The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s
On July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina. The impromptu campout was a pit stop for the group on their way to a Rolling Stones concert in Charlotte. Early that evening, they drank beer, smoked marijuana, ......
This book is a companion to An Illustrated History of Palm Beach: How Palm Beach Evolved Over 150 Years from Wilderness to Wonderland (Pineapple Press, 2020).This book offers three tours that showcase the history of Palm Beach through its architecture. The tours are arranged in chronological order and are illustrated with historical photographs ......
New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
WINNER, 2025 GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE InsideHook: The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This November A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic recovery In 1969, as all students of New York City history think they have learned, master builder Robert Moses ......
In western New Mexico in 1905 there rode a notorious outlaw from the Mexican border named Henry Coleman. With a Colt .45 strapped to his hip, Coleman (alias Street Hudspeth from the well-to-do Texas family) came to be either despised as a deceitful rustler and ruthless murderer or admired as a man of honor and great courage, a popular and ......
In 1774, many people in thirteen of Great Britain's North American colonies were angry. They had been ordered to pay money-taxes-to the government. However, they had no governmental representatives in faraway England to say how they wanted their money spent. The colonists rallied around the cry "Taxation Without Representation." They boycotted ......
A comprehensive history of Philadelphia from the region's original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century Philadelphia is famous for its colonial and revolutionary buildings and artifacts, which draw tourists from far and wide to gain a better understanding of the nation's founding. Philadelphians, too, value ......
Elmer Thomas (1876-1965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state's first legislature and in Congress. This memoir, written shortly after he left the U.S. Senate in 1951 but never before published, chronicles his long career and offers a wealth of information on people and events that helped shape the development of the state and the course ......
The ultimate getaway destination, Key West offers visitors picturesque lodging, spas, dining, shopping, and beach and sea adventures year-round. With stunning photography by Missy Janes, photographer for Pineapple Press' Palm Beach, this book is a visual journey around the island capturing hot spots any tourist wants to remember. From the historic ......
A major rediscovery in the history of Northwest art Beulah Loomis Hyde (1886-1983) was an important cultural figure in Tacoma, Washington, as both a contemporary painter and a patron of the arts. Growing up in the rugged Northwest environment, Hyde was an athletic individualist who defied the societal restrictions of her time. She signed her ......
