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The Delaware Canal: From Stone Coal Highway to Historic Landmark

By: Marie Murphy Duess

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The Delaware Canal: From Stone Coal Highway to Historic Landmark

By: Marie Murphy Duess

Vault aboard a hinge boat with Marie Duess as she nimbly navigates the historic waters of the Delaware Canal. Any ramble along the now-serene Pennsylvania waterway will show you why its beauty inspired so many famous brushstrokes. But only on a voyage with Duess will you dock at hidden places that doubled as underground railroad stops and Prohibition-era speakeasies and witness the inventive genius of Josiah White and the instinct and muscles of the endearing mules that hauled the nation into the Industrial Revolution. By journey's end, you will be reluctant to part with your newfound boatmates after looking into the hopeless eyes of five-year-old mine laborers and listening to the rousing choruses of boat captains who poured a hearty lifetime into steering coal from Easton to Bristol.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614234612

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9781614234616

Colonial Inns and Taverns of Bucks County

How Pubs, Taprooms and Hostelries Made Revolutionary History

By: Marie Murphy Duess

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Colonial Inns and Taverns of Bucks County

How Pubs, Taprooms and Hostelries Made Revolutionary History

By: Marie Murphy Duess

Inns and taverns occupied a position of central importance in colonial American society. Rest stop, hotel, provisioning center, drinking saloon, dining establishment, center of news and gossip, quartering for soldiersthese retreats served an astonishing variety of roles. In Colonial Inns and Taverns of Bucks County, author Marie Duess filters the colonial and early modern history of Bucks County through the areas wide array of stagecoach stops, grog shops and taprooms. These inns created a whole world unto themselves, with a distinct vernacular (did you know the concepts of backlog and minding your Ps and Qs both originated from inn life?), set of customs and rituals and purpose within the greater societal framework. Follow author Marie Duess into the past and discover a fascinating facet of life in early Pennsylvania.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614232385

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9781614232384

Joshua's Ring

By: Marie Murphy Duess,Rosemary Wilker,Joseph Wilker

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Joshua's Ring

By: Marie Murphy Duess,Rosemary Wilker,Joseph Wilker

Joshua Wilker didn't want to die. He didn't want to be known for miracles. He didn't want to do anything more remarkable than any other boy would. He just wanted to live an ordinary life, with the normal dreams of every boy-the typical desires, concerns, and hopes of every boy. His parents didn't want him to die. The only miracle they looked for was one that would save his life and make him well so that he could live and grow to manhood. This is a story that is told too often by too many parents of children who are diagnosed with life-threatening disease and lose their battle against death. Yet this story, perhaps like others, has a rather remarkable outcome...not an ending, but a continuation. In the end it is a testament that these children didn't lose to death, but triumphed over it. Joshua's Ring is a story about courage, strength, truth, faith, and the power of love even after death.

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1484858905

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Book's by Marie Murphy Duess

The Delaware Canal: From Stone Coal Highway to Historic Landmark

The Delaware Canal: From Stone Coal Highway to Historic Landmark

Colonial Inns and Taverns of Bucks County

Colonial Inns and Taverns of Bucks County

Joshua's Ring

Joshua's Ring

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