Download or read book Alabama Boy written by Frank Orr and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the life story of a boy born of middle-class parents in a small Alabama town, who over time realizes his dreams and visions are driven by two objectives--serving God and practicing architecture. He finds that the two are realized as one--designing church buildings and other structures for church organizations. (Social Issues)

Download or read book Bay Boy written by Watt Key and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming, humorous, and colorful coming of age memoir Bay Boy is a collection of essays by award-winning young adult author Watt Key that chronicles his boyhood in Point Clear, Alabama. During his childhood, Point Clear was not the tony enclave of today with its spas, art galleries, and multi-million-dollar waterfront properties. Rather, it was a sleepy resort community, practically deserted in the winter, with a considerable population of working-class residents. As Key writes in his introduction, “Life in Point Clear is really about being outside. . . . I have never found a place so perfectly suited to exercise a young boy’s imagination.” And so Key filled his hours collecting driftwood to make forts, scooting around the bay in a sturdy Stauter-Built boat, and doing art and writing stories when it rained. There is no literary artifice in these pages. The tone here is simple and direct, punctuated by laugh-out-loud moments. Key writes about Gulf Coast traditions including Mardi Gras, shrimping, fishing, dove hunting, hurricanes, jubilees, and camping out. These stories are full of colorful characters—Nasty Bill Dickson, a curmudgeonly tow-truck driver; I’llNeeda, a middle-aged homeless woman encamped in a shack across the road; and the Ghost of Zundel’s Wharf, “the restless soul of a long-dead construction worker.” The stories are illustrated by charming and evocative artwork by the author’s younger brother Murray Key.

Download or read book Boys of Alabama A Novel written by Genevieve Hudson and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “soul-stirring debut,” Boys of Alabama tells the “bewitching” (Michelle Hart, O, The Oprah Magazine) tale of sixteen-year-old Max’s first year in America. “Daring, unusual . . . and startlingly fresh” (Don Noble, Alabama Public Radio), Boys of Alabama announced Genevieve Hudson’s place in the canon of the southern gothic alongside Donna Tartt and Harper Lee. Newly arrived in Alabama, Max falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power. Although his German parents don’t know what to make of a South pining for the past, shy Max thrives after being taken in by the football team. But when he meets fishnet-wearing Pan in physics class, they embark on a quixotic, consuming relationship. Writing in “prose that is always imaginative and sensual” (Sarah Neilson, Believer), Hudson offers a complex portrait of masculinity, religion, immigration, and the adolescent pressures that require total conformity.

Download or read book Alabama Boy A Hero from the Heart of Dixie written by T. Wayne Babb and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alabama Boy is fiction based upon historical fact. It's the story of a dirt-poor farm boy who enlists in the Army to support his family. He ends up making the military his career, and serves in both WWII and the Korean Conflict with distinction. Author T. Wayne Babb was born in Ft. Payne, Alabama, but spent much of his childhood in Chattanooga, Tennessee, an area steeped in Civil War history. He had a 30-year Air Force career where he functioned as an Intelligence Analyst. During his career, Babb served in Japan, Italy, Thailand, Greece, Korea, Alabama, and Texas. Upon retirement, he became an author. Also by T. Wayne Babb: A Tiger by the Tail; Born to Be Brothers, An American Civil War Epic; Honto!; Honto II; Honto III; North of Knoxville - South of Atlanta; and War Stories.

Download or read book An Alabama Boy written by William Pugh Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 1954* with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alabama Moon written by Watt Key and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling, action-packed book, Watt Key gives us the thrilling coming-of-age story of the unique and extremely appealing Alabama Moon, the basis for the film of the same name starring Jimmy Bennett and John Goodman. For as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father's last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. But Moon is soon caught and entangled in a world he doesn't know or understand; he's become property of the government he has been avoiding all his life. As the spirited and resourceful Moon encounters constables, jails, institutions, lawyers, true friends, and true enemies, he adapts his wilderness survival skills and learns to survive in the outside world, and even, perhaps, make his home there. This title has Common Core connections. Alabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Download or read book A Boy From Alabama written by Jim Youngblood and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though I am 86 years young, I still remember distinctly my early childhood and consider myself, “A Boy from Alabama”. The topographical layout of the mining area in Alabama with the creeks and rivers made conditions perfect for my passion to explore nature and all it afforded me. People were honest, hardworking, and willing to help others. I am proud of my childhood in Alabama and visit my area of upbringing whenever possible.

Download or read book A Home for Wayward Boys written by Jerry Armor and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Elizabeth Johnston walked among the convicts in an Alabama prison mining camp, she was stunned to see teenage boys working alongside hardened criminals. As a result of that disturbing experience, she vowed to remove youngsters from such wretched conditions by establishing a home for wayward boys. With the support of women across the state, she persuaded the Alabama legislature to establish the Alabama Boys’ Industrial School in 1900. After several difficult years, Johnston and her all-female board made a once-in-a-lifetime decision by hiring a young couple from Tennessee, David and Katherine Weakley, as superintendent and matron. United by their Christian faith, their love for the boys, and some basic principles on how the boys should be molded into men, Johnston and the Weakleys labored together for decades to make the school one of the nation’s premier institutions of its kind. A Home for Wayward Boys is the inspiring story of the school, its leaders, and the youngsters who lived there. The book’s audience is not limited to those professionally interested in the social sciences and cultural history, but also to social workers, youth leaders, teachers, and parents—in fact, to anyone interested in the transforming power of love.

Download or read book Boy s Life written by Robert McCammon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song. It’s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It’s a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelve-year-old aspiring writer Cory Mackenson. He’s certain he’s sensed spirits whispering in the churchyard. He’s heard of the weird bootleggers who lurk in the dark outside of town. He’s seen a flood leave Main Street crawling with snakes. Cory thrills to all of it as only a young boy can. Then one morning, while accompanying his father on his milk route, he sees a car careen off the road and slowly sink into fathomless Saxon’s Lake. His father dives into the icy water to rescue the driver, and finds a beaten corpse, naked and handcuffed to the steering wheel—a copper wire tightened around the stranger’s neck. In time, the townsfolk seem to forget all about the unsolved murder. But Cory and his father can’t. Their search for the truth is a journey into a world where innocence and evil collide. What lies before them is the stuff of fear and awe, magic and madness, fantasy and reality. As Cory wades into the deep end of Zephyr and all its mysteries, he’ll discover that while the pleasures of childish things fade away, growing up can be a strange and beautiful ride. “Strongly echoing the childhood-elegies of King and Bradbury, and every bit their equal,” Boy’s Life, a winner of both the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Awards, represents a brilliant blend of mystery and rich atmosphere, the finest work of one of today’s most accomplished writers (Kirkus Reviews).

Download or read book A Boy from Alabama written by Jim Youngblood and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though I am 86 years young, I still remember distinctly my early childhood and consider myself, "A Boy from Alabama." The topographical layout of the mining area in Alabama with the creeks and rivers made conditions perfect for my passion to explore nature and all it afforded me. People were honest, hardworking, and willing to help others. I am proud of my childhood in Alabama and visit my area of upbringing whenever possible.

Download or read book Boy General of the 11th Alabama written by Donald W. Abel, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1861, John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders, a 21-year-old cadet at the University of Alabama, helped organize a company of the 11th Alabama Volunteer Infantry. Hailing primarily from Greene County, the 109 men of Company C, "The Confederate Guards," signed on for the duration of the war and made Sanders their first captain. They would fight in every major battle in the Eastern Theater, under Robert E. Lee. Leading from the front, Sanders was wounded four times during the war yet rose rapidly through the ranks, becoming one of the South's "boy generals" at 24. By Appomattox, Sanders was dead and the remaining 20 men of Company C surrendered with what was left of the once formidable Army of Northern Virginia. This is their story.

Download or read book The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys written by Hezekiah John Crumpton and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... Part One Y DEAR Brother Wash: You asked me to prepare some notes on the wanderings of an Alabama Boy. To do this from memory after such a lapse of time will be somewhat inaccurate and prosy, I fear. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE FAMILY LIFE. Our parents were married about 1816. Mother was Miss Matilda Smith Bryan and father Henry T. Crumpton. Both sprang from honorable, well-to-do people from revolutionary sires, who were soldiers of distinction under General Francis Marion. Our maternal grandfather was Rev. Richard Bryan, a Methodist preacher. Our parents started married life in Walterboro, Colleton District, S. C, where were born to them Mary, Richard Alexander, Maranda Ann, Henry Thomas, Hezekiah John, (myself, born Sept. 18, 1828), and William Zachariah; the balance of the ten children, afterwards born in Alabama were James Henderson, Martha Matilda, Jane Eliza, and Washington Bryan, yourself, the baby. All have now passed into the life beyond except you and me. In Walterboro our father developed into something of a plunger in the financial world; made several successful deals, later formed a partnership--the other fellow furnishing experience, our progenitor the "dough." They invested in the purchase and driving of cattle to supply the Charleston beef market. They succeeded well, always re-investing original capital and profit in another and bigger lot, finally meeting a calamity by the drowning of the whole herd in attempting to cross a swollen stream, Broad River, perhaps at its mouth and perhaps from not knowing of the ebb and flow of the tide, though living within forty miles of the coast. With a feeling of disgust, following this financial collapse, our father sought new environment, and by the aid of kins folk loaded up family and...

Download or read book Highway 80 West Ladonia written by Elmer Ray Williams and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highway 80 West Ladonia is the short story autobiography of Elmer Ray Williams, whose father was gunned down when Ray was just eight years old. The balance of childhood for his mother's ten children was marked by hard work and poverty, instilling in the young East Alabama boy a relentless sense of duty to help support his family, and a knack for finding clever ways to earn an extra dollar.Follow Ray as he grows up, falls in love, serves in the military where he learns to send and receive Morse Code with breathtaking speed, builds his own home, and transforms his love of antiquing into a successful antique store, located out Highway 80 West, in Ladonia, Alabama.

Download or read book The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys written by Washington Bryan Crumpton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys" by Washington Bryan Crumpton, H. J. Crumpton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book The Newspaper Boy written by Chervis Isom and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newspaper Boy is a remarkable collection of memories and personal reflections of the deep emotional conflicts a young newspaper delivery boy, Chervis Isom, encountered while growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, in a time of racial strife and discord in the 1950s and early '60s.

Download or read book Alabama s Redemption written by Hale Meserow and published by Marathon Publications Inc. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was good to be white then. The year was 1946. Surviving American soldiers, sailors, and airmen returned victorious from the terror and dangers of WWII. White soldiers found parades in their honor, jobs, eager women, and an adoring country. Black soldiers, who had suffered and performed in the same manner as their white counterparts, came back to a country which still insisted on their subservience. This was especially true in the South, where the god Segregation ruled with an iron hand. Yet Rosa Parks, the Reverend Martin Luther King, the University of Mississippi, and JFK were right around the corner. Into this cauldron comes a young black soldier, a hero of the war, who wants nothing more than the opportunity to buy land, acquire a wife, and raise a family. In a powerful story of faith, character, perseverance, and romance, he faces crushing prejudice, unfair obstacles, and the threat of death. In the end, he meets his greatest enemy and discovers his greatest love.

Download or read book An Alabama Farm Boy s Life written by George Thurman Hanks Jr and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Hanks writes of his memories growing up in Alabama during The Great Depression. This collection of short stories provides a glimpse into the everyday lives of farming families during the early 1900s. Includes photographs of the Hanks family.