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Historic Takings in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Recreation and Remains
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2022
Summary
The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (DEWA) is among the busiest National Park Service (NPS) units with millions of annual visitors. In this book, David Fazzino uses oral history and archival work to consider the ramifications of government land takings, done half a century ago to uproot families and communities across 70,000 acres in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Fazzino situates these land takings in historical context to explain the ways places have been taken, both physically and ideologically, in the name of progress, development, wilderness, and recreation. The author contrasts legal valuations, measured along utilitarian and material lines, with lived valuations which account for place as experiential, intimate, personal, and relational. Fazzino also considers the ruins of what was and the remains of past lives in the valley to suggest inclusive possibilities of future management regimes in DEWA and federal public lands more broadly.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2739-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2740-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
246
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
Property and Place in the United States No access Pages 21 - 44
American Conservation and Preservation No access Pages 45 - 78
Initial Inhabitants and Takings No access Pages 79 - 120
Settler Development in the Upper Minisink No access Pages 121 - 144
More Takings No access Pages 145 - 182
The Park and Surrounding Communities Today No access Pages 183 - 210
