Jack and Lem explores the enduring friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne Billings (aka "Lem"). Jack Kennedy and Lem Billings met at Choate and remained friends until the Dallas gunfire that ended Kennedy's life thirty years later. Featuring interviews with Ben Bradlee, Gore Vidal, Ted Sorenson, friends, family, and many others, award -- winning journalist David Pitts begins the story with the early friendship between the men. Though Lem never held an official role in the Kennedy administration, his friendship and insight were much valued, so much so that he had his own room at the White House. This is the story of Jack and Lem and the climate for gays during he Kennedy era -- the story of a great friendship that grew and survived against the odds.
Carvings on the Heart recalls the teachings of Jesus, the basics that are often lost in our religions. These "laws of Christ" are to be carved on human hearts, not on tablets of stone. The book discusses twenty commandments that he intended for us to have written on our hearts, guiding our lives. This book is about changing your life by letting Jesus carve his laws on your heart. It's an easy read with a sprinkling of refreshing humor. Yet the book presents a depth of information suitable for more intense consideration and study. The message of the book can improve your life, happiness, and hope by transforming you into a Jesus person. It's a great basis for a study group or class. Carvings on the Heart is suitable for all Christians or for anyone seeking a better understanding of what Jesus expects from his people.
Genealogy and Genetic Genealogy of the Subject families with a name index. 264 pages, 73 pages in Color.We have now identified 2,711 descendants of Pitman Pitts and Mary C. Andrews Pitts and 1,596 descendants of the parents of A. J. Wright (Moses Wright and his wife named Martha).Because of the huge number of relatives that have been found it is not possible to list everyone in this book. Consequently this book is not a comprehensive documentation of the Wright, Pitts, Arnold, Walden, Robinson and afffiliated families, but instead is an overview which highlights some of the family history and stories which have been passed down.
forestdale is a book about LIFE. It answers the one question we all had as children, a question covering every problem in our worldWHY? It lets us rediscover the simplicity of living before we felt threatened by orders to Grow up! and reminders that Youre not a child anymore! To these, forestdalians would innocently answer, Why? Why not be both? In this first book of short stories about forestdale, all the fears and problems facing the human world are visualized through the eyes of animals. Readers, set aside your limitations and visit forestdale, where love and hate, pride and prejudice, comedy and tragedy, bravery and bravado, cowardice, and finally, even life and death, are met head-on through the eyes of this wonderful group of animal characters. BE BOLD! says the animals book of The Giver. DONT JUST LOOK AT LIFE. LEAP INTO IT. Forget that you are a human and join our wonderful collection of animal characters as they LEAP INTO LIFE and bravely, though more often comically, struggle through a years challenges in their township known as forestdale.
This book develops tools to handle C*-algebras arising as completions of convolution algebras of sections of line bundles over possibly non-Hausdorff groupoids. A fundamental result of Gelfand describes commutative C*-algebras as continuous functions on locally compact Hausdorff spaces. Kumjian, and later Renault, showed that Gelfand's result can be extended to include non-commutative C*-algebras containing a commutative C*-algebra. In their setting, the C*-algebras in question may be described as the completion of convolution algebras of functions on twisted Hausdorff groupoids with respect to a certain norm. However, there are many natural settings in which the Kumjian–Renault theory does not apply, in part because the groupoids which arise are not Hausdorff. In fact, non-Hausdorff groupoids have been a source of surprising counterexamples and technical difficulties for decades. Including numerous illustrative examples, this book extends the Kumjian–Renault theory to a much broader class of C*-algebras. This work will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the area of groupoid C*-algebras, the interface between dynamical systems and C*-algebras, and related fields.
John Edward Ross was born about 1815 in Monroe County, Tennessee. He married Martha Melton in 1836 in Monroe County, Tennessee and had two children: Rebecca Jane Ross in 1837 and John Edward Ross II in 1840. Rebecca married Joseph Abner Wren and the Ross and Wren families came to Texas sometime before 1870. There are about 900 descendants of John Edward Ross including the surnames: Ayers, Babin, Boggs, Bullard, Birdsong, Braach, Branch, Briton, Brown, Buschhorn, Campbell, Cave, Cooper, Couch, Craig, Floyd, Garrett, Gay, Goode, Hall, Hardin, Hill, Hilbert, Hinkle, Johnson, Kaler, Kersey, Kraft, Lindley, Lovell, Lyle, Meador, Melton, Morton, Moreland, Morton, Murphy, Parrish, Peden, Penny, Pickens, Pitts, Prince, Puryear, Robinson, Rountree, Ragsdale, Screven, Sell, Sellberg, Shirley, Smith, Snyder, Sprowls, Steely, Taylor, Tower, Weeks, Welborn, West, Wood, and Wren.
10 Stories inspired by the American West from authors around the world.Vol. 1 Issue 1. Fall 2014Featuring stories from:Paul LorelloJim WilskyDawn VogelAidan ThornDavid James KeatonTom PittsCoy HallRobert Lowell RussellGareth SparkChristopher Daviscover art by J.T. Lindroos
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