Manufactured housing comes of age: a support network for resident-owned communities

Owners of manufactured homes who cooperatively purchase the park where they live are discovering benefits such as increased value of homes, decreased maintenance costs, faster resale, and willing lenders.Housing - New Hampshire ; Housing - New England

A fresh look at manufactured housing

Manufactured housing park cooperatives are becoming popular in New Hampshire, and for good reason. Cooperative ownership brings numerous benefits to residents who previously owned a home on rented land. Paul Bradley tells how these cooperatives have grown and explains what is yet to be done.Housing - New Hampshire

Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., b. 1934 (SC 2994)

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2994. “Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Overview of Six Quiet Walkways,” by Ray Buckberry and Arnold Franklin, a guide, with maps and color illustrations, to six walking trails in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Butterfly, Möbius, and Double Burnside algebras of noncyclic finite groups

The double Burnside ring B(G,G) of a finite group G is the Grothendieck ring of finite (G,G)-bisets with respect to the tensor product of bisets over G. Many invariants of the group G, such as the (single) Burnside ring B(G) and the character ring R_C(G), are modules over B(G,G). The double Burnside ring B(G,G) and its various subrings appear as crucial ingredients in functorial representation theory, homotopy theory, and the theory of fusion systems. It is known to be semisimple over rationals if and only if G is cyclic, and in this case an explicit isomorphism onto a direct product of full matrix algebras is given by Boltje and Danz (2013). But not much is know beyond that on the explicit algebra structure. We generalize some techniques of Boltje and Danz for cyclic groups to arbitrary finite groups and as a result obtain an explicit isomorphism of the rational double Burnside algebra of a finite group G into a block triangular matrix algebra when all Sylow subgroups (for all primes) of G are cyclic. Such groups can be characterized as groups G where the Zassenhaus Butterfly lemma gives the meet of two sections (H, K) of G with respect to the subsection relation. Key ingredients are a refinement of the inclusion relation among subgroups of G x G and Möbius inversion over various posets of subgroups. This is a joint work with Goetz Pfeiffer (Galway).Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Resident Purchase of the Champion Mobile Home Park

This is a case study of the first resident-owned community created outside of New Hampshire under the guidance of the ROC USA system, and featuring PathStone, a member of the NeighborWorks Network and a certified technical assistance provider (CTAP) for ROC USA

Björkman, Brent Alan, b. 1964 (FA 1098)

Collection contains transcripts of video interviews conducted by Brent Björkman in 2013 and 2014 with park rangers from Mammoth Cave National Park. Topics of note within the interviews include the growth of women in the ranks of the ranger service, fiscal challenges faced by the park system, generational traditions, and the virtues of raising a family within the park community. Transcripts are part of a larger project titled Rangerlore: The Occupational Folklife of Parks, which was created by Björkman after receiving the Archie Green Fellowship from the Library of Congress

Campus and community collaboration

Clark University President John Bassett talks with Communities & Banking about the university’s relationship with the Main South neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts.Community development - Massachusetts ; Universities and colleges - Massachusetts

Complete communities: green space and affordable housing

When advocates for affordable housing and parks join forces, both are more likely to accomplish their goals. The authors describe successes that are inspiring replication nationwide.Housing ; Community development ; Conservation of natural resources

Chunson Park: Winner 1990 Richmond Piano Competition, February 26, 1991

This is the concert program of the Chunson Park: Winner 1990 Richmond Piano Competition performance on Tuesday, February 26, 1991 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Toccata in C minor, BWV 911 by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata in B-flat major, K. 570 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Scherzo in E major, Op. 54 by Frédéric Chopin, L'Isle Joyeuse by Claude Debussy, and Sonata for Piano, Op. 26 by Samuel Barber. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Economic development in Maine: the Piscataquis county model

Not long ago, few people would have regarded Piscataquis County as an economic development model, but today it is charting a new course for rural Maine.Economic development - Maine ; Rural development - Maine