The Chattahoochee is a prototypical American river-from its headwaters in the Blue Ridge Mountains to where it flows into Apalachicola Bay, one of the most productive estuaries in North America. This entertaining, fact-filled guide covers the Chattahoochee's entire 500 mile course and 8,000 square mile watershed. The guide divides the river into ten sections, each of which includes a brief natural history and information on: camping, hiking, fishing, boating, and other recreational pursuits bodies of water that feed into the river cities and towns with river frontage manmade structures such as bridges, dams, and historic ruins environmental threats and preservation efforts Entertaining sidebars throughout highlight the people, history, culture, wildlife, and geography of the entire river valley. Understand the "Hooch," say those dedicated to its conservation, and you will know more about all of our country's waterways. This guide is the place to begin.
Money is a young kingpin controlling the drug trade in New York City. He's rich, ruthless and a self-made millionaire. Murder is the best high school basketball player in the country destined for the NBA. However, he refused to stop balling in the deadly streets of Wilmington, DE. Money and Murder meet at a family reunion in NYC, before walking away from the streets for good; they form an allegiance and take the game to another level, one...last...time.
Autumn presents a stunning array of colors in rural East Tennessee, and Discovering October Roads is the perfect traveler's companion for better enjoying those scenic views. In a compelling, anecdotal narrative, the book describes seven road trips through the region, discussing not only the leaf colors to be seen but also the geology, landscape, and cultural history to be found along each route. In their introduction, Harry Moore and Fred Brown offer an overview of the geologic history and topography of East Tennessee as well as an accessible explanation of the science behind the changing leaf colors. They also discuss a number of common trees and the autumn color associated with each. In the chapters that follow, the authors' descriptions of road trips are arranged according to three geographic areas: the Blue Ridge, the Valley and Ridge, and the Cumberland Plateau. Complementing the narrative is a wealth of illustrations, including maps, geologic line drawings, and photographs--many of which are reproduced in color. Discovering October Roads will prove an indispensable resource for anyone seeking a deeper appreciation of East Tennessee's fall finery. The Authors: Harry Moore is a geologist with the Tennessee Department of Transportation and the author of A Roadside Guide to the Geology of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and A Geologic Trip across Tennessee by Interstate 40. Fred Brown is a feature writer and columnist for the Knoxville News-Sentinel. He is the author, with Jeanne McDonald, of Handling Serpents: Three Families and Their Faith and Growing Up Southern: How the South Shapes Writers.
Whatsoever things are good and lovely and of a good report, think on, meditate on these things! With that premise in mind, Hope for a Hopeless Society was born. This work was birthed through great times of trial and tribulation and much prayer. This book is a one month journey for anyone who has ANY chemical dependancy challenges. It will encourage you to seek out a personal relationship with a Higher Authority than any other. An Authority that will allow deliverance through a portal called FAITH. And this is the victory, EVEN OUR FAITH!
A unique portrait of China is painted through letters sent from a son serving as a missionary for the Medthodist Episcopal Church, to his family in New York. Non fiction.
Here's the completely revised and updated edition of the Unofficial guide to the capital of the New South. Inside you'll find coverage of Civil War sites, CNN Center, skyline views, museums, amusement parks, Undergound Atlanta, and the best values in hotels and restaurants. Detailed maps make it easy to negotiate the city like a native.
During the first half of the 20th century railroads were the life-blood of the country. They carried passengers and commerce to every corner of the nation. In Kentucky, plans were made as early as 1891 for a railroad to link Morgan County's coal fields with the C&O Railroad at Morehead. In 1906 the Morehead & North Fork Railway linked with the C&O in Morehead and the town soon replaced Farmers as the commercial and industrial center of the region.
Fred Brown recounts his own boisterous childhood, and the earlier life of his parents, Syd and Mary. They met whilst both in service and, despite struggling with Syd's depression, raised a large family during the Second World War.
Coker Creek: Cross Roads to History", is a story about a pioneer community in East Tennessee. Author Fred Brown, an award winning journalist, has spent more than 4 years researching historical records, gathering stories & conducting oral interviews in the community nestled in the Unicoi Mountains in Monroe County, Tennessee. The book is the history of early goldmining, Cherokee Indians, & the founding of the Church of God in a mountain community settled by early pioneers. It is a unique story about a unique Community.
With Hit Me, Fred, sensational sideman Fred Wesley Jr. moves front and center to tell his life story. A legendary funk, soul, and jazz musician, Wesley is best known for his work in the late sixties and early seventies with James Brown and as the leader of Brown’s band, Fred Wesley and the JB’s. Having been the band’s music director, arranger, trombone player, and frequent composer, Wesley is one of the original architects of funk music. He describes what it was like working for the Godfather of Soul, revealing the struggle and sometimes stringent discipline behind Brown’s tight, raucous tunes. After leaving Brown and the JB’s, Wesley arranged the horn sections for Parliament, Funkadelic, and Bootsy’s Rubber Band, and led Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns. Adding his signature horn arrangements to the P-Funk mix, Wesley made funk music even funkier. Wesley’s distinctive sound reverberates through rap and hip-hop music today. In Hit Me, Fred, he recalls the many musicians whose influence he absorbed, beginning with his grandmother and father—both music teachers—and including mentors in his southern Alabama hometown and members of the Army band. In addition to the skills he developed working with James Brown, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, and the many talented musicians in their milieu, Wesley describes the evolution of his trombone playing through stints with the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, Hank Ballard, and Count Basie’s band. He also recounts his education in the music business, particularly through his work in Los Angeles recording sessions. Wesley is a virtuoso storyteller, whether he's describing the electric rush of performances when the whole band is in the groove, the difficulties of trying to make a living as a rhythm and blues musician, or the frustrations often felt by sidemen. Hit Me, Fred is Wesley’s story of music-making in all its grit and glory.
This unique novel tells the story of a solider of the First World War returning home to his fiancee, she desperate for marriage, he knowing the family they both wanted was no longer possible. He found a degree of consolation in his friendship with a boy whose initial interest was not so much in the former soldier as his hobbies - bee keeping, gardening and chickens. Slowly the boy realized there was something mysterious about his hero, so mysterious it took him some years to discover precisely what it was. You will find plenty to cheer you in this book, a developing innocent friendship, at times evoking a few tears, but above all evidence of simple goodness between the old and the young. The author was for twenty-five years a Salvation Army officer until 1946 when he wrote a book Secular Evangelism, and refused to allow it to be censored. The result was his dismissal. This is his twelfth book, and second novel. A family man, he has fifteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. His wife died a little more than a year ago after their sixty-eight years of marriage.
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