During Wind and Rain moves from the land's acquisition in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the 1927 Flood, the Great Depression, and the drought of 1930 to the modern considerations of mechanization, fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. The transformation of dense swamp and forest to today's commercial agriculture is the story of two hundred acres worked by people sowing their fate with sweat, ingenuity, and luck."--Jacket.
In 2005 Margaret Jones Bolsterli learned that her great-great-grandfather was a free mulatto named Jordan Chavis, who owned an antebellum plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The news was a shock; Bolsterli had heard about the plantation in family stories told during her Arkansas Delta childhood, but Chavis’s name and race had never been mentioned. With further exploration Bolsterli found that when Chavis’s children crossed the Mississippi River between 1859 and 1875 for exile in Arkansas, they passed into the white world, leaving the family’s racial history completely behind. Kaleidoscope is the story of this discovery, and it is the story, too, of the rise and fall of the Chavis fortunes in Mississippi, from the family’s first appearance on a frontier farm in 1829 to ownership of over a thousand acres and the slaves to work them by 1860. Bolsterli learns that in the 1850s, when all free colored people were ordered to leave Mississippi or be enslaved, Jordan Chavis’s white neighbors successfully petitioned the legislature to allow him to remain, unmolested, even as three of his sons and a daughter moved to Arkansas and Illinois. She learns about the agility with which the old man balanced on a tightrope over chaos to survive the war and then take advantage of the opportunities of newly awarded citizenship during Reconstruction. The story ends with the family’s loss of everything in the 1870s, after one of the exiled sons returns to Mississippi to serve in the Reconstruction legislature and a grandson attempts unsuccessfully to retain possession of the land. In Kaleidoscope, long-silenced truths are revealed, inviting questions about how attitudes toward race might have been different in the family and in America if the truth about this situation and thousands of others like it could have been told before.
Where’s Catherine? Catherine has gone missing, a year after confessing to having an affair. Her husband, a marriage and family therapist, hides her infidelity from the police to protect her reputation—and to shelter his pride. As the secrets begin to pile up, Mr. Catherine, the unnamed husband of the missing woman, is plunged into a world of underground dealings, kidnappers, ex-lovers and drug running in Little Rock, Arkansas, all while grappling with his part in the highs and lows of the life they led together. With each passing day, a sleepless Mr. Catherine grows more frantic, drinking and popping pills, which stir up painful visions and remembrances that hold a mirror up to the narrator as he comes to terms with his own emotional betrayals. Mr. Catherine is a fast-paced domestic noir that explores the dangerous secrets between a husband and a wife, as well as a deeper meditation on marriage, connection and honesty.
In her perceptive chronicle of everyday life on an Arkansas plantation, Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel sheds light on the plantation economy, medical practices, religion, slavery, and sex roles in the period from 1849 until Daniel's marriage in 1872. The work is a rich mixture of mundane details surrounded by momentous events, and Daniel's sure grasp of both provides enjoyment and enlightenment for any reader.
In this gracefully written memoir, Margaret Jones Bolsterli recounts her experiences as a lively, observant girl coming of age on an Arkansas cotton farm during the 1930s and 1940s. The Mississippi River's broad, flat floodplain provides the setting for her vivid strokes of memory and history each portraying key elements of the "southern sensibility." Bolsterli's themes include the southerner's strong sense of place, the penchant for stories rather than true dialog, a caste system based on formality and race, the underlying current of violence, and the repressive function of evangelical religion. She also examines manners, the patriarchal family structure, the "southern belle" concept, and the persistence of the memory of the Civil War. A fascinating chapter on food indicates how African and European customs are melded in southern cuisine to include chicken, pork, "cracklin' bread," gravy and biscuits, field peas, turnip greens, butter beans, devil's food cake, and dill pickles. Comparable to Shirley Abbott's Womenfolks, Born in the Delta is a valuable resource for those interested in southern history and culture, as well as readers who just enjoy a good story, well-told.
Can these dogs mend human hearts? Triplets Find a Mom by Annie Jones The only rules widowed single dad Sam Goodacre has for his triplet daughters are no dogs and no matchmaking. So when he and the girls meet the town’s pretty new schoolteacher, Polly Bennett, he knows he’s in trouble. A single lady with an adorable stray puppy? The triplets are in matchmaking heaven! Too bad it goes against all the rules! The Nanny’s New Family by Margaret Daley Dr. Ian McGregor means well, but the distracted single dad’s lost touch with his four kids. New nanny Annie Knight brings much-needed calm to the chaos, including finding a service dog that could be a real lifesaver. Soon Ian’s making Annie’s heart respond in ways it hasn’t for years. But her cheery demeanor hides a heart-wrenching secret…
More than thirty-five years after her tragic death in a plane crash at age thirty, Patsy Cline (1932–1963)remains one of the greatest voices of this century. Her soulful torch-song ballads—“Walkin' After Midnight,” “I Fall to Pieces,” “Crazy,” and “Sweet Dreams”—bought her worldwide fame as both a country and pop star, while her life and career were immortalized in the 1985 film, Sweet Dreams. InPatsy, Margaret Jones chronicles the life of Patsy Cline (nee Virginia Hensley) from her impoverished childhood and abuse by her father, through the struggle for her success and her exploitation by record producers to her phenomenal but short-lived recording career. The book is based on extensive interviews with country music's greatest—Loretta Lynn, June Carter, Dottie West, Barbara Mandrell, Faron Young, Roy Clark, Jimmy Dean, Johnny Western, Tompall Glaser, songwriters Harlan Howard and Donn Hecht, and record men Owen Bradley and Don Pierce. The result is the first fully drawn portrait of this crossover superstar, as well as a vivid picture of the ever-expanding country music world. Hard-living and hard-loving, bawdy and ballsy, Patsy Cline surmounted unimaginable odds in a male-dominated industry to become the most popular female country singer in recording history.
The Masses was the most dynamic and influential left-wing magazine of the early twentieth century, a touchstone for understanding radical thought and social movements in the United States during that era. As a magazine that supported feminist issues, it played a crucial role in shaping public discourse about women's concerns. Women editors, fiction writers, poets, and activists like Mary Heaton Vorse, Louise Bryant, Adriana Spadoni, Elsie Clews Parsons, Inez Haynes Gillmore, and Helen Hull contributed as significantly to the magazine as better-known male figures. In this major revisionist work, Margaret C. Jones calls for reexamination of the relevance of Masses feminism to that of the 1990s. She explores women contributors' perspectives on crucial issues: patriarchy, birth control, the labor movement, woman suffrage, pacifism, and ethnicity. The book includes numerous examples of the writings and visual art of Masses women and a series of biographical/bibliographical sketches designed to aid other researchers.
SUMMER ON THE SUN-UP (Illustrated Edition) The Ranch with the Quarter-Circle-Three-Bar Brand Theme: A young American family works together to save their ranch and to help fight World War II on the home front. Middle Grades Ages: 8-12 Juvenile Historical Fiction Summer on the Sun-Up is the story of a family struggling to fight foreclosure on their cattle ranch and to do their part for the country at war. A young Jane Eaton tells of the family's adventures of that summer of 1943 - a round up, a cattle auction, and a strange accident at The Dalles Ferry. She tells of the family's sorrowful good-bye to Uncle Robbie as he goes off to war. She tells of 14-year-old cousin Scott who plays practical jokes, reads minds, and learns to drive the wheat truck. Here are strong men - optimistic Dad, grumpy Grandpa, the fiery Red Evans baling hay, and brave "Pops" sailing in the Pacific with the navy. Here is Mother who wanted to be a librarian, but now keeps the ranch books, races to smooth the rocky path for everyone else, and grows a Victory Garden. Here is Ann, high-spirited 12-year-old sister and sidekick. Here is five-year-old Ellie with a voice that flits like a moth, and who names the new bull. Youngest is three-year-old Tom, who gathers up scrap metal for the war and chases cows with his stick. Summer on the Sun-Up is a story set in Klickitat County in the State of Washington. It follows Jane as she promises to work even harder to help save the ranch. She does not give up. Like the country, Jane hangs on and survives.
The Americans have engineered a coup in Khamla, north of Thailand. Prince Soumidath has been deposed. He can return only under Thai protection. Civil war rages. Against this background of bedlam, Margaret Jones in The Smiling Buddha weaves parallel stories narrated by Gilly Herbert, the Australian wife of English academic David. Gilly's own experiences, events in Khamla and the story of Peter Casement, a mysterious American and Gilly's lover who has emerged as eminence grise to Prince Soumidath, merge in a dramatic, vivid evocation of the horrors of war and the abuses of power. Margaret Jones has worked as a foreign correspondent for Australian newspapers in Europe, North America and Asia. She opened a bureau for the Sydney Morning Herald in Beijing after the Whitlam Government established diplomatic relations in 1972, and has travelled extensively in the region. A former Foreign Editor and later Literary Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, she is the author of The Confucius Enigma and Thatcher's Kingdom, a study of British politics.
In Up to Our Necks In It, forty three poets present their visions of the twenty-first century - sharply observed glimpses of The Way We Live Now.Many of the contributors have won awards for their verse. A few are published here for the first time.Here are poems about the rat race - along with love lyrics, poems about the media, about bus shelters and football, obesity and washing machines - about the ladies' room and finding God by the M32. By turns playful and angry, hopeful, accusing, resigned, sardonic and joyous, the insights come in diverse packages, from rhyming couplets and tightly patterned sestina form, to the free-est of free verse.Expect the unexpected.
In 1943 the Eaton family, from the parents to the four children, aged 12-3, struggle to save the farm from foreclosure and to support the war effort. Ten year old Jane tells the story.
This book will provide scriptures from the Bible that reference hope while coupling it with pictures of nature that makes one aware that God truly does exist. Without hope, one is empty. Many souls are lost and are searching for reasons to exist. Souls without hope turn to alcohol or drugs to fill the inner sadness. Alcohol and drugs only provide a temporary relief and is fruitless. Hope can not be found in another person or an object. People and objects can not make one whole. Hope can be found only in the Lord for only He can satisfy all your needs and desires. If one looks to the Lord, hope will be found and it will provide everlasting and overflowing peace.
This 1913 cookbook describes the methods for making and using fireless cookers and insulated boxes, as well as providing tested recipes--some original and some adapted from such famous works as Miss Farmer's "Boston Cooking School Cook Book," Mrs. Lincon's "Boston Cook Book," and Miss Ronald's "Century Cook Book.
Put on your boots, bring out your sled.Let's fetch our Christmas tree, Dad said. We'll have it trimmed by first owl's lightBefore the blizzard strikes tonight. Along with Dad, Mother, and Purr-dy Cat, the children follow a winding path through the snowy wood. They walk past stonewalls and fallen logs. Uphill and downhill they hunt for that special tree as the wind blows the blue out of billowing clouds in a wintry sky. When the children spot the proud spruce, they know it is the tree for them. Moose tracks circleits trunk. A black-capped chickadee flits from its branches. A snowshoe hare bounds from its shadow to the edge of the glen. Purr-dy Cat sharpens his claws on the tree's soft bark. Using a bow saw, the little loggers fell the tree. They load their prize onto the sled and head home. The sky darkens, and soon the laughing moon replaces the sun. They follow their own tracks going back, but the path seems different in moonlight. Different, too, are the spicy perfumes of the wood, now mixing with colder air—pungent pine, fir balsam, birch, and muskiness from a foxes' lair. Late that night, after the children help trim the tree and after they set up the holy crèche scene of the first Christmas in Bethlehem, they gaze at their work. An unexpected surprise brings added reward. It is as if the fragrant incense of the king's gift of that first Christmas is wafting across continents and centuries— . . . the gift of frankincense,Precious and sweet with scent intense, Like that they breathed there where they stood—Wild perfumes from a winter wood.
The themes of this memoir cover the autobiography of an African American woman's life born in the south during 1930's. It talks about issues of historical post slavery and focuses on transformational self-help and the healing of childhood wounds. It is a memoir, a spiritual book about a difficult mother relationship and also descirbes the author's journey to secure meaningful employment during the era in which she was born. When her parents became sharecroppers they all worked hard and sacrificed to save money to buy their own farm. However school became secondary to working on the farm. Following graduation from high school at the age of sixteen and many futile attempts to find work, Margaret decided to leave Virginia and migrated to New York and worked briefly as a domestic sleep in maid. After twenty years, her marriage ended in divorce. Left with two teenaged sons, she finished bringing them up to respect themselves and others, but to never be afraid to speak for themselves. Through out Margaret's life she had deep thoughts about really knowing who she was. she wanted to know more about her people, for something within her told her that the history of her people didn't begin with slavery, and that African Americans were more than slaves. Margaret studied African history and traveled to Senegal West Africa and visited the slave castles.Although troubled by what she saw there, this visit gave her a real connection to her African ancestors.Another turning point occurred when she found herself remarried and moving to the Chicago area. Margaret took courses at the Johnnie Colemon Institute in Chicago in their “Better Living” program and was licensed to teach their metaphysical principles. The Intensive Program from which Margaret graduated required six years of study and passing both written and oral testing. She learned that healing your wounded child is of uppermost importance to all of God's children, because the gateway to freedom opens from the inside out. Many of us blame and hold accountable forces from the outside, although a contributing factor, it is not the answer that frees us from bondage.
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