The objective is to produce and publish comprehensive chronologies built around objective social political and cultural categories based upon primary, anecdotal and official written materials, so that the people of the Venice community can re-imagine themselves using the mirror of the past. No overarching narratives are provided.

History of Venice of America Volume #1

History of the Venice Canals: 1850-1939

Table of Contents:

Page 3: Preface

Page 5: Short Chronologies

Page 8: Introduction

Page 13: Chapter #1, From the Idea of Venice in 1902 to the Construction of the Canals in 1904

Page 19: Chapter #2, The First Years of their Existence, from Construction in 1905 to the Incorporation of the City of Venice in 1911

Page 29: Chapter #3, From the Establishment of an Independent City to the Death of Abbot Kinney and the
Great Sewage Crisis; 1912-1921

Page 40: Chapter #4, The Campaign to Turn the Canals into Streets From its Inception in 1922 to the Filling in 1929

Page 55: Chapter #5, The Canals in the Period of Transmutation 1930-1952

History of Venice of America Volume #2

Politics: Annexation and Secession Movements in Venice: 1919-1939

Table of Contents

a. History of Venice Annexation and Secession Movements pp.3-42

b. Glosses:

Page 4: Daniel H. Burnham: City Beautiful by Lisa Grace

Page 6: A God's Last Dream: Ed Mendelson

Page 12: The Menagerie: A Story of the Al. G. Barnes Circus Wild Animal Show: Laura Mitchell

Page 20: Norman Marsh and Clarence Russell: Lisa Grace

Dedication Page: Leo Tolsoi's Methodology and De-Construction.

"The essence of Tolsoi's early art was to push analysis to its furthest
limit: hence it is that the details he offers are not complex cultural
fact, but, as it were, atoms of experience -- the indivisible units of
immediate perception".

"An important form of this dissecting and atomizing method (and one that
survived all the changes of his style) is what Victor Shklovsky has called... 'making it strange' [ostranneniye]. It consists in never calling complex things by their accepted name, but always disintegrating a complex action or object into its indivisible components".

"This method strips the world of the labels attached to it by habit and by social convention, and gives it a 'dis-civilized' appearance, as it might have appeared to Adam on the day of creation".

It is easy to see that the method, while it gives unusual freshness to imaginative representations is, in essence, hostile to all culture and all
social form, and is psychologically akin to anarchism."

Prince Dmitrii S. Mirsky. A History of Russian Literature: From its
Beginning to 1900. First edition in English. Alfred Knopf, 1926

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