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The Wrights of Vermont: Searching for My Father's Family

By: George T. Wright

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The Wrights of Vermont: Searching for My Father's Family

By: George T. Wright

When my sister and brother and I were growing up on Staten Island, Dad told us very little about his Vermont boyhood, and nothing at all about his father. We respected his silence. We figured he had good reason for it. But long after Dad's death, my sister and I started to look more closely at our family history. Soon we were connected to a world of New England striving and struggle that we came to see as part of our own Vermont heritage. So this is the story of Dad and his mother and brother, and his unreliable father, and his father's five sisters, whom we'd known nothing about before we began our research. It pays tribute to an everyday heroine, Dad's mother, who took her sons to Staten Island to begin a new life when her marriage failed. It also traces earlier Wrights (and forebears with other surnames, like Little, Bailey, Hadley, Hathaway, Shattuck, Blanchard, and Burt) in towns all over Vermont (and New Hampshire and Massachusetts), some of them with their own compelling stories -- farmers, soldiers, railroad men, miners, housewives, and keepers of inns and hotels. These are my Wrights of Vermont.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1604949457

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9781604949452

Hearing the Measures

Shakespearean and Other Inflections

By: George Thaddeus Wright

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Hearing the Measures

Shakespearean and Other Inflections

By: George Thaddeus Wright

An eminent scholar's guide to hearing poets' work When we listen to the words of a poet in the theater, or read them silently on the page, what is it that we hear? How do such crafty writers as Shakespeare or Donne, Wyatt or Yeats, Wordsworth or Lowell arrange their rhythms to make their poetry more expressive? A gathering of perceptive essays written over twenty-five years, this book by a distinguished scholar and poet helps us hear the measures poets use to conjure up strangeness, urgency, distance, surprise, the immediacy of speech, or the sounding of silence.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299171949

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9780299171940

Starting from Staten Island: Memories of Peace and War in the 1930s and 1940s

By: George T. Wright

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Starting from Staten Island: Memories of Peace and War in the 1930s and 1940s

By: George T. Wright

My earlier book, The Wrights of Vermont (Wheatmark, 2013), reported the search I began about ten years ago for my father's Vermont forebears. I had learned a lot, especially about my grandmother's heroic efforts to save her shaky marriage. Eventually she left Vermont to begin a new life on Staten Island for herself and her two sons, Dad and Uncle Ray. This book shows Dad and Mother starting their family on Staten Island and describes our home, our neighborhood, the boarding house where we sometimes dined, the schools we attended, the songs we sang, how we learned to think about money, work, fun, guilt, and politics, and our experience, especially mine, of illness, solitude, and books. Later chapters show our horizons expanding. They tell where we went on outings and how we spent our summers (ours at a riverside cottage near the New Jersey coast, and mine at an unusual summer camp in upstate New York), and they sketch the different world we found when we moved to Manhattan in 1941. I entered Columbia then and began to discover new realms of literature, philosophy, and music. Then at eighteen, with other young men of that time, I was swept up into military service in the U.S. Army and war in France and Germany.

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244

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1627871365

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9781627871365

The Parish Registers of St. Anthonlin, Budge Row , London, containing the Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials from 1538 to 1754; and of St. John Baptist on Wallbrook, London, containing the Baptisms and Burials from 1682 to 1754

Vol. VIII

By: Joseph Lemuel Chester,George John Armytage

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The Parish Registers of St. Anthonlin, Budge Row , London, containing the Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials from 1538 to 1754; and of St. John Baptist on Wallbrook, London, containing the Baptisms and Burials from 1682 to 1754

Vol. VIII

By: Joseph Lemuel Chester,George John Armytage

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385339340

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9783385339347

Prison Journal

The High Court Frees an Innocent Man

By: George Pell

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The High Court Frees an Innocent Man

By: George Pell

Innocent! That final verdict came after George Cardinal Pell endured a gruelling four years of accusations, investigations, trials, public humiliations, and more than a year of imprisonment after being convicted by an Australian court of a crime he did not commit. Led off to jail in handcuffs, following his sentencing on March 13, 2019, the 78-year-old Australian prelate began what was meant to be six years in jail for "historical sexual assault offenses". Cardinal Pell endured more than thirteen months in solitary confinement, before the Australian High Court voted 7-0 to overturn his original convictions. His victory over injustice was not just personal, but one for the entire Catholic Church. Bearing no ill will toward his accusers, judges, prison workers, journalists, and those harbouring and expressing hatred for him, the cardinal used his time in prison as a kind of "extended retreat". He eloquently filled notebook pages with his spiritual insights, prison experiences, and personal reflections on current events both inside and outside the Church, as well as moving prayers. In this third and final volume, Cardinal Pell''s conviction is overturned by Australia''s High Court, and he is released from prison. As his appeal draws near, he grows in confidence that his case is strong and that his vindication is important not only for his own sake and the Church''s sake, but also for the sake of Australia''s legal system. While continuing his daily readings and devotions, and receiving hundreds of letters with offers of prayers and sacrifices on his behalf, the cardinal ponders the meaning of suffering in the life of the Christian, and he determines to accept with equanimity whatever outcome lies ahead.

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Ignatius Press

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1642291447

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9781642291445

Dramatic Works of Goethe. Comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Walter Scott,Henry George Bohn,Anna Swanwick

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Dramatic Works of Goethe. Comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Walter Scott,Henry George Bohn,Anna Swanwick

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385379350

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Book's by George Thaddeus Wright

The Wrights of Vermont: Searching for My Father's Family

The Wrights of Vermont: Searching for My Father's Family

Hearing the Measures

Hearing the Measures

Starting from Staten Island: Memories of Peace and War in the 1930s and 1940s

Starting from Staten Island: Memories of Peace and War in the 1930s and 1940s

The Parish Registers of St. Anthonlin, Budge Row , London, containing the Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials from 1538 to 1754; and of St. John Baptist on Wallbrook, London, containing the Baptisms and Burials from 1682 to 1754

The Parish Registers of St. Anthonlin, Budge Row , London, containing the Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials from 1538 to 1754; and of St. John Baptist on Wallbrook, London, containing the Baptisms and Burials from 1682 to 1754

Prison Journal

Prison Journal

Dramatic Works of Goethe. Comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont

Dramatic Works of Goethe. Comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont

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