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Genre/Form: | Electronic book Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Maynard, W. Barksdale, (William Barksdale). Brandywine : an intimate portrait. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2015 viii, 253 pages |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
W Barksdale Maynard |
ISBN: | 9780812290738 0812290739 0812246772 9780812246773 |
OCLC Number: | 891846666 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
Contents: | Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: American Arcadia; The Brandywine Paradox; That Lyrical Name; Daydreams of Englishness; Beauty Changed into Currency; Chapter 1: Fish Creek in New Sweden; De Vries at the Rocks; The Dominion of Fort Christina; Chapter 2: Pride of Penn's Woods; Brave Brick Houses; Glazed Headers, Pent Eaves; At Old Swedes Church; A New Town Rises; Two Stargazers; Chapter 3: A River Red with Blood; Bayonets Bright as Silver; A Most Infernal Fire; Almost Cut to Pieces; Long Live Lafayette!; Turning up Bones; A Tour of Battle Hill; On Holy Ground. Chapter 4: "Rushing Water and Buzzing Wheels"The Genius of Oliver Evans; A Fine Range of Mills; Arts and Sciences; Watermarks; Truly Romantic Spot; Picnics and Promenades; Paper Mills at Rockland; Chapter 5: Thunderous Age of Black Powder; Powder-Making at Eleutherian Mills; The Seat of Industry and Beauty; Powder Yard, Garden, and Deer Park; The Dashing of the Torrent; Westward Ho!; Chapter 6: Industry and War; The Sage of Cedarcroft; And the War Came; Valley in War time; Money No Object; Chapter 7: River of Nature; Quaker Horticulturists; Mergansers on the Milldam; Blue Rocks; Green Rocks. Riparian PhenomenaCamping Out; The Orchards; The Mills Go Silent; Pollution and Preservation; With the Coming of Sprawl; Chapter 8: Literary Pastoral; River of America; A Vision of Pastoral Loveliness; Horrible, Shrieking, Bloody Plots; Awful Grandeur; This Historic Ground; Old Days and Old Ways; Eccentric Earl of Ellerslie; Chapter 9: "Painters of True American Art"; En Plein Air; With Camera and Brush; Young Artists at Turner's Mill; Genius of The Homestead; All Stirred Up About the Landscape; From Chris to Andrew; Catching the Heart of America; Brief Encounter. Appendix: Bridges of the BrandywineNotes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits. |
Responsibility: | W. Barksdale Maynard. |
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A refreshing take on Delaware's most famous river-much like the waters that flow through it. With this groundbreaking book, Maynard has made a valuable contribution to telling our history. * Jack A. Markell, Governor of Delaware * The Brandywine: An Intimate Portrait helps illuminate the richness and variety of our country's past-an enjoyable and revealing read about this Pennsylvania-Delaware region that is home to a unique blend of colonial, Revolutionary, agrarian, and industrial aspects of American culture and history. * Ken Salazar, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and U.S. Senator * The Brandywine flows through-and is witness to-American history like no other river. Guided by Maynard's insightful writing and illustrations, I made a fascinating journey to meet up with Washington and Lafayette, the du Ponts, the Wyeth family and their times in this famous valley. * Bruce Babbitt, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona * Read more...


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