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They Weathered the Storm

The Banks/Baldwin and Allied Families

By: Baldwin Ross Swift,Banks Walker Lockett

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They Weathered the Storm

The Banks/Baldwin and Allied Families

By: Baldwin Ross Swift,Banks Walker Lockett

Tracing my ancestry was challenging and painful--yet, exciting. I encountered learning experiences at my every turn, and had to climb over many a brick wall during my research. I must say that my persistent, tireless efforts to achieve my goal proved beneficial and rewarding. This book has been written not only to spark an interest in its reader for family research, but also to document my gratitude for those who struggled and weathered the emotional storms and endured to strengthen and secure our family ties. Unlike the famous writer Alex Haley, I was unable to link my ancestors to the country of Africa. The trace only led me to the state of Georgia. Our ancestors had many shades of color--from ivory to chestnut, dark brown, and ebony. Hair was all ways from kinky to straight to curly. Eyes ranged from blue to grey and brown. And noses as well as ears showed up little all the way to big. There were high cheekbones on some and round faces on others. Some were tall, some short. I attribute their many features to the Caucasian, Creek, Cherokee, Blackfoot Indian, and the African American bloodline. I must note that no legal references were uncovered to verify the location from which our ancestors migrated. Information concerning our surnames--Banks, Walker, Ross, Swift, and Lockett--I leave for the future generation to uncover. I give each of you my blessings, and I assure you your discoveries will be worth the challenge of doing the job. In this book you will witness my research and view my memory. I hope that as you read it you will learn new aspects of yourself.

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1410722317

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9781410722317

Martha Graham

When Dance Became Modern

By: Neil Baldwin

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Martha Graham

When Dance Became Modern

By: Neil Baldwin

A major biography—the first in three decades—of one of the most important artistic forces of the twentieth century, the legendary American dancer and choreographer who upended dance, propelling the art form into the modern age, and whose profound and pioneering influence is still being felt today. "Brings together all the elements of Graham’s colorful life...with wit, verve, critical discernment, and a powerful lyricism.”—Mary Dearborn, acclaimed author of Ernest Hemingway Time magazine called her “the Dancer of the Century.” Her technique, used by dance companies throughout the world, became the first long-lasting alternative to the idiom of classical ballet. Her pioneering movements—powerful, dynamic, jagged, edgy, forthright—combined with her distinctive system of training, were the epitome of American modernism, performance as art. Her work continued to astonish and inspire for more than sixty years as she choreographed more than 180 works. At the heart of Graham’s work: movement that could express inner feeling. Neil Baldwin, author of admired biographies of Man Ray (“Truly definitive . . . absolutely fascinating” —Patricia Bosworth) and Thomas Edison (“Absorbing, gripping, a major contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a remarkable era” —Robert Caro), gives us the artist and performer, the dance monument who led a cult of dance worshippers as well as the woman herself in all of her complexity. Here is Graham, from her nineteenth-century (born in 1894) Allegheny, Pennsylvania, childhood, to becoming the star of the Denishawn exotic ballets, and in 1926, at age thirty-two, founding her own company (now the longest-running dance company in America). Baldwin writes of how the company flourished during the artistic explosion of New York City’s midcentury cultural scene; of Erick Hawkins, in 1936, fresh from Balanchine’s School of American Ballet, a handsome Midwesterner fourteen years her junior, becoming Graham’s muse, lover, and eventual spouse. Graham, inspiring the next generation of dancers, choreographers, and teachers, among them: Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor. Baldwin tells the story of this large, fiercely lived life, a life beset by conflict, competition, and loneliness—filled with fire and inspiration, drive, passion, dedication, and sacrifice in work and in dance creation.

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577

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Knopf

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0385352336

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9780385352338

Pope Gregory X and the Crusades

By: Philip Bruce Baldwin

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Pope Gregory X and the Crusades

By: Philip Bruce Baldwin

First full-length study of Pope Gregory X in relation to Crusade, demonstrating his significant impact.

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265

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843839164

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9781843839163

Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

in large print

By: Oscar Wilde,Robert Baldwin Ross

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Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

in large print

By: Oscar Wilde,Robert Baldwin Ross

Reproduction of the original.

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150

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368400703

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9783368400705

The Story of Siegfried

By: James Baldwin

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The Story of Siegfried

By: James Baldwin

Exciting accounts of Siegfried, the young man who rode through fire to awaken the lovely Brunhild from a deep sleep, and adventure-packed retellings of "The Curse of Gold," "Nibelungen Land," "The War with the North-Kings" and sixteen other timeless tales, transport young readers to a captivating world of dragons, giants, and gods.

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258

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1st World Publishing

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1421811529

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9781421811529

Ideologies

By: Douglas Baldwin,William Calder

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Ideologies

By: Douglas Baldwin,William Calder

Used in Alberta schools for grade 12 Social Studies, ca. 1985-92.

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McGraw-Hill Ryerson

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0070923299

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9780070923294

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They Weathered the Storm

They Weathered the Storm

Martha Graham

Martha Graham

Pope Gregory X and the Crusades

Pope Gregory X and the Crusades

Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

The Story of Siegfried

The Story of Siegfried

Ideologies

Ideologies

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