scholarly journals Earthquakes and ghost towns in Sicily: from the Valle del Belìce in 1968 to the Val di Noto in 1693. The first stage of the virtual seismic itinerary through Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (Vol 62 (2019)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaele Azzaro ◽  
Massimiliano Cascone ◽  
Alfio Amantia
Keyword(s):  
Ghost Towns

Community Studies as Formative Evaluations for Citizens

1989 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Marion Dobbert
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Community Studies ◽  
Evaluation Theory ◽  
Road Signs ◽  
Ghost Towns ◽  
General Store ◽  
Rural Depopulation

Evaluation has been defined by Blaine Worthen and J. R. Sanders (1973, Educational Evaluation: Theory and Practice. Worthington, Ohio: C.A. Jones Publishing Company, p. 19) as making a "determination of the worth of a thing." The thought of evaluating a community is one that, at first hearing, is likely to give any anthropologist a cold chill. But actually, communities are evaluated all the time; the evolutionary socioeconomic processes of a region continually, although impersonally, evaluate communities. In the process, some are selected to live and others to die and become ghost towns (or future archaeological discoveries). My region, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas, is filled with towns that have been evaluated by this process. While they are not ghost towns, they have been reduced to two road signs announcing their names, a tavern, and a deserted general store. This type of evaluation is occurring through the rural areas of the world. It results in rural depopulation and the demise of rural community forms which have been highly valued historically. We might call this process a summative evaluation of a community—a very final one with little chance of successful appeal.

Iron in the Pines: The Story of New Jersey's Ghost Towns and Bog Iron

1960 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Stuart Bruchey ◽  
Arthur D. Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Ghost Towns

Ghost Homes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eluned Gramich
Keyword(s):  
Back Pain ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Elderly Individuals ◽  
Second Homes ◽  
Ghost Towns ◽  
Cultural Tensions ◽  
Rural Places

‘Ghost Homes’ explores the evolving sense of community in a village in rural West Wales, deeply affected by the pandemic. It looks critically at the linguistic and cultural tensions between English holidaymakers and Welsh inhabitants. Using Welsh-English code-switching, it tells the story of a mother and son on the outskirts of Cardigan, navigating illness alongside the isolating pressures of lockdown, highlighting the limitations as well as support of ‘community’. Welsh-speaking Judy is alone at the height of the pandemic, suffering from debilitating back pain. She relies on her middle-aged son, Will, with whom she has a strained relationship. The short story shows the fragile nature of ‘community’ in rural places, especially in West Wales where seaside villages have been bought up as second homes for wealthy English families and, during the pandemic, became ghost towns for the few (often elderly) individuals who continued to live there.

Ghost Towns

2011 ◽  
pp. 117-138
Author(s):  
Robert S. Leiken
Keyword(s):  
Ghost Towns

Ghost Towns of Texas

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Mary E. Reed ◽  
T. Lindsay Baker
Keyword(s):  
Ghost Towns

Recovery of Compacted Soils in Mojave Desert Ghost Towns

1986 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 1341-1344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Webb ◽  
John W. Steiger ◽  
Howard G. Wilshire
Keyword(s):  
Mojave Desert ◽  
Compacted Soils ◽  
Ghost Towns
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