Located in northwestern Louisiana, DeSoto Parish exemplifies the evolution of the Southern frontier. The parish was an early Louisiana meeting ground of Frenchmen from Natchitoches, who settled along Bayou Pierre and traded with the native Caddo Indians. In the 1840s, subsistence agriculture, cattle, and moderate trade were joined by the agriculture of the cotton kingdom with its flood of new settlers, who built small farms and sizable plantations. In the late 19th century, the economy diversified as the whistle of the railroad echoed against the roar of the lumber mills. Inhabiting new station-stop towns, DeSoto Parish residents built schools, filled churches, and settled their disputes in a fine new courthouse in the parish seat of Mansfield. Comings and goings, frozen by the flash of a camera, are presented in Images of America: DeSoto Parish.
This book presents family life on a farm in the early 20th century of rural Carmel, Louisiana, as well as the beginning of oil exploration and drilling in the area. The story begins with tales of school days in a one-room schoolhouse. The chief character is a girl with dreams of becoming a school teacher. Her dreams collapse when she is unable to go into town for high school. In her disappointment she walks into the pine woods seeking solace. She stops at the Little Rock Chapel in the woods where she prays for God's help in her life. Here she meets a sympathetic stranger. As they visit, she discovers this new friend is actually a ghost the spirit of a great-great grandmother. Awakened from her grave by an oil company drilling in the family cemetery, she sought this young grandchild, aware she needed encouragement. She tells Lenora so much, the girls swears she's had a history lesson. Love and faith provide strength for life, even with hardships. There are tremendous challenges to the country girl in this new life. She holds precious the memories of her home in the pine hills, and her beloved family including the spirit of one she'd never really known in life. Challenge after challenge arises, but with faith in God and stamina learned on the farm, Lenora's new transient family never gives up.
Located in northwestern Louisiana, DeSoto Parish exemplifies the evolution of the Southern frontier. The parish was an early Louisiana meeting ground of Frenchmen from Natchitoches, who settled along Bayou Pierre and traded with the native Caddo Indians. In the 1840s, subsistence agriculture, cattle, and moderate trade were joined by the agriculture of the cotton kingdom with its flood of new settlers, who built small farms and sizable plantations. In the late 19th century, the economy diversified as the whistle of the railroad echoed against the roar of the lumber mills. Inhabiting new station-stop towns, DeSoto Parish residents built schools, filled churches, and settled their disputes in a fine new courthouse in the parish seat of Mansfield. Comings and goings, frozen by the flash of a camera, are presented in Images of America: DeSoto Parish.
I wrote many historical articles before and during the American Bicentennial of 1976. I earned my BA degree from Louisiana State University in Shreveport in 1987, with two majors, Communications and History. After graduation I began photo journalism. I met John Blanchard in Mansfield. He was the newspaper editor and publisher who published my first historical articles. When he published the Bicentennial Edition of The Mansfield Enterprise, he asked me to co-edit that special edition. I greatly enjoyed that work. I have been published in Louisiana Life, Louisiana Retailer, Southwestern, Western Treasures, Grit, Shreveport Journal, The Shreveport Times, and Southern Hardware. While finishing my degree in a public relations class I was chosen to educate the public on Cystic Fibrosis. This was part of a fund drive for Hillman House, a lodging for families of Cystic Fibrosis patients undergoing treatment at Shreveport hospitals. I chose a Cystic Fibrosis Poster Child for that campaign, and photographed the child with his sister at Hillman House door. I interviewed Dr. Bettina Hillman, a nationally recognized expert in CF treatment. The campaign was a success, and Hillman House is now open and functioning.
This book takes actual historical facts and builds real life around the events. The chief protagonist is Marie des Neiges de St. Denis, youngest daughter of Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, native of Quebec who worked with native inhabitants from Mobile to Natchitoches, first permanent settlement in the Louisiana Province. He established a trade route deep into Texas and won the respect of the Spanish authorities, although they feared his friendship with Indian tribes. My story begins with the burial of that great statesman, St. Denis. His youngest daughter is often viewed as a woman too outspoken for her time, a women's libber of the 1700's. But to know her whole story is to love and respect her. She faced hardships beyond those of the average pioneer woman. Her romance with the Spanish cavalry officer from nearby Los Adayes, capital of Spanish New Spain at that time, would seem doomed. As Louisiana passed from French to Spanish, then back to French, and finally turned into an American province in 1803, the DeSoto family and their offspring carved out a life of faith and hard work, in spite of roadblocks constantly arising in their lives.
Women leaders of the twentieth and twenty first centuries have powerfully influenced the course of major political events and have spearheaded social change on an international scales. Some women were elected to public office and others were appointed to key positions in government. Some were leaders who served in the private sector. All were products of their times and made an indelible mark on those times. Book jacket.
Life with Laura'....well, what can I say? Who hasn't had a lively, mischievous daughter? But mine was hell-bent from day one to stamp her mark and wreak havoc on our world wherever she went. She constantly embarrassed us in public with her extrovert behaviour playing to the masses and wrecked shops causing chaos and leaving turmoil in her wake. Everyone said she could make a pig laugh with her antics. This compelling biography is large in content, has 35 captivating 'caught in action' photos and is based on my diaries, pictures and videos. It is driven by my love and fuelled by humour, my own emotions and by interactions with family and friends, and depicts two parents trying desperately to cope. 'Life with Laura' - enjoy the ride! 'We enter Superdrug and I pause momentarily in a small bay by the door to check my list. Big mistake! Laura leans forward from her buggy and pulls on a three-sided, picture-frame style moulding on the wall that displays an advertisement. Oh my, she is demolishing it... and I am on the wrong side to stop her. It is about 3' long with two 18" side struts. She struggles to hold the frame up above her head then bangs one side onto the floor...CRASH!! I am rooted to the spot. All goes deathly quiet and in a loud and clear voice of authority Laura turns round and tells everyone. "It's broken to pieces!" Horrified I take the rest off her and intend to place the two remaining joined pieces on the floor. No such luck...one crashes down...oops! The manager appears scowling and I limply hand him the last bit. "Sorry it's not childproof" is all I can say in her defence. Laura's captive audience is spell-bound. I hear some giggling..........
In 1993 Liz Tilberis had it all. Having risen to the editorship of British Vogue, she had been hired as editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar, the Bible of US fashion. Moving to America with her husband and two small children she presided over the dazzling relaunch of the magazine, instantly becoming one of the most prominent figures in international media and fashion circles. Then, all at once, the rug was pulled out from under her feet. On the eve of her Christmas party, where the guests included the great and the good from Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, to Randolph Hearst and Barbara Walters, Tilberis was diagnosed with third-stage ovarian cancer. This is her extraordinary account of her career in high fashion and her remarkable battle with cancer, told with immense charm, honesty and wit.
Abomination has returned. The Goddess must strike back before all is lost — but are her chosen ready? Jamirh: A thousand years ago, the Avari Hero Ebryn Stormlight saved the world from falling to Abomination, making a bargain with the goddess of death in the process. Ebryn reborn, Jamirh wants very little to do with the bargain his predecessor made with Hades. Still, how much of the choice is his own, when the bionic Abominations of the Empire have attacked him directly in the heart of Romanii? He took up the Crystal Light Blade, and has been learning how to utilize his inherent magic as a Master of Blades, but will it be enough? Or is it too little, too late? Takeshi: Haunted by the ghosts of Hel and Hotaru, the two women he failed to save, Takeshi is fleeing north, trying to accomplish the last thing Hel told him to do - find Ander. It's all he has left to him, since returning to Ni Fon is no longer an option. But with the threat of more debilitating migraines and the realization that something is wrong with him and his magic, even the safety of Tarvishte may not be enough. Ander: The Abomination has attacked Romanii in its capital city. The Eighth High Priest of the goddess Hades, Ander finds himself with more questions than answers - Will they attack again? How did they reach Tarvishte in the first place? How has the Empire managed to combine tech and magic? Why are they being constructed from Avari? He is also responsible for Takeshi as the potential priest makes his way north. They know Abomination has something to do with Takeshi's condition - but what?
This is my innocent and humorous recollection of the disasters and successes I have encountered in the male dominated sport of Drag Racing, when it was in it's infancy, back in the 1970's in the UK. I became only the second woman in the UK to race a Top Fuel dragster. How I survived a 200mph crash and came back to win the European Championship two years in a row. Yes, I beat the men at their own game!
Presents a biographical dictionary profiling important Native American women, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.
From its raw beginnings on Southern dirt tracks, NASCAR smacked of a slightly depraved spectacle, as if nothing but trouble could come from the unbridled locomotion of a V8 engine. By the time NASCAR roared into the twenty-first century, it had grown into a billion-dollar sports and marketing colossus, its races attended by hundreds of thousands of fans on any given weekend from mid-February through mid-November, watched on television by the second-largest viewing audience in sports, and bankrolled by the marketing largesse of the Fortune 500’s elite. One Helluva Ride, a full-throttle account of the rise and reign of NASCAR nation, is award-winning motorsports reporter Liz Clarke’s chronicle of how stock car racing exploded from regional obsession to national phenomenon. In covering the sport for more than fifteen years, Clarke has developed a strong rapport with NASCAR’s drivers, team owners, and hard-core fans. Through her reporting and analysis, we get to know the public and private sides of NASCAR’s most iconic figures, including seven-time champion Richard Petty, who set the standard for treating fans with respect, and the late Dale Earnhardt, whose brazen, bullying tactics wreaked havoc on the track, but whose heart was as big as Daytona’s infield. The sports world stopped in its tracks the day Earnhardt was killed on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. Some feared that NASCAR’s soul would die with him. But it has raced on, steered by visionary promoters, the all-controlling France family (who founded the sport), and, above all, the next generation of drivers to stir fans’ passions: Dale Earnhardt, Jr., son of the NASCAR legend and now, like his father before him, the circuit’s most popular driver; Jeff Gordon, the beloved but oft-maligned outsider, bred from the cradle to be NASCAR’s winningest modern champion; and Kasey Kahne, a reluctant heartthrob whose confidence derives entirely from an accelerator pedal. Clarke also brings us inside NASCAR’s most triumphant and tragic dynasties: the Pettys, the Earnhardts, and the Allisons–and reveals how faith, family, and a deep-seated love of their sport helps them cope with grief and loss. Clarke shows NASCAR to be at a crossroads. In pursuit of a broader audience, NASCAR has severed its sponsorship ties to Big Tobacco, abandoned racetracks in small markets in favor of speedways near glitzy major cities, and welcomed Japan’s Toyota into a sport traditionally restricted to American-made sedans. As NASCAR races toward mass appeal, some suggest it is leaving its roots behind. To others, it is boldly extending its reach from the Southern workingman to every man, woman, and child in the world. Whether you’re one of the die-hard NASCAR faithful or just a casual follower, nobody brings you closer to the sport and business of big-time stock car racing than Liz Clarke. This book, like the phenomenon it profiles, really is One Helluva Ride.
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