyster Packing House Mt Vernon | 141 |
The Disappearing Skipjack Tilghman and Deal Islands | 147 |
The Curtis Brothers Sail Loft Oxford | 153 |
The Original Historic Little Wedding Chapel Elkton | 159 |
Hurlock Hardware | 57 |
Baltimores Last Tobacconist | 63 |
King of the Strolling Accordionists Silver Spring | 69 |
The Lower Whitehaven Ferry | 75 |
The Sawmill of Robert Linkins Rison | 83 |
Aado Vaigro Formstone Man Baltimore | 89 |
Buckels General Store Bittinger | 95 |
A Personal Museum of Ephemera Hudsons Corner | 101 |
The Coal Man Cometh in Baltimore | 109 |
Eylers Valley Chapel Emmitsburg | 165 |
Oak Splint Basket Makers since 1876 North East | 171 |
Last of the Cooperages Cambridge | 179 |
Croppers Small Mall Shelltown | 185 |
Old Towns Old Stove Shop Baltimore | 191 |
Tom Courtney PoundNet Fisherman Point Lookout | 199 |
Silversmithing in Baltimore | 205 |
The Broom Factory Baltimore | 213 |