Small-town living and faith come alive in the experiences and personalities of life in the tiny dairy farm community of Addicks, Texas. Let your mind wander back to a simpler time as you read poetry inspired by life in a small Methodist church. In Little White Church in the Vale, author Bonnie Watkins recalls her childhood in Addicks and paints a picture of her life in the community. In brilliant details, she describes the stained glass windows in her church, the gardenia bushes outside, and even what it felt like to wear her hair in pincurls on Saturday night in preparation for church on Sunday morning. Black-and-white photographs of small Texas churches tell stories for themselves, bringing another dimension to Watkins words. Whether youre from a big city or a farming community, youll find inspiration and refreshment for your soul in Little White Church in the Vale. Advanced Praise for Little White Church in the Vale: You can almost feel yourself sitting in the pews and watching the congregation of this small town church. PJ Pierce, author of Let me tell you what I've learned": Texas Wisewomen Speak Bonnie has brilliantly captured the charm, beauty, culture and even humor embodied in the rural congregation. You'll be reminded of the simplicity of country living and the transcendence of faith while you feel like youre looking at a Norman Rockwell painting. Will Davis, Jr., Senior Pastor of Austin Christian Fellowship and author of Pray Big and 10 Things Jesus Never Said
Women’s Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain is the first book-length study of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes’ amateur drama groups, which served as an umbrella organisation for women’s amateur drama. This work addresses a key historical gap by covering the activities, lives, and labour of women in rural England, Wales, and Scotland. It challenges gender-based assumptions about the value of women’s amateur theatre, highlighting the need for leisure opportunities and social connections in rural villages. The rapid expansion of women’s amateur drama groups is assessed in conjunction with major developments of the period, including the effect of post-1918 reconstruction efforts in rural regions, the revaluation of informal adult education schemes, the law’s influences and restrictions on amateur performances, and the impact of the Second World War on the ability of the Women’s Institutes to carve out a space for all-women’s drama groups that empowered women through education and skill-building programmes to aid in personal and community development. The broad scope of this research will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and non-specialists interested in cultural history and the lives of rural women after the First World War.
This book examines the British government’s response to the ‘superfluous women problem', and concerns about post-war unemployment more generally, by creating a migration society that was tasked with reducing the number of single women at home through overseas migration. The Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women (SOSBW) was created in 1919 to facilitate the transportation of female migrants to the former white settler colonies. To do so, the SOSBW worked with various domestic and dominion groups to find the most suitable women for migration, while also meeting the dominions’ demands for specific types of workers, particularly women for work in domestic service. While the Society initially aimed to meet its original mandate, it gradually developed its own vision of empire settlement and refocused its efforts on aiding the migration of educated and trained women who were looking for new, modern, and professional work opportunities abroad.
WHEN TORIN SINCLAIR’S mom gets a job as the town doctor in Snow Park, Colorado, Tor can’t wait to learn to snowboard. But on Tor’s first night there, a member of the high school snowboarding team dies. “It’s the curse,” everyone whispers. Tor’s new friends Drake and Raine explain that there’s an old Native American curse on the doctors of the town. Snow Park can never get a doctor to stay. Tor and his friends must piece together a mystery involving an old mine, a Ute curse, the entire snowboarding team—who just might be blood doping in order to win competitions— and an attempt to save the wild river otters of Colorado. But to complete the puzzle, will Tor have to ride the deadly White Gates? And how will he survive the avalanche that follows?
Little White Bird is based on true story about a little white dove that flew into my dream the day I died. The revelations that followed God was there with me! I felt his love, I heard the prayers, I heard the voices of conversations, and I felt all the love from family and friends and from strangers that I have yet not met! The truths that came through the revelations that I must share! My story begins the day I awoke! Was this real? Did this happen? Was this a dream? A three-week ventilator visit and fifty-eight days, I was going home! January 17, 2020, BC (Before COVID). I am a miracle. I returned home on March 12, 2020.
In Black and White in Winter, readers will learn the basics of color science and how certain colors show up more in certain seasons. This 24-page title features colorful visual aids, simple text, comprehension and extension activities, and more to effectively engage beginning readers and reinforce the information. The Concepts: Seasons and Colors series takes the learning of basic concepts to the next level. By connecting the science of colors to what students know about seasons, greater understanding is reached. Each 24-page title of this series features repetition, simple texts, and real-life photographs to reinforce ideas and make learning fun. Before- and after-reading activities support beginning readers and help them strengthen their reading comprehension skills
In Race at Predominantly White Independent Schools, Bonnie E. French investigates the management of “diversity” at predominantly White, independent schools in the northeastern United States. By conducting in-depth interviews with diversity policy developers and implementers within the independent school community, French explores current efforts toward racial equity and the relationship between racial equity and diversity. Data collected from interviews are supplemented with numerical data from the National Association of Independent Schools that chronicles enrollment and employment of people of color, as well as with content analysis of published materials from the independent school community. Using Critical Race Theory to frame this critique, French argues that the diversity movement, by not seeking to challenge the current state of inequality in a meaningful way, only serves to strengthen the segregated and unequal status quo.
Hand embroidery patterns of 10 adorable and precious raggedy Annie and Andy dolls. Patterns are beginner friendly and consist of straight stitches only. All you need to do is transfer to your fabric using your favorite method and start stitching! Each design is provided in 4 sizes ranging from about 3 inches to approximately 7-8 inches. Use your imagination to create your own projects ranging from quilts to pillow covers to wallhangings and more!
Between 1917 and 1919 women enlisted in the Women's Land Army, a national organisation with the task of increasing domestic food production. Behind the scenes organisers laboured to not only recruit an army of women workers, but to also dispel public fears that Britain's Land Girls would be defeminized and devalued by their wartime experiences.
If you are looking for the most complete and versatile cookbook for your shiny new Hamilton Beach Bread Machine, then this is exactly what you are looking for! Throughout this cookbook, you will find an introductory chapter that covers the fundamentals of baking and teaches you exactly how to use your Hamilton Beach Bread Machine and maintain it so that it lasts for years to come. And once you are done understanding the core concepts, you will have the option to jump into a massive collection of 100+ bread recipes, specifically written for the Hamilton Beach Bread Machine. The recipes are very carefully broken down into 14 different chapters so that you can easily find what you are looking for. Classical Bread Vegetable Bread Cheese Bread Sweet Bread Sourdough Bread Gluten-Free Bread Buns Wholegrain Bread Are just some of the awesome categories that you will find in this book! Whether you are a beginner or an absolute expert in the art of baking, the versatile nature of the recipes means that you are bound to find something that will fall in love with! So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead, purchase and download this book right away and start enjoying your adventure with the new Hamilton Beach Bread Machine!
Turn your favorite stories into enchanting wall hangings with 11 pictorial applique designs. Instructions, templates, and special finishing tips are included.
More Kitchen Keepsakes is a continuation of the highly successful cookbook, Kitchen Keepsakes. This collection of 500 flavorful, family-tested recipes features ten country kitchen illustrations and a section of menus. These easy-to-prepare recipes prove cooking does not have to be complicated to be delicious. Hats off to home cooking it's still the best!
The Chapbook No. 5 includes The Crux of Our Great Misunderstanding by Matt Hart; First, earth by Ann Fisher-Wirth; Vats by Luke Daly; My Far-Shooting Apollo by Joanna Grant; My Glass Terrace the Hinterland by Bonnie Jean Michalski; Kontakion by Patti White; A Primer for the Icarian Arts by Carey Scott Wilkerson; To When Tea Ties Hence to Wank It Too and Eminent Means of Basil Dado Hem-Welt by Volodymyr Bilyk.
Women’s reproduction, including conception, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and other physical acts of motherhood (as well as the rejection of those roles), played a critical role in the evolution and management of Cuba’s population. While existing scholarship has approached Cuba’s demographic history through the lens of migration, both forced and voluntary, Race and Reproduction in Cuba challenges this male-normative perspective by centering women in the first book-length history of reproduction in Cuba. Bonnie A. Lucero traces women’s reproductive lives, as well as key medical, legal, and institutional interventions influencing them, over four centuries. Her study begins in the early colonial period with the emergence of the island’s first charitable institutions dedicated to relieving poor women and abandoned white infants. The book’s centerpiece is the long nineteenth century, when elite interventions in women’s reproduction hinged not only on race but also legal status. It ends in 1965 when Cuba’s nascent revolutionary government shifted away from enforcing antiabortion laws that had historically targeted impoverished women of color. Questioning how elite demographic desires—specifically white population growth and nonwhite population management—shaped women’s reproduction, Lucero argues that elite men, including judges, physicians, philanthropists, and public officials, intervened in women’s reproductive lives in racially specific ways. Lucero examines how white supremacy shaped tangible differences in the treatment of women and their infants across racial lines and outlines how those reproductive outcomes were crucial in sustaining racial hierarchies through moments of tremendous political, economic, and social change.
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