A. C. Theokas (Bücher)

A. C. Theokas Bücher

A.C. Theokas ist fasziniert von der Wissenschaftsgeschichte und fühlt sich zu den Geschichten von Freidenkern hingezogen, die sich über Konventionen hinwegsetzten. Er glaubt, dass historische Fiktion der eindringlichste Weg ist, um sich mit der Vergangenheit zu verbinden, und betrachtet sie als ein fremdes Land, das es zu erkunden gilt. Durch fesselnde Erzählungen taucht sein Werk in das dramatische Leben und die Entdeckungen bemerkenswerter Persönlichkeiten ein. Theokas lädt die Leser zu einer Reise ein, bei der die Literatur zum Reisepass für das Verständnis vergangener Epochen wird.

Martha's Vineyard Through Time: Tourism and the Cleansing Sea

96 Seiten
4 Lesestunden

No East Coast summer resort has as intriguing a beginning as that of Martha's Vineyard. Before it became a tourist mecca, it already had thousands of summer visitors, but visitors who came for salvation, not the sun. Wesleyan Grove, the site of the most successful campground revivals held anywhere, provided congregants with communal support for their new evangelical lives. The Vineyard Campground, however, also attracted those who sought physical expression in sunshine and sea air more than redemption.Local investors spotted the financial opportunity this presented, leading to the creation of the first town in the entire United States designed and built expressly for tourism. Photographs representative of this period of early Martha's Vineyard are herein paired with contemporary ones. There have been changes, but the basic yearnings of summer vacationers remain as they were over 150 years ago. A previous volume, Martha's Vineyard Through Time: The Present in the Past, concentrates more on the Island's architecture than its early commercialization.