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Book Atchison Blue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Valente
  • Publisher : Ave Maria Press
  • Release : 2013-09-09
  • ISBN : 1933495596
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Atchison Blue written by Judith Valente and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this meditative spiritual memoir, Judith Valente, celebrated PBS religion journalist and celebrated poet, invites readers along on her transformative pilgrimages to Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kansas. The Benedictine sisters who invited Valente presented her with a view of monastic life and wisdom that brought spiritual healing to her fast-paced life--and promises to do the same for her readers. The first time Judith Valente arrived at Mount St. Scholastica monastery, she came prepared to teach a course on poetry and the soul. Instead, she found herself the student, taking lessons from the Benedictine sisters in the healing nature of silence, how to cultivate habits of mindful living, and the freeing reality that conversion is a lifelong process. With the heart of a poet and the eye of a journalist, she tells how her many visits and interviews with the Benedictine sisters forced her to confront aspects of her own life that needed healing--a journey that will invite readers to healing of their own. A beautiful and heartfelt work that crosses The Cloister Walk with Tuesdays with Morrie, Atchison Blue will resonate with readers of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Mary Gordon, and Anne Lamott.

Book History of the Atchison  Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Download or read book History of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway written by Keith L. Bryant Jr. and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyrus K. Holliday envisioned a railroad that would run from Kansas to the Pacific, increasing the commerce and prosperity of the nation. With farsighted investors and shrewd management, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway grew from Holliday’s idea into a model of the modern, rapid, and efficient railroad. There were many growing pains early on, including rustlers, thieves, and desperadoes as well as the nineteenth century’s economic and climatic hardships. The railroad eventually extended from Chicago to San Francisco, with substantial holdings in oil fields, timber land, uranium mines, pipelines, and real estate. This is the first comprehensive history of the iconic Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, from its birth in 1859 to its termination in 1996. This volume discusses the construction and operation of the railway, the strategies of its leaders, the evolution of its locomotive fleet, and its famed passenger service with partner Fred Harvey. The vast changes within the nation’s railway system led to a merger with the Burlington Northern and the creation of the BNSF Railway. An iconic railroad, the Santa Fe at its peak operated thirteen thousand miles of routes and served the southwestern region of the nation with the corporate slogan “Santa Fe All the Way.” This new edition covers almost twenty-five more years of history, including the merger of the Santa Fe and Burlington Northern railroads and new material on labor, minorities, and women on the carrier along with new and updated maps and photographs.

Book History of Atchison County  Kansas

Download or read book History of Atchison County Kansas written by Sheffield Ingalls and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atchison  Kansas

Download or read book Atchison Kansas written by Atchison (Kan.). Urban Renewal Board and published by . This book was released on 1966* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sallie House Haunting

Download or read book The Sallie House Haunting written by Debra Lyn Pickman and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the firsthand account of what Tony and Debra Pickman and their newborn son Taylor experienced in the now notorious Sallie House, from the day they moved in to the turn-of-the-century haunted house until they finally fled in terror. The story of the Sallie House and the fire-starting ghost girl who haunted it has sparked endless rumors and theories of murder, cover-ups, racism, and abuse. But the Pickmans know the real story because they lived it—and barely made it out alive. Now, for the first time, Tony and Debra reveal untold stories from their ordeal. They describe Sallie's seemingly protective fascination with their baby, and tell what it was like to live with menacing entities that scratched, bit, and terrorized their family. Along with historical research, the Pickmans share personal photographs and journal entries from their time spent living in the nightmare house that still haunts them today.

Book Government of the City of Atchison  Kansas

Download or read book Government of the City of Atchison Kansas written by Atchison (Kan.). and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book US 73 Improvements  Leavenworth Atchison Counties

Download or read book US 73 Improvements Leavenworth Atchison Counties written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Atchison County  Kansas

Download or read book History of Atchison County Kansas written by Ingalls Sheffield and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book This Is Not Dixie

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  • Author : Brent M.S. Campney
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2015-08-30
  • ISBN : 0252097610
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book This Is Not Dixie written by Brent M.S. Campney and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-08-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M. S. Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in post–Civil War Kansas. Campney's capacious definition of white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive routine violence--property damage, rape, forcible ejection from towns--used to intimidate African Americans. As he shows, such methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white supremacy. Yet Campney's broad consideration of racist violence also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats. African Americans spontaneously hid fugitives and defused lynch mobs while also using newspapers and civil rights groups to lay the groundwork for forms of institutionalized opposition that could fight racist violence through the courts and via public opinion. Ambitious and provocative, This Is Not Dixie rewrites fundamental narratives on mob action, race relations, African American resistance, and racism's grim past in the heartland.

Book HIST OF ATCHISON COUNTY KANSAS

Download or read book HIST OF ATCHISON COUNTY KANSAS written by Sheffield 1875 Ingalls and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atchison  Kansas

Download or read book Atchison Kansas written by Burbank's Printshop (Atchison, Kan.) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atchison  Kansas

Download or read book Atchison Kansas written by and published by . This book was released on 1956* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book City of Atchison  Kansas

Download or read book City of Atchison Kansas written by Earl Hellener and published by . This book was released on 1956* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book HIST OF ATCHISON COUNTY KANSAS

Download or read book HIST OF ATCHISON COUNTY KANSAS written by Sheffield Ingalls and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atchison  Kansas Memories of Years Past

Download or read book Atchison Kansas Memories of Years Past written by Gary D. Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Haunted Kansas

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  • Author : Lisa Hefner Heitz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Haunted Kansas written by Lisa Hefner Heitz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ghost stories and narration unique to the state of Kansas. The stories are a blend of mystery and menace. The ghosts are shown are to notoriously linked to a specific structure or landscape, whether it be an 18th century mansion or a bottomless pool.