Amato, Joseph Anthony
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Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
A place called home : writings on the midwestern small town
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Identifier: 99944-RefShelf-Minnesota & Regional
Abstract
Describes the evolving nature of the small Midwestern town, from 1800s to present. Long held as an iconic place in American culture, the reality is more complex. This is a collection of writings from historians, novelists, social scientists, poets and journalists featuring well know authors such as Sherwood Anderson, Carol Bly, Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, Sinclair Lewis, Garrison Keillor, Mark Twain as well as many lessor know but important writers. The five chronological sections trace...
Dates:
Copyright: 2003
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
At the headwaters : the 1993 flood in Southwestern Minnesota : 40 photos and 40 essays
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Identifier: 5549-RefShelf-Minnesota & Regional
Table of contents
The great flood of 1993 -- Summary of events -- Not one flood, but three -- Two great floods, two different experiences -- In the shadow of the ridge -- Fire and flood: the Pipestone experience -- One city, one ditch, one big problem -- Three crests of the Des Moines -- "Whiskey's for drink'n and water's for fighting" -- Septic tanks and sump pumps and the king of rock and roll -- Anxious days and nights -- Under siege: flooding in the state parks -- An island for livestock -- The losing...
Dates:
Copyright: 1995
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Bridging the rivers of experience : a booklet of conversation starters.
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Identifier: 9999-RefShelf-General
Table of Contents
Parents and grandparents: we are all immigrants and migrants / by Joseph Amato -- Julia Elizondo came to Willmar to work / by Daniel Cornejo -- Life in the woods / by Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa) -- Veblen and the Mall of America / by Lynda McDonnell.
Dates:
Publication: November 1995
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Community of strangers : change, turnover, turbulence & the transformation of a midwestern country town
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Identifier: 99948-RefShelf-Town Histories
Abstract
Examines the business history of Marshall, Minnesota, a southwestern Minnesota regional center. Surveys accelerating change, turnover, turbulence, and the current transformation of the town and its surrounding region.
Dates:
Copyright: 1999
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Countryside, mirror of ourselves : essays about calling farmers names, living in the city, and other rural gleanings
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Identifier: 99950-RefShelf-General
Table of contacts
Countryside as quilt -- Progress: a revolutionary idea -- Migrants on a long, difficult journey -- Calling farmers names -- "Your barn door is open" -- Old rural order: a world without intimacy -- Peasants in the city -- Countryside: mirror of ourselves.
Dates:
Copyright: 1992
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Draining the Great Oasis : an environmental history of Murray County, Minnesota
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Identifier: 5816-RefShelf-Minnesota & Regional
Abstract
A collection of 20 essays, by 15 authors from different perspectives, on the environmental history of Murray County, Minnesota, an area of tallgrass prairie.
Dates:
Copyright: 2001
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Ghent USA
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Identifier: 9991-RefShelf-Towns
Abstract
Documentary that focuses on the small southwestern towns of Ghent, Minnesota and Marshall, Minnesota. It provides a history of the towns, and includes interviews with several families that settled there, discussing their migration and farm life.
Dates:
February 7, 1994
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Limnological study of Cottonwood Lake
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Identifier: 548-RefShelf-Town Histories
Abstract
This study represents a compilation of three reports. The first report was accomplished by Dr. Joe Amato of Southwest Minnesota State College (SMSC). This report is unique in that this is one of the few times that a social scientist has been involved in a scientific study of this nature with natural scientists. The Lake Committee, however, agreed that a social scientiest would serve an important function in terma of communicating the scientific results to the media and to the public in...
Dates:
1974
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Minnesota, real & imagined : a view from the countryside
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Identifier: 99958-RefShelf-Minnesota & Regional
Dates:
Copyright: 2001
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Pipestone and the red rock : inventing peoples and towns
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Identifier: 99962-RefShelf-Town Histories
Dates:
Copyright: 2002
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
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