Photojournalists Bob and Liz Randall spent two years exploring Florida's ancient and enchanting Ocklawaha River. Their journey provides an inside look at the rich recreational resources of the river, its wildlife and the people, past and present, who contributed to its history and welfare. Along the way, they met artists, environmentalists, captains, law enforcement officials, conservationists, filmmakers, historians and local descendants whose lives are inextricably intertwined with the prehistoric river. From its subterranean and aquatic past to the Seminole Indian Wars, the steamboat era and political struggles, many voices are integral to the river's survival and to one of the longest environmental conflicts in Florida history.
The true story of the long-unsolved killing of a celebrity in northern Florida: “A page-turner.” —First Coast Living The murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley, a former model and television hostess who was once engaged to Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., is still notorious more than four decades after it occurred. The only eyewitness said a man attacked Lindsley with a machete in broad daylight on the front steps of her mansion. Gossip swirled that neighbor Frances Bemis knew who killed Lindsley and would notify authorities—and then Bemis was later murdered on her nightly walk. Police arrested only one suspect for Lindsley’s murder, which remains unsolved to this day. Here, Elizabeth Randall replaces the rumors with research, and draws from over one thousand pages of depositions, records, official county documentation, and interviews to reveal the story behind this shocking crime. Includes photos
Running for years on the same path, this avid runner’s once regular routine becomes now the place she has been called to do the Lord’s work. For many years she ran to satisfy her fitness addiction, though now turning her life toward God, this path rendered divinely purposed. She runs with a longing for the Lord, running to satisfy this calling of His. The Lord has taken the life of just an ordinary one and used it for His glory. “I am a child of God, a daughter of the King. The Lord has made me entirely able to write these three filled books. Without Him, these works would not be found.”
Orlando's historic districts are separate throughout the city, yet its landmarks and its memories unite them. Images of Orlando from 1875 to 2022 paint a picture of a landscape dotted with cattle and orange trees exploding into a bustling city. While some authors claim that Orlando's history is lost, these images show how the city's Historic Preservation Board has safeguarded many cultural and architectural treasures.
The author shares an emotional journey in tear and fear, the agony of watching her mother suffer an oppressive delirium, attacking and ravaging any rationality, mental disturbances prevalent with those aged. Well into this downward spiral, a grim diagnosis of dementia with probable Alzheimer’s with agitation and ICD, impulse control disorder, was finally established. Written from a daughter’s perspective entangled in the onslaught of the progressive collapse, thrown into a hellish world, her soul poured out, mother and daughter caught between the gates of Hell. For what comes is an affliction destroying those once stable, scholarly and accomplished, capable and competent, gifted and skilled. Though knowing that in this fiery ordeal, the Lord’s hand is in it all. With persevering hope and a sure faith, she faces each harrowed step, relying on the strength of the Lord, seeing through to absolute hope, grounded in the promises of God, knowing healing and restoration will come, His mercy and grace given to those who tread this horrid place.
Two strangers’ lives are linked, two families prevail over adversity. Whilst juggling the demands of her job, her family and a bereaved parent, Helen discovers a revealing and shocking family secret. Ian, meanwhile, is struggling to overcome his illness. His obsession leads him to Helen and to a new realisation and the road to recovery. Overall, this novel is a tribute to the power of family to offer succour and support. It tells of generosity of friendship and selflessness, and the acts of kindness to strangers that can make a difference that will be life enhancing. Elizabeth Randall was a General Medical Practioner for thirty years in London and Scotland. In retirement she has taken up painting and has written haiku. This is her first novel. It draws upon both her professional and personal experiences.
The author shares a distinct and clearly perceptible message given to her by the Holy God at a window of her home. A message of hope for a time of fear and insecurity beget by the onslaught of Covid-19. Though the message not only for this unsettled season but for all times, knowing we shall gather hope from the Lord God who is with us always, never shall we fear. Entwined in the message that unfolds is a collection of reflective expressions instilling hope and security, for it is the Lord God who gives to us peace of mind.
Love, Alice is a sweet collection of poems penned by the author’s twin sister long years ago, hidden away for no one to see. Having discovered them more than a decade after her twin’s death, fully knowing what must be done; create a beautiful book as beautiful as the sister she always knew. A passionate child of God, penned from a heart in love with the Holy King. This is a celebration of a sister dearly loved.
The author shares her collection of love letters, penned from a passionate heart in love with God. Experiencing a life set on fire with love for God, every line conveys the rhapsodic love she lives each day. “Held down in a rhapsodic love, forever bound in a passionate blaze, never wanting to release this awesomeness I am found, in the hands of the living God!”
Marsden Hartley had a lifelong personal and aesthetic engagement with Maine, where he was born in 1877 and where he died at age sixty-six. As an important member of the artistic circle promoted by Alfred Stieglitz, Hartley began his career by painting the mountains of western Maine. He subsequently led a peripatetic life, traveling throughout Europe and North America and only occasionally visiting his native state. By midlife, however, his itinerant existence had taken an emotional toll, and he confided to Stieglitz that he wanted “so earnestly a ‘place’ to be.” Finally returning to the state in his later years, he transformed his identity from urbane sophisticate to “the painter from Maine.” But while Maine has played a clear and defining role in Hartley’s art, not until now has this relationship been studied with the breadth and richness it warrants. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} Marsden Hartley’s Maine is the first in-depth discussion of Hartley’s complex and shifting relationship to his native state. Illustrated with works from throughout the painter’s career, it provides a nuanced understanding of Hartley’s artistic range, from the exhilarating Post-Impressionist landscapes of his early years to the late, roughly rendered paintings of Maine and its people. The absorbing essays examine Hartley’s view of Maine as a place of light and darkness whose spirit imbued his art, which encompassed buoyant coastal views, mournful mountain vistas, and portraits of Mainers. An illustrated chronology provides an overview of Hartley’s life, juxtaposing major personal incidents with concurrent events in Maine’s history. For Hartley, who was strongly influenced by such artists as Paul Cézanne, Winslow Homer, and Albert Pinkham Ryder, Maine was an enduring source of inspiration, one powerfully intertwined with his past, his cultural milieu, and his desire to create a regional expression of American modernism.
Against the background of Socrates' insight that the unexamined life is not worth living, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old investigates the often overlooked inside dimensions of aging. Despite popular portrayals of mid- and later life as entailing inevitable decline, this book looks at aging as, potentially, a process of poiesis: a creative endeavor of fashioning meaning from the ever-accumulating texts - memories and reflections-that constitute our inner worlds. At its center is the conviction that although we are constantly reading our lives to some degree anyway, doing so in a mindful matter is critical to our development in the second half of life. Drawing on research in numerous disciplines affected by the so-called narrative turn - including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and the psychology of aging - authors Randall and McKim articulate a vision of aging that promises to accommodate such time-honored concepts as wisdom and spirituality: one that understands aging as a matter not merely of getting old but of consciously growing old.
A devout servant of God, the author shares a reflection of her life lived in accordance with the Holy God. Never-ending blessings and a life made abundant, experiencing it each day. Her love for God manifests a happy heart, a mind at peace—a joy-filled life. Contented assurance all is well, resting in the shadow of the Almighty God. Nurtured and cared for, tended by the Father who loves her so. The salvation of the Lord shines for all to see! “Yes indeed, I shall sit under the mimosa tree, with not a care at all!”
Eighteen women, including Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchú, Cherríe Moraga, Marjorie Agosin, Margaret Randall, Gloria Anzaldúa, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez, are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Women Writing Resistance highlights Latin American and Caribbean women writers who, with increasing urgency, are writing in the service of social justice and against the entrenched patriarchal, racist, and exploitative regimes that have ruled their countries. Many of the women in this collection have been thrust out into the Latino-Caribbean diaspora by violent forces that make differences in language and culture seem less significant than connections based on resistance to inequality and oppression. It is these connections that Women Writing Resistance highlights, presenting "conversations" on the potential of writing to confront injustice. This mixed-genre anthology, a resource for activists and readers of Latin American and Caribbean women's literature, demonstrates and enacts how women can collaborate across class, race and nationality, and illustrates the value of this solidarity in the ongoing struggles for human rights and social justice in the Americas. Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University, specializing in contemporary Caribbean, Latin American, and ethnic North American autobiographies by women. She teaches literature and gender studies courses at Simon's Rock College of Bard, and is also a faculty member at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Black Cat Weekly #28 features another interview by acquiring editor Darrell Schweitzer—this time with Larry Niven.. It originally appeared in Thrust, a review and critical essay magazine published by Doug Fratz in the 1970s. As Darrell has observed, these old interviews fall “somewhere between oral history and paleontology.” It’s always interesting to compare where at author was in his career almost 50 years ago to where he is today. For this issue’s mysteries, we have an original story by Bruce Arthurs, thanks to editor Michael Bracken. Barb Goffman has selected “The Chess Room” by Elizabeth Elwood. And we have a second classic novel from Mildred Davis. Plus, of course, a solve-it-yourself tale by Hal Charles (the writing team of Hal Sweet and Charlie Blythe)—no issue would be complete without one. Editor Cynthia Ward has selected “Miles to Go” by Linda D. Addison for this issue. Great stuff, especially if you like music. (Who doesn’t?) Leslie Perri’s “Under the Skin,” Randall Garrett’s “Stroke of Genius,” and Lester del Rey’s “Mine Host, Mine Adversary” round out the classic reprints. Great reading. Here’s the complete lineup: Non-Fiction: “Speaking with Larry Niven,” an interview by Darrell Schweitzer [interview] Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “The Return of Dodge Tombstone, Outlaw,” by Bruce Arthurs [short story] “A Secret Admirer,” by Hal Charles [solve-it-yourself mystery] “The Dark Place,” by Mildred Davis [novel] “The Chess Room,” by Elizabeth Elwood [short story] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “Milez To Go,” by Linda D. Addison [short story] “Under The Skin,” by Leslie Perri [short story] “Stroke Of Genius,” by Randall Garrett [short story] “Mine Host, Mine Adversary,” by Lester del Rey [short story]
An avid runner’s path, now divinely purposed, is where she meets the Lord to hear His messages. This book, the second in the series, Running the Road to Galilee, brings a closer, more intimate glimpse into the life of this runner. She shares a life once lived filled with fear and worry, afflictions of PTSD, panic attacks, depression, poor health and diet, though now made full with glorious abundance through her unwavering faith in God, found serving the Lord with jubilant joy and never-ending zeal as she runs her road to Galilee. The author’s use of parallelism and repetition is reminiscent of ancient Hebrew poetry bringing forth a book like no other with message-driven verse, replete with emotional power and passionate enthusiasm, penned with soulstirring words for modern life that speaks to all readers. Messages that boldly convey man’s continual disobedience, disrespect, and denial of God, the absence of God in school, mankind’s ignorant and selfish ways, and the blatant disregard of the importance of living a God-filled life, as she delivers a clear-cut message for all mankind to love the Lord with an utmost earnest devotion, fully yielding to His law without reserve, thus receiving an abundant life nothing short of extraordinary, a life overflowing with nothing less than the phenomenal, unimaginable, sensational love of the Almighty God.
“With too much joy to stand still,” this avid runner’s path is now the place she has been called to do the Lord’s work. “I write Your words with jubilant joy, overflowing with eager enthusiasm, Your Spirit covers each word, bringing forth my steadfast heart, found always in You.” Presenting the last book of the series, Running the Road to Galilee, the author once again brings words impassioned, stirred with a “never-ending zeal.” Thoughts profound and messages memorable, enthusiastic expressions for modern age, with words knowledgeable and wisdom enlightened, as the author’s energetic, rhapsodic devotion to God is set ablaze on each page. The author reflects of a life shining in the abundant glory of God, “living out loud with the Lord’s great joy.” With a likable voice, the author’s strong faith and passion resonates soundly with absolute sincerity and depth of feeling as she affirms the importance of choosing the right road and living a life worthy of the Lord, pursuing His way always. “The joy of the Lord exudes my every fiber, found running with passion burning, praise fixed always on these lips of mine, as I run free, no longer bound to the ways of the world.”
It is no wonder the ancient city of St. Augustine is steeped in secrets. St. Johns, the oldest continuously occupied county in America celebrated its 450th birthday on September 4, 2015. More like a European enclave than an urban landscape, it is a place of cannon fire, street parties, historical reenactments, concerts, and more. From admiring replicas of fine art at Ripley’s Believe or Not, to hunting haunts in restaurants and museums, to eating ice cream from a recipe originated by World War II bombardiers, St. Augustine has it all from beaches, gourmet dining, festivals, and attractions. A young and vibrant business community coexists with a rich history from the Spanish conquistadors, the British aristocracy, antebellum Americans, and Civil Rights leaders. There are stories behind the forts, old Spanish houses, a slave market, civil rights landmarks, museums, hotels, art galleries, a college that was once a luxury hotel, and more. These places all have secrets to tell and, since it’s St. Augustine, one or two ghost stories as well. Once you come to St. Augustine, you keep coming back. St. Augustine is one place, despite its status as the oldest city, whose secrets never get old.
Preparing satisfying, family-pleasing dinners doesnt have to take you all day. Here is a months worth of complete, mom-approved meals, each one requiring just 30 minutes flat from appetizer to dessert. Author Elizabeth Randall harnesses her experience as a process engineer and mother-of-five to present one of the most efficient cookbooks ever devised. Were not talking wimpy affairs here - Moms Meal Collection offers scrumptious menus like: ?Çó Tuscan pasta with sliced tomato salad and peach macaroon cups;?Çó Bleu-cheese-crusted beef stew with apple dumplings a la mode; ?Çó Spicy redfish with pineapple slaw and gumbo rice; ?Çó Even elegant holiday meals in just 30 minutes! Mix and match menu items for thousands of delicious dinner combos! Youll also get: ?Çó Complete grocery lists for easy and efficient shopping;?Çó A basic introduction to cooking terms and techniques;?Çó A weekly meal planner to keep the menu fresh;?Çó Extra tips to shave minutes off prep time in all you do!Dont let your busy lifestyle stop you from making fabulous, wholesome meals for the whole family. Randall has been a guiding force to help those individuals less fortunate, $1 from the sale of each of these cookbooks will be given to the Episcopal Church to be used for the Stop Hunger Now program. Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. The organization is driven by a vision to end world hunger in our lifetime and a mission to provide food and life-saving aid to the worlds most destitute and hungry in the most sustainable, efficient, and effective mannerSo go ahead eat up with Moms Meal Collection!
What is sin? Anything that goes against the Word of God. In the end, sin will destroy us all. Yet through the Lord God, we have a way out, an end to eternal punishment and the beginning of life eternal. Our salvation is sure, promised and true. We desire to live as Christ, righteous and pure. Though it is our heart’s endeavor to live God’s way, our flesh stumbles and falls each day. The battle of sin surely inevitable, a constant in the daily life we live.
Carrie was a child who spun on the playground, arms outstretched grasping for the wind, eyes wide to the clouds, ignoring the dizziness. These days she removes her polyester suit and drops it crumpled onto her bedroom carpet each night. She lays awake beneath gritty sheets she always plans to wash tomorrow. Regretting the disorder and ruin that close in on her troubled 3 am mind. Someday she will not have to choose which bills to pay each month, spend more money on vodka than food, or allow valiant aspirations to waste away like an anorexic teenager. Once she danced on shining stages nationwide. She hung her shirts neatly on cedar hangers. Once she wrote poetry and cleared her weary mind. She thought it could always be so. Her broken, scattered words of frustration offer a perspective of banal reality. Mark her words and hold hands. Maybe the world will revolve around you both, maybe the world will end, maybe nothing will change. She forces herself to continue and something lies inky on the page. Maybe not what she intended, maybe no inspiration, but forced poetry creates truth unwittingly. Everything is so much more frighteningly poetic in the moonlight or by pen. Somehow key strokes capture nothing but words. But at least she's not writing on a napkin. She moves to douche her brain of yesterday's emotional excretion and every day's before. Rattles her pen across paper, scribbles her theoried therapy only to discover accidental truths, patterns. But she's there writing under the light of plasticized lampshades. You just can't take them too seriously: her poems. And she never really forgets you, the tickle in the back of her throat. When darkness falls on the moment of truth, she measures her judgment. Written as if all were aloof, she pushes you out of her mind with words. What she has written shears her free.
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