Helen Hill Norris grew up in Horse Cove, perched high in the Southern Appalachians outside Highlands, North Carolina. For a decade starting in 1958, she wrote a weekly column for the Highlander called "Looking Backward." Drawing on her childhood and the tales her elders would tell around the fireplace, Norris conjures a bygone frontier world of covered wagons, gold miners, traveling peddlers and headstrong shopkeepers. Witness a harrowing Civil War encounter with the notorious Kirk's Raiders. Come along as a six-mule wagon carries a Steinway grand piano across the treacherous Chattooga River. Watch two uncles go to extremes to settle an argument over whether moles have teeth. Evocative, richly detailed and often laugh-out-loud funny, these stories reveal Norris to be one of the finest unsung storytellers of the American South.
A riveting behind-the-scenes look at the Thomas Supreme Court nomination hearings, told by the first print journalist to break the story of Hill's allegations of sexual harassment. Based on extensive interiews and prodigious research, this definitive account of these history-making hearings presents far-reaching implications for the political landscape of our country.
In this collection of erotic stories the reader will find tales that will capture the imagination, warm the blood and stimulate the senses. Told from a variety of viewpoints, these stories illustrate the diverse nature of our species as regards the way in which we approach sex.
A beautiful woman is branded with a hot iron by masked men at midnight. Bands of citizen vigilantes are asked to hunt down and shoot union agitators in the lumber mills. Bootleggers hide moonshine stills deep in the old growth woods. An airplane dragging a burning cross crashes onto the fairgrounds during a KKK rally. Is this a Hollywood movie? No, this is Tillamook County, Oregon in the 1920s. What secrets does this seemingly tranquil stretch of coastal paradise hold? Many are surprised to learn that dark trends of fear and intolerance have swept through the area like the cyclical forest fires that have raged in the nearby mountains. And, like the forest fires, the causes are difficult to pinpoint, and the remedy and prevention even more elusive. Through close scrutiny of historical archives, period books and newspapers, personal interviews, and a rare trove of Tillamook Ku Klux Klan papers housed in the Special Collections Library at the University of Oregon, A Brief History of Fear and Intolerance in Tillamook County seeks to avert future fires by exposing the roots of hatred and racism as deeply and accurately as possible.
This is the second in the Forest Hills series, following the families whose lives are experiencing trials and look to God for an answer. Hope is all they have left and faith is the key that opens the door to possibilities.
These are the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara Shores growing up with their father, Arthur Shores, a prominent Civil Rights attorney, during the 60s in the Jim Crow south Birmingham district—a frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan. Between 1948 and 1963, some 50 unsolved Klan bombings happened in Smithfield where the Shores family lived, earning their neighborhood the nickname “Dynamite Hill.” Due to his work, Shores’ daughter, Barbara, barely survived a kidnapping attempt. Twice, in 1963, Klan members bombed their home, sending Theodora to the hospital with a brain concussion and killing Tasso, the family’s cocker spaniel. The family narrowly escaped a third bombing attempt on their home in the spring of 1965. The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill is an incredible story of a family’s unfair suffering, but also of the Shores’ overcoming. This family’s sacrificial commitment, courage, determination, and triumph inspire us today through this story and the selfless service, work, and lives of Helen Shores Lee and Barbara Sylvia Shores.
The residents of Forest Hills are sensing an eerie presence that fills hearts with fear and suspicion. Can Pastor Hayden and his congregation rid the town of this evil entity or will the community prepare for the loss of a powerful Christian? And how will the trust and faith be restored?
Death at Windward Hill, first published in 1931, is a ‘golden-age’ murder mystery by Helen Hultman, author of 7 mystery/detective titles in the 1930s–1950s. From the dustjacket: “Suddenly a life was snuffed out – Who was the perpetrator of this horrible murder? Who killed Miss Marrender, a sickly maiden old lady of wealth to whom the hand of death was beckoning? The nurse who reported the death as from natural causes and left suddenly? The heirs, some of whom were more favorably remembered? Or ...? We could go on, but to do so would reveal Miss Hultman’s intricate mystery plot. The absorbing manner in which this story is told, the clever drawing of the many characters, combine to make a thrilling, baffling story.”
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