Download or read book Childhood Memories of a Virginia Wanderer written by Dewey Plaster and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people have fond memories of their childhood. As parents, we tell our children and grandchildren our stories of growing up. Stories of playing outside with the neighborhood kids, being on the farm, our pets, and things we did on vacation. These are stories that cannot be lost but must be told and retold. Reading these stories will help you remember your childhood and inspire your children to enjoy life and have adventures as kids. And come to love their parents and later appreciating the chance to create lifelong bonds and memories.
Download or read book My Heart Turns Back written by Fay Moorman and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories of Childhood s Slavery Days written by Annie L. Burton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days by Annie L. Burton The memory of my happy, care-free childhood days on the plantation, with my little white and black companions, is often with me We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book Mrs Dalloway written by Virginia Woolf and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.
Download or read book Hayseeds and Muddytoes Fond Memories from the Oral History of Poquoson Virginia written by Phoebe M. Harcum and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoebe Harcum's memories of Poquoson were published in the Poquoson Post in the 1980s. She intended to collect those stories and add remembrances of family and friends into a larger book, but never completed the task before her death in January 2018. Her husband and daughter have edited the stories that were written and combined them with tributes to other Poquoson residents to make an interesting, touching and sometimes humorous testament to early Poquoson. Here, the oral histories become written as we learn about the young boy in a washtub who paddles out to the Yankee gunboat during the Civil War, or the daredevil flyer who volunteers for duty during World War ll, or the rescued steer who comes to live on the farm with us. Join us as we follow Phoebe down a trail of wonderful memories.
Download or read book MEMORIES OF A LONG LIFE IN VIR written by Sallie Alexander Moore 1840 Moore and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wanderer written by Erik Calonius and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Nov. 28, 1858, a ship called the Wanderer slipped silently into a coastal channel and unloaded a cargo of over 400 African slaves onto Jekyll Island, Georgia, fifty years after the African slave trade had been made illegal. It was the last ship ever to bring a cargo of African slaves to American soil. The Wanderer began life as a luxury racing yacht, but within a year was secretly converted into a slave ship, and--using the pennant of the New York Yacht Club as a diversion--sailed off to Africa. More than a slaving venture, her journey defied the federal government and hurried the nation's descent into civil war. The New York Times first reported the story as a hoax; as groups of Africans began to appear in the small towns surrounding Savannah, however, the story of the Wanderer began to leak out, igniting a fire of protest and debate that made headlines throughout the nation and across the Atlantic. As the story shifts from New York City to Charleston, to the Congo River, Jekyll Island and finally Savannah, the Wanderer's tale is played out in the slave markets of Africa, the offices of the New York Times, heated Southern courtrooms, The White House, and some of the most charming homes Southern royalty had to offer. In a gripping account of the high seas and the high life in New York and Savannah, Erik Calonius brings to light one of the most important and little remembered stories of the Civil War period.
Download or read book The Wanderer written by Sharon Creech and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor Book * ALA Notable Children's Book “A beautifully written and imaginatively constructed novel that speaks to the power of survival and the delicacy of grief.” —School Library Journal (starred review) This acclaimed bestselling Newbery Honor Book from multi-award-winning author Sharon Creech is a classic and moving story of adventure, self-discovery, and one girl's independence. Thirteen-year-old Sophie hears the sea calling, promising adventure and a chance for discovery as she sets sail for England with her three uncles and two cousins. Sophie’s cousin Cody isn’t so sure he has the strength to prove himself to the crew and to his father. Through Sophie’s and Cody’s travel logs, we hear stories of the past and the daily challenges of surviving at sea as The Wanderer sails toward its destination—and its passengers search for their places in the world. “Sophie is a quietly luminous heroine, and readers will rejoice in her voyage.” —BCCB (starred review) "Like Creech's Walk Two Moons and Chasing Redbird, this intimate novel poetically connects journey with self-discovery.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Download or read book Memories of a Long Life in Virginia 1920 written by Sallie Alexander Moore and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Wandering Memory written by Jan J. Dominique and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of Haitian journalist and pro-democracy activist Jean Léopold Dominique, who was assassinated in 2000, Jan J. Dominique offers a memoir that provides a uniquely personal perspective on the tumultuous end of the twentieth century in Haiti. Wandering Memory is her elegy for a father and an ode to a beloved, suffering homeland. The book charts the biographical, emotional, and literary journey of a woman moving from one place to another, attempting to return to her craft and put together the pieces of her life in the aftermath of family tragedy. Dominique writes eloquently about love, loss, and traumas both horrifically specific and tragically universal. For readers familiar with Jean Dominique and his life’s work at Radio Haïti, the book offers an intimate perspective on a tale of mythic proportions. For the reading public at large, it offers an approachable and resonant introduction to contemporary Haitian literature, history, and identity.
Download or read book The Development of Children s Memory written by Lynne E. Baker-Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an understanding of memory development through an examination of the scientific contributions of eminent developmental scientist Peter A. Ornstein. His fifty-year career not only coincided with but also contributed to a period of extraordinary progress in the understanding of children's memory. The volume describes this historical context, constructs a theoretical structure for understanding memory development, and emphasizes research applications for educational and forensic practice. Organized around Ornstein's four influential research programs in children's memory strategies, children's event memory, family socialization of memory, and classroom socialization of memory, the chapters examine contemporary directions in each area, with commentaries addressing each program provided by internationally renowned developmental psychologists. The book presents a comprehensive overview of memory development for psychologists and educators at all levels of training and practice, and also provides a model of a generative life in science.
Download or read book Margaret Fuller Wandering Pilgrim written by Meg McGavran Murray and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller,” the pioneering feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary asked herself as a child. “What does it mean?” Filled with new insights into the causes and consequences of Fuller’s lifelong psychic conflict, this biography chronicles the journey of an American Romantic pilgrim as she wanders from New England into the larger world--and then back home under circumstances that Fuller herself likened to those of both the prodigal child of the Bible and Oedipus of Greek mythology. Meg McGavran Murray discusses Fuller’s Puritan ancestry, her life as the precocious child of a preoccupied, grieving mother and of a tyrannical father who took over her upbringing, her escape from her loveless home into books, and the unorthodox--and influential--male and female role models to which her reading exposed her. Murray also covers Fuller’s authorship of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, her career as a New-York Tribune journalist first in New York and later in Rome, her pregnancy out of wedlock, her witness of the fall of Rome in 1849 during the Roman Revolution, and her return to the land of her birth, where she knew she would be received as an outcast. Other biographies call Fuller a Romantic. Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim illustrates how Fuller internalized the lives of the heroes and heroines in the ancient and modern Romantic literature that she had read as a child and adolescent, as well as how she used her Romantic imagination to broaden women’s roles in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, even as she wandered the earth in search of a home.
Download or read book Wandering God written by Morris Berman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in Morris Berman's much acclaimed trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work which garnered such praise as "solid lessons in the history of ideas" (KIRKUS Reviews), "filled with piquant details" (Common Boundary), and "an informative synthesis and a remarkably friendly, good-natured jeremiad" (The Village Voice). Here, in a remarkable discussion of our hunter-gatherer ancestry and the "paradoxical" mode of perception that it involved, Berman shows how a sense of alertness, or secular/sacred immediacy, subsequently got buried by the rise of sedentary civilization, religion, and vertical power relationships. In an integrated tour de force, Wandering God explores the meaning of Paleolithic art, the origins of social inequality, the nature of cross-cultural child rearing, the relationship between women and agriculture, and the world view of present-day nomadic peoples, as well as the emergence of "paradoxical" consciousness in the philosophical writings of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Making of an American written by Jacob A. Riis and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the extraordinary life of Jacob August Riis, a Danish-American social reformer, journalist, and photographer who used his talents to shine a light on the plight of impoverished New Yorkers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Riis's firsthand experience of poverty inspired him to become a police reporter, where he exposed the harsh realities of life in the slums. His groundbreaking work as a "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer contributed significantly to urban reform in America. Through his writings and photographs, Riis advocated for the implementation of "model tenements" and improved living conditions for the poor.
Download or read book The Making of an American written by Jacob August Riis and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outlook written by Alfred Emanuel Smith and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Virginia Settlers written by Wilma Lawson Padgett and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly a record of some of the early settlers of Virginia. Willoughby Blackard was born 12 Aug 1758 in Butte County, North Carolina. He died after 1814 in Wythe County, Virginia. He married Susannah Owens, daughter of Hendrick and Rachael Owens. They were the parents of three children. Symon Aertszen DeHart was born in 1643 and died in 1704. He married Gertje Cornelissen. They were the parents of four children. Robert Hubbard was born in 1610 in England. He came to America in 1645 and died in 1663. He was the father of three children. Thomas Hurst was born ca. 1716 and died after 1788 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. He married Mary. They were the parents of eight children. James Lawson was born between 1760 and 1768. He married Lucy Cox. They were the parents of one child. Lawrence Shelor (Lorentz Schuler/Schiller) was born ca. 1715 in Germany. He died ca. 1795 in Montgomery County, Virginia. He married Margaretta ca. 1735 in Germany. They were the parents of five children. He married Mary before 1778. They were the parents of two children. Robert Southern was born ca. 1780 probably in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He died 24 Aug 1837 in the same county. He married Nancy Neil 27 May 1810 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Peter Neil and Tharley. They were the parents of five children. James Thompson was born in 1745 in North Carolina and died in Montgomery County (now Floyd County), Virginia. He married Sally Renfro. They were the parents of eleven children. Richard Turner was born ca. 1660 and died in Caroline County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth. They immigrated to America from Lands End, England. They were the parents of six children.
