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For nearly seven decades, Jane Blaffer Owen was the driving force behind the restoration and revitalization of the town of New Harmony, Indiana. In this delightful memoir, Blaffer Owen describes the transformational effect the town had on her life. An oil heiress from Houston, she met and married Ke...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Owen, Anne Blaffer (Autor de introducción, etc.), Owen, Jane Blaffer (Autor de introducción, etc.), McCaslin, Nancy Mangum (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Regions & Countries > Americas.
History & Archaeology.
United States Local History.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Manners and customs
New Harmony (Ind.) > History.
New Harmony (Ind.) > Social life and customs.
Indiana > New Harmony
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / John Philip Newell
  • Foreword / J. Pittman McGehee
  • Preface / Jane Blaffer Owen
  • Acknowledgments / Jane Blaffer Owen
  • Historical note / Connie A. Weinzapfel
  • From spoken to written words / Nancy Mangum McCaslin
  • Twin vows
  • Indian Mound
  • The sixth generation
  • Harmonist House
  • Harmonist Church and School
  • Acquiring the granary and mansion
  • May Day fête
  • Lipchitz
  • Enter Paul Tillich
  • Polio epidemic
  • Sir George MacLeod
  • Iona
  • Assy
  • Kilbinger House
  • Poet's House and beyond
  • Violets down the lane
  • Enter Philip Johnson
  • Cornerstone dedication
  • May Day dedication of the roofless church and Barrett-Gate House
  • Tillich visits Houston
  • MacLeod's dedication of the Lipchitz Gate
  • Estranged and reunited : the new being
  • The undying dead
  • Paul Tillich Park
  • Paul Tillich commemorative service
  • Open windows
  • Tumbling walls
  • Glass House
  • Orchard House
  • Rapp-Maclure-Owen House restoration
  • Art and Carol's garden
  • Epilogue
  • Editor's note
  • Afterword : life was to celebrate / Anne Dale Owen
  • Afterword : through a child's eyes / Jane Dale Owen
  • Biography
  • Notes
  • Town map legend.

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