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For 65 years, travelers in West Virginia have enjoyed the inscriptions of hundreds of historical markers along the highways and byways. Now, the information from all of these markers is available in one handy volume. Complete inscriptions arranged by county, more than 100 photographs, and a brief history of the program make this book the most complete collection to date of these popular reminders of West Virginia's rich past. Proceeds benefit the West Virginia State Historical Highway Marker Program.
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Alejandro Roque
reviewed Marking Our Past: West Virginia's Historical Highway Markers on November 17, 2020
Marking Our Past
I adore Welsh author Jan Morris's travel writing and this book about Manhattan in its prime (immediately post-WWII) is Morris at her best. Pages are filled with sensual descriptions of busy people in a thrilling city, as well as Morris's keen understanding of the American mindset at mid-century. Victory was ours, times were good, and NYC was the place be.
I also like the way the book is organized, with beautifully researched chapters on pleasure (art, jazz, and other popular recreation), purpose (what industries were booming at the time), the city's history, architecture, and more. It seems like there are three or four interesting anecdotes per page. Did you know O.H. Ammann, the Swiss-born designer of the George Washington and Verrazano bridges (among others), spent his final years in a penthouse apartment in the Carlyle Hotel looking through a telescope at his creations?
Great book.
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