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Exquisite Wickedness
9781634993036
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%"The Tell-Tale Heart," one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories, has inspired artists, filmmakers, and writers since its first publication in 1843. But it was two murders a decade apart that helped inspire Poe to write his macabre masterwork of psychological fiction.
In Salem, Massachusetts, in April 1830, the ruthless murder of an old and wealthy sea captain rattled the city's rich, sullied Salem's reputation, and helped launch America's obsession with true crime.
A decade later, in December 1840, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a wealthy banker mysteriously disappeared. The discovery of his mangled corpse and the demeanor of his alleged killer made for great headlines in New York's new Penny Press and planted the seeds for Poe's masterpiece.
Poe's life during the period of these murders went from idealistic poet to soldier to struggling writer, set adrift by family rifts and his stubborn nature.
Exquisite Wickedness examines these two crimes, Poe's life during this period, the circumstances of the writing of his famous story, and an unbelievable betrayal whose effects have lasted far beyond the grave.
Airport Airside at BWI
9781634994897
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9781634993456
Regular price $28.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Abandoned Baltimore
9781634991902
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%122 Years on the Old Bay Line
9781634993999
Regular price $25.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Abandoned Maryland Houses
9781634994361
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Historic mansions, farmhouses, and family homes rot across Maryland, the wealthiest state in the nation, from the Eastern Shore to the west in Appalachia. As the authors explored these homes, they researched the reasons the families lost their properties, so they could tell their stories.
They discovered families often leave due to financial distress and environmental disasters. In other cases, developers purchase property with decayed historic homes and then allow them to rot until they can get them condemned through a process called demolition by neglect. Complex laws, or lack of legislation, leave local municipalities in a bind as properties deteriorate and unpaid property taxes accumulate.
For the authors, these homes represent lost memories, lost hopes. Buying a home has always symbolized a means to accumulate wealth and rise to the middle class. Losing a home means losing access to the American dream. Walk with the authors as they have discovered, in weather-worn halls, 200-year-old architectural gems, faded photographs of ancestors, vintage trinkets, and antiques of yesteryear. Each item signifies a stop on a family's ancestral road map.
Abandoned Maryland
9781634991070
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Lost Civil War Diary of Captain John Rigdon King
9781634990707
Regular price $28.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Abandoned Maryland
9781634990653
Regular price $25.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Abandoned Maryland
9781634993272
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The eastern shore of Maryland, an area of flat lands, is filled with vast amounts of farmland and chicken houses. Among all these you will find many abandoned properties, many with historical significance to the beginnings of the eastern shore. If you were to spend much time here, these abandoned structures become easily overlooked, as it is a common sight and eventually blurs into the background. In many cases, it is hard to tell if a building is abandoned or still occupied.
Properties which families once lived and worked are now torn down and gone forever. Once busy villages now sit quiet and undisturbed except by nature. Maryland based photographer, Carol Bardzell, captures these places in the hope she can bring to light the beauty in what is usually ignored or overlooked.
With over 100 photographs, local history, and personal narrative, Abandoned Maryland: Eastern Shore gives readers a visual journey into the explorations of these abandoned properties.
Baltimore Streetcar Memories
9781634990349
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9781634991469
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