As Professor Don H.Doyle says on the book that: “This is the story of birth and development of a rural American community, from its origins at the turn of the nineteenth century to the years that followed the Civil War. It vividly portrays the sights and sounds of the prairie, the lives of the Indians and pioneers, the relations between farming men and women, and the ways the settlers adjusted to the advent of railroads and commercial agriculture.” Faragher divided Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie into five sections. The “Howling Wilderness” examines the dispossession of the Algonquian speaking Indians and settlement of Anglo-Americans on the frontier. “The Country of Plenty to Eat” focuses on the creation of a distinctive rural landscape in Illinois. Social relationships between men and women were discussed in “Lords of the Soil, Tenants of the Hearth” and the community life in the west and the transition to commercial agriculture were described in “All is Changed.” Faragher used the narrative of Robert Pulliam, who was born in Virginia and migrated to Illinois with his parents before settling on Sugar Creek.
Kaylee Hunter Death & Dying Project #1 September 18, 2013 St. Adalbert’s Cemetery Project This project was extremely interesting based on my career choice. I feel it was perfect timing to begin to gain a better understanding of what Funeral Service is all about. I chose to prepare my project at St. Adalbert’s Cemetery, which is located on the south side of Milwaukee. It was established in 1888, and was once known as Polish Union Cemetery. Many descendants of Polish ancestry are buried there including a few of my own relatives.
When the English colonist arrived to our wonderful country, American, they were greeted by our Native Americans. The Native Americans began to show the American colonist how to live off of the land and what the land had to offer. They taught how to grow crops, hunt, and build shelter all from the Earth. This lasted for many years until the American colonist decided to do things their own way. They looked at the natural resources as a privately owned commodity.
Chippawa's first Presbyterian congregation was not organized until 1831, although the Presbyterian missionary and founder of almost all Presbyterian churches in the Niagara Peninsula, the Reverend Daniel Ward Eastman, often preached here, as early as 1807. The 1831 congregation, being American oriented, was first suspended and later, due to the MacKenzie rebellion of 1837, was disbanded. In September, 1842, it was re-organized as a congregation of the United Secession church. A building fund was established. Mr. James Cummings, prominent landowner and merchant in the village, donated a half-acre of land for a church site.
North and South Carolina observe it on May 10, Louisiana on June 3 and Tennessee calls that date Confederate Decoration Day. Texas celebrates Confederate Heroes Day January 19 and Virginia calls the last Monday in May Confederate Memorial Day. Gen. Logan’s order for his posts to decorate graves in 1868 “with the choicest flowers of springtime” urged: “We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. ... Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided
Now it is properly maintained by a caretaker and an American flag flaps proudly in the breeze. This is the site of the Baby Graves, located in my hometown of Midwest, WY. The Baby Graves literally gets its name from the type of residents who inhabit this cemetery. Some date as far back as the 1800s, while a few others are as late as 1962. Many were the young infants and children of settlers and pioneers traveling through on their way to the Oregon Trail.
McQueen walked fields of land mines and wasn’t afraid to set them off with his walking stick. He usually managed to step away in time. A fond theme of McQueen was Victorian Gothic, a tale told in raven feathers, lace and binding corsetry. He drew upon the original mourning dress, which became trendy in England after Queen Victoria’s beloved husband King Albert died, and she wore only black for the rest of her life. Ironically, mourning dress became an elaborate ritual with layers of skirts and veils and jewelry made of human hair — all properly coordinated, of course.
Their social society was stratified farming towns. Neolithic time came and so did the Agrarian Civilizations. Religion brought the social structure of highly stratified warrior chiefdoms and absolute monarchies. This social structure was built of patrician, king, court, high officials, business, craft, and accouters. Hammurbi ruled this time because God called him to create a code of laws for the people to follow.
Taking inspiration from the unruly aspects of the natural world, Art Nouveau influenced art and architecture especially in the applied arts, graphic work, and illustration. Additionally, the new style was an outgrowth of two nineteenth-century English developments for which design reform (a reaction to prevailing art education, industrialized mass production, and the debasement of historic styles) was a leitmotif—the Arts and Crafts movement and the Aesthetic movement. The former emphasized a return to handcraftsmanship and traditional techniques. The latter promoted a similar credo of "art for art's sake" that provided the foundation for non-narrative paintings, for instance, Whistler's Nocturnes. It further drew upon elements of Japanese art ("japonisme"), which flooded Western markets, mainly in the form of prints, after trading rights were established with Japan in the 1860s.
People began to identify themselves through cultural factors such as language, music, and architecture, along with political factors such as government types and boundaries were starting to be identified on a national level. These nation states used the state as an instrument of national unity through architecture with not only construction but reconstruction. Architecture has always been used to express power but now the task of the architect was to design national environments and create national symbols. The foundation place of this was pursued in the rural countryside because it was only there that time stood still. Shortly after the discovery of the New World, Europeans began sailing across the Atlantic ocean, bringing across with them the acquired knowledge that has since been known to man at the time.