Download or read book And the Meadow Lark Sang written by Margaretha Willms and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2011 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories are blessings and with this volume of memoirs, Margaretha Willms leaves a legacy of gifts for future generations. This collection of stories radiates the simplicity of a carefree childhood of growing up and changing with the seasons of life, a reminder of the repetition and rhythm of nature on the prairies and the assurance of a coming spring when the meadowlark sings once again. Deep in every family background are the ethnic and religious values of their ancestors and it is important to preserve them by passing on stories connected to the places where those values found fullness in everyday living. Margaretha writes, "A person is bound to their place of birth, to the home of their childhood, to the graves of their parents, and to customs and traditions even if only in memory" and history is a journey into that memory. In recording moments of time about living through the hardships of the Great Depression, she often finds humour in describing what seem in their proper perspective, to lend themselves to rather amusing explorations. Her story is told with candid, unflinching honesty, giving a glimpse of Mennonite social and religious traditions that made life unique. Margaretha's sensitive portrayal of country schools in which her husband taught in the 1950s revives the spirit of rural schools as the heart and soul and pulse of every community in their time. Something of the prairies survives in the melody of the meadowlark and the stories in Margaretha Willms' book are also sustained for the future, memories of the past, too full of life to be forgotten.
Download or read book The Day the Meadowlark Sang written by Edward N. Opheim and published by Vantage Press. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book And a Meadowlark Sang written by Jen Pretty and published by Jen Pretty. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lark has a secret. She can see the vampires hiding among us for what they really are: sharp-toothed, blood-sucking demons. If her secret ever gets out, she'll likely find herself on the menu and be left bloodless in some back alley before she can say Namaste. Yoga is the only thing that helps her find balance in her crummy life; a way of staying in touch with her inner goddess. But she is closer to the great Hindu goddess, Durga, than she ever imagined. A chance run-in with the most powerful vampire in the city, Mr. Crowden, leaves Lark with only two choices: fight or flight. When the arrogant vampire won't leave her alone, and dangerous rogue vampires start closing in, will she accept a life-changing deal with the devil? Her dreams of running her own studio and being safe from the demons of the night are up for grabs. But when things go from bad to worse, will she find the ancient power hiding within her before it
Download or read book While the Meadowlark Sang written by Rosemary Parsons Torrez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Meadowlark Sang is a lifetime collection of poems and memoirs from the long life of Rosemary Parsons Torrez. Rosemary's poetry and narratives describe her years in the Kansas heartland and the joys and sorrows of a vibrant growing midwest family. Her voice is strong, tender, generous and resilient, and ultimately, inspiring for all of us. While simple in theme, Rosemary's writings have a humor, wisdom, and elegance that prove her true talent of expression.
Download or read book As the Meadowlarks Sang written by Elnora Kelly Pelton and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Meadowlark s Song written by Phyllis Amoth Dirks and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-03-14 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only in this generation had Albert and his family been Mennonites. Sometimes they struggled with the tenets of this new faith, far more restrictive than the Lutheranism of their early years. Along with the stresses of adhering to this new way of life, one that effectively cut them off from communication even with close relatives who lived nearby, was the added struggle of living through the years of the Dustbowl, when for all who lived on farms through those times, the ‘wolf’ of poverty was always at the door. Ultimately, the decision of the family to leave the land of the beloved family homestead, was made both harder and easier by the economic realties of that historic time.
Download or read book The Ransomed Heart written by John Eldredge and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Way Home written by J. D. Oliver and published by CCB Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1886-87 the Cattlemen in Wyoming and Montana lost over ninety percent of their herds. The cold and snow started in the last part of December and lasted through March. Many of the ranches were owned by the English. After their devastating losses many of those English ranchers gave up and went back to England. Therein lays the start of the story of The Angel and The Cowboy and their quest to find their way home. Home means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Is home a physical place or a place in your mind? There is a saying: "It's the ride and not the destination." Pecos Pete was a fabled cartoon character who roped a Tornado and rode it for the ride of his cartoon life. Trea Gordon had no idea that he was in for just such a ride when he opened his eyes in a hospital bed in Chicago and saw his Angel standing there. About the Author J. D. Oliver highlights the struggle between good and evil in all his work, whether it is novels or the Cowboy Poetry he writes and performs. History, incredible knowledge of the world and the type of people who inhabit it are all present in his work. J. D. was born in Montana, where his roots go back to the early 1800's. Both sets of his grandparents homesteaded in Montana; on his mother's side, on a dry land wheat farm in Central Montana, Highwood to be exact. On his father's side it was on a cattle ranch in south central Montana, in the little town of Edgar, where he went to school with the Crow Indian children from Pryor, Montana. He traveled widely in the Navy and worked in the logging industry as well as an Operating Engineer, building roads and dams. However he always came back to the homestead during winter to help feed cattle with his Dad. J. D. is married with two children, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. This is J. D. Oliver's sixth book. His first five titles include: I Awoke to Silence, Wail Not!, Hope Dies Last, As the Eagle Flies and Trego.
Download or read book Rocky Mountain Tipi Tales written by Hal Borland and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page. This book was released on 1924 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes tales from the Ute, Piute, Omaha, Blackfoot, Hopi and Teton tribes.
Download or read book Crows and Other Pedestrians written by Rita Traut Kabeto and published by Rita Kabeto. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: collection of autobiographical fiction, non-fiction, critical and historical essays, a short story, travelogue to Weimar in the former East Germany 2 years after the wall came down, riddles, some poetry, and anecdotes.
Download or read book Best Enemies written by Anthony D'Augustine and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-05-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The true measure of a man lies in his ability to remain independent and in his capacity to command respect. Plain and simple. That's an epitaph I'd favor." Such is the philosophy of one-time Newark Detective Sergeant Mac Taylor. After retiring under questionable circumstances, Mac searches to find his daughter and to square up with two of his BEST ENEMIES. The search takes him to a recreational park in the Catskill Mountains known as Mongaup Pond. When a murder and kidnapping occur at the upstate New York campground, Mac takes it personally. With the help of two weekend campers (Jason Strunella and his sister, Cheryl Groden), Mac sets out to deliver a special brand of street justice upon the offenders. Meanwhile, Police Lieutenant Evan Falco-working within the constraints of the law-races to find the determined avengers and to unravel a greater mystery; one that leads to a startling conclusion.
Download or read book A War modified Course of Study for the Public Schools of Colorado written by Colorado. Department of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book If This Is A Secret Why Am I Telling It written by Russell Drake and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not always easy to make the best choices, to live values that reflect your lifestyle, to manage time, to balance life, and to speak without fear. In If This Is A Secret, Why Am I Telling It?, author Russell L. Drake explores the activities and actions that color and shape our lives.Employing a humorous and common sense approach to life, Drake offers a fast-paced narrative that touches on facets important to living a life filled with passion and purpose. If this is a Secret, Why am I Telling It? provides thirty-one suggestions, tips, and ideas which include:¥Learning to love yourself ¥Investing in your future ¥Developing values to live by ¥Navigating through failure ¥Going after life's successes by setting goals ¥Inspiring others ¥Expanding your memory
Download or read book Leaning on the Wind written by Sid Marty and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fiction Winner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book Festival Leaning on the Wind is a love song of the west, sung to the tune of the wild chinook wind. Sid Marty skilfully weaves together the prehistory of Alberta with the experiences of First Nations, miners, early homesteaders and his own family. At the centre of his tale is the Marty homestead, located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Sid looks back through generations of his family and celebrates the feats of wild creatures and wild westerners. The past comes alive in these pages, but so does the present, where you will meet cowboy poets, bull riders, sailplane pilots, desperate chicken farmers, curmudgeonly broncos, a homicidal cow elk, some dubious politicians and several fierce defenders of the earth. Humour and sardonic wit abound, along with abundant affection for the western earth and the people who depend on its bounties and experience its extremes of wind, frost and drought. A western classic, Leaning on the Wind is as evocative today as when it was first published in 1995.
Download or read book The Young Woman s Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shadows on the Plain written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of hard-crafted fiction set in the contemporary West, stories about life and love, loss and death, with a few laughs along the way. In selections such as “Cowboy Heart,” “Ice on the Doorstep,” “Chokecherries Are Free,” “Drunk on Christmas Day,” and “Dusk on the Rangeland,” the book captures the spirit of people who tough it out in a world both modern in its problems and timeless in its landscape. This collection has all the fine features that have won praise for John D. Nesbitt’s earlier novels and short stories.
Download or read book Scarlet Plume written by Frederick Manfred and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, the largest Indian uprising in American history occurred in southern Minnesota. Enraged Sioux attempted to throw off the broken treaties that still bound them and to avenge the insults and depredations they had been forced to bear. Hundreds of whites were killed. Women were taken captive. Told from the point of view of Judith Raveling, a young woman widowed by the uprising, Scarlet Plume draws on the brutal history of the conflict from beginning to end. Taken captive by the Sioux she is given to Scarlet Plume, one of the many warriors who know their cause is lost. Caught between the men who would wage war ruthlessly and his own judgment, which tells him how dearly the Sioux will pay for every white killed, Scarlet Plume tries to save all he can. Through the dangers of a pitiless war he returns Judith to the safety of her people. Soon she must try to save him. Scarlet Plume is the third of Frederick Manfred's five-volume series, the Buckskin Man Tales.
