Cumberland River Guidebook

This is a practical guidebook to navigating the Ohio River and traveling along the river from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Cairo, Illinois. It includes detailed navigational charts and historical information about the river, its locks, tributaries, islands, and anchorage locations. It also covers river-friendly cities, towns and communities as well as highways and roads adjacent or leading to the river. It includes GPS coordinates, distance markers, and warnings.

This is a practical guidebook to navigating the Wabash River and traveling along the river its entire length from Ft. Recovery, Ohio, through Indiana, to its confluence with the Ohio River at the Indiana/Illinois border. It includes detailed navigational charts, geographic and historical information about the river, along with the location of landmarks, hazards, bridges, ramps, tributaries, fuel and supplies. It contains a section called "Reading the River," which has advice for traveling the river safely. It also includes GPS readings, aerial photos, and descriptions and maps of roads adjacent or leading to the river.

Tennessee River Guidebook Explore the beautiful Tennessee River and be safe with this complete guide. The river is being broken down into 57 sections and each chart and description is in great detail. In addition to navigational information, this book shows historical locations and many great places to visit. There are several large lakes on the Tennessee River, giving it the nickname "Great Lakes of the South". They are formed by some impressive Locks & Dams. This book will provide all the information needed for each lock, including the approach, the amount of lift, radio channel, phone number. There is also a special section about locking procedures, so that boaters will have a good experience locking through. Entire 652 miles from Knoxville, TN to Paducah, KY 122 Pages with full color photos. 57 Section charts and descriptions. 176 photographs. Tributaries and lakes are shown. Islands mapped and described. Boat launching ramps shown. GPS Coordinates. Distance markers. Warning inserts. Marina locations and info.

Before there were guidebooks, there were just guides—people in the community you could count on to show you around. I'll Take You There is written by and with the people who most intimately know Nashville, foregrounding the struggles and achievements of people's movements toward social justice. The colloquial use of "I'll take you there" has long been a response to the call of a stranger: for recommendations of safe passage through unfamiliar territory, a decent meal and place to lay one's head, or perhaps a watering hole or juke joint. In this book, more than one hundred Nashvillians "take us there," guiding us to places we might not otherwise encounter. Their collective entries bear witness to the ways that power has been used by social, political, and economic elites to tell or omit certain stories, while celebrating the power of counternarratives as a tool to resist injustice. Indeed, each entry is simultaneously a story about place, power, and the historic and ongoing struggle toward a more just city for all. The result is akin to the experience of asking for directions in an unfamiliar place and receiving a warm offer from a local to lead you on, accompanied by a tale or two.

Harriette Arnow’s roots ran deep into the Cumberland River country of Kentucky and Tennessee, and out of her closeness to that land and its people comes this remarkable history. The first of two companion volumes, Seedtime on the Cumberland captures the triumphs and tragedies of everyday life on the frontier, a place where the land both promised and demanded much. In the years between 1780 and 1803, this part of the country presented tremendous opportunity to those who endeavored to make a new life there. Drawing on an extensive body of primary sources—including family journals, court records, and personal inventories—Arnow paints a stirring portrait of these intrepid people. Like the midden at some ancient archaeological site, these accumulated items become a treasure awaiting the insight and organization of an interpreter. Arnow also draws on a medium she believed in unerringly—oral history, the rich tradition that shaped so much of her own family and regional experience. A classic study of the Old Southwest, Seedtime on the Cumberland documents with stirring perceptiveness the opening of the Appalachian frontier, the intersection of settlers and Native Americans, and the harsh conditions of life in the borderlands.