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Author Carlisle, E. Fred (Ervin Fred), 1935- author.

Title Hollow and home : a history of self and place / E. Fred Carlisle.

Publication Info. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2017.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover ; Title Page ; Copyrights ; Table of Contents ; List of Photographs and Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; The Place Is the Thing ; 1. James Melville Cox and Brookside Farm ; 2. Placeless in America ; Hollow ; 3. Clover Hollow: Our Sanctuary ; 4. Three Meadow Mountain: Homage and Innovation ; 5. Clover Hollow: The Place ; 6. The 1875 Lafon Home Place ; 7. The 1892 Givens Home Place ; 8. Outsiders Fitting In ; 9. Interlude ; Home ; 10. A Boy from Columbus. A Man of Delaware, Ohio ; 11. 208 West Lincoln Avenue ; 12. The Delaware City Schools ; North Elementary.
Frank B. Willis High School 13. Downtown Delaware ; 14. The Road Out: Ohio Wesleyan University ; 15. A Moveable Place ; 16. New Delaware: The Place Is Still the Thing ; 17. Oaknoll Farm: Elizabeth Adair Obenshain ; Notes and Sources ; Index.
Summary "Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives shape the individuals we become. It proposes that place is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Place refers to geographical and constructed places--location, topography, landscape, and buildings. It also refers to the psychological, social, and cultural influences at work at a given location. These elements act in concert to constitute a place. Carlisle incorporates perspectives from writers like Edward S. Casey, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Yi-Fu Tuan, and Witold Rybczynski, but he applies theory with a light touch. Placing this literature in dialog with personal experience, he concentrates on two places that profoundly influenced him and enabled him to overcome a lifelong sense of always leaving his pasts behind. The first is Clover Hollow in Appalachian Virginia, where the author lived for ten years among fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-generation residents. The people and places there enabled him to value his own past and primary places in a new way. The story then turns to Carlisle's life growing up in Delaware, Ohio. He describes in rich detail the ways the town shaped him in both enabling and disabling ways. In the end, after years of moving from place to place, Carlisle's experience in Appalachia helped him rediscover his hometown--both the Old Delaware, where he grew up, and the New Delaware, a larger, thriving small city--as his true home. The themes of the book transcend specific localities and speak to the relationship of self and place everywhere."-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Carlisle, E. Fred (Ervin Fred), 1935- -- Homes and haunts.
Carlisle, E. Fred (Ervin Fred), 1935-
Human geography.
Human geography.
Space and time.
Space and time.
Identity (Psychology)
Identity (Psychology)
Architecture and society.
Architecture and society.
Dwellings -- Psychological aspects.
Dwellings -- Psychological aspects.
Personal space -- Psychological aspects.
Personal space -- Psychological aspects.
Place (Philosophy)
Place (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title History of self and place
Other Form: Print version: Carlisle, E. Fred (Ervin Fred), 1935- Hollow and home. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, ©2017 9781943665815 (OCoLC)983824460
ISBN 9781943665846 (electronic book)
1943665842 (electronic book)
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1943665826
9781943665815
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