Download or read book A History of Marion County South Carolina from Its Earliest Times to the Present 1901 written by William W. Sellers and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Promise of the New South written by Edward L. Ayers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century. Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts. Ayers takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic Redeemers swept away the legacy of Reconstruction; from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham; from abuse and intimacy in the family to tumultuous public meetings of the prohibitionists. He explores every aspect of society, politics, and the economy, detailing the importance of each in the emerging New South. Central to the entire story is the role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crows laws and disfranchisement. The teeming nineteenth-century South comes to life in these pages. When this book first appeared in 1992, it won a broad array of prizes and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The citation for the National Book Award declared Promise of the New South a vivid and masterfully detailed picture of the evolution of a new society. The Atlantic called it "one of the broadest and most original interpretations of southern history of the past twenty years.
Download or read book Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Indianapolis and Marion County Indiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical and Reminiscent History of Richland Clay and Marion Counties Illinois written by Brookhaven Press and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bridging Eight Decades written by Harold Kieler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a wheat-weaving, this memoir weaves together many strands of interest
Download or read book Biographical and Reminiscent History of Richland Clay and Marion Counties Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carolina Crimes written by Rita Y. Shuler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former forensic photographer leads readers through the twists and turns of twelve homicide cases that gripped South Carolina during her career. Rita Y. Shuler’s fascination with the criminal mind began with her exposure as a young girl to a 1953 double-homicide that shocked South Carolina. When she came face to face with the original case records twenty-four years later on her first day of work as a forensic photographer with South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), she was immediately hooked on a profession that took her deep into the investigation of hundreds of cases. Shuler’s firsthand experience with forensic evidence of crime scenes and the court system gives her a unique perspective on murder and its horrifying effects on public and private lives. By combining analysis of court transcripts and official statements and confessions from murderers with her own personal interactions with the key players in some of these tragic dramas, Shuler allows the reader to see into the criminal minds of notorious killers like Pee Wee Gaskins, Rudolph Tyner, Ronald “Rusty” Woomer, and Larry Gene Bell. Shuler’s study is a must for everyone fascinated by the criminal mind and by the most famous murder cases in South Carolina’s recent past. Includes photos
Download or read book Historic Ocala written by David Cook and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haunted Marion Ohio written by Joshua Simpkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in history and steeped in blue-collar values, Marion, Ohio, is much like any midwestern city, aside from its abundance of ghouls and unexplained phenomena. From well-known landmarks like the mysterious Merchant Ball to largely forgotten locales like the Quarry Street Cemetery, Joshua Simpkins of Spookymarion.com takes readers on a delightful journey through Marions bizarre history and hauntings. Was President Hardings death forecast by the First Ladys squawking finchits feathered form now stuffed and encased in the Harding Homeon the eve of the presidents ill fated trip to Alaska? Dare to visit the Mongoloid House or see what goes bump at the empty downtown YMCA. Revisit Marions urban legends and discover little-known ghouls that deserve to be heard.
Download or read book Across the Line written by Barry Jacobs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, college sports required more than athletic prowess from its African American players. For many pioneering basketball players on 18 teams in the Atlantic and Southeastern conference, playing ball meant braving sometimes menacing crowds during the tumultuous era of civil rights. Perry Wallace feared he would be shot when he first stepped onto a court in his Vanderbilt uniform. During one road game, Georgia's Ronnie Hogue fended off a hostile crowd with a chair. Craig Mobley had to flee the Clemson campus, along with other black students. C.B. Claiborne couldn't attend the Duke team banquet when it was held at an all-white country club. Wendell Hudson's mother cried with heartache when her son decided to play at the University of Alabama, and Al Heartley locked himself in a campus dorm at North Carolina State for safety the night Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Grounded in the civil rights struggles on campuses throughout the south, the voices of players, coaches, opponents and fans reveal the long-neglected story of race, sports and social history. Barry Jacobs has covered college basketball as well as news and other sports since 1976 for numerous publications, among them the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, People, Oceans, the Saturday Evening Post and the Sporting News. He is the author of four books, including Coach K's Little Blue Book, The World According to Dean, and Three Paths to Glory. For 14 years he wrote the Fan’s Guide to ACC Basketball. He also served as an elected county commissioner for 20 years and supervises Moorefields, an historic site near Hillsborough, NC.
Download or read book The Cornbread Mafia written by James Higdon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread Mafia. Author James Higdon—whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the Obama administration—takes readers back to the 1970s and ’80s and the clash between federal and local law enforcement and a band of Kentucky farmers with moonshine and pride in their bloodlines. By 1989 the task force assigned to take down men like Johnny Boone had arrested sixty-nine men and one woman from busts on twenty-nine farms in ten states, and seized two hundred tons of pot. Of the seventy individuals arrested, zero talked. How it all went down is a tale of Mafia-style storylines emanating from the Bluegrass State, and populated by Vietnam veterans and weed-loving characters caught up in Tarantino-level violence and heart-breaking altruism. Accompanied by a soundtrack of rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues, this work of dogged investigative journalism and history is told by Higdon in action-packed, colorful and riveting detail.
Download or read book History of Florida written by Harry Gardner Cutler and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley West Virginia written by Bernard Lee Butcher and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reckoning written by Ninie Hammon and published by Sterling & Stone LLC. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorceress of psychological suspense, Ninie Hammon, brings you the third book in The Knowing Saga, a sprawling tale of spiritual warfare that spans a quarter of a century. If you crave sleep-with-the-lights-on suspense coupled with characters so true they'll feel like family then, The Reckoning is right up your alley. Ordinary people. A demon from hell. The final showdown... In the summer of 1985, Daniel Burke, Becca Hawkins, and Jack Carpenter confronted a demon prince, an efreet, and somehow drove it back to hell. They were twelve years old. Twenty-six years later, the efreet returns and sends superhuman assassins to kill the now-adult “Three Muskateers” before they can challenge him again. Reconnecting for the first time in a quarter of a century, the childhood friends piece together fragmentary memories of that long-ago summer as they fight desperately to stay alive—and to stop the voracious quest for power of the man possessed by the efreet, Chapman Whitworth, Now comes the final confrontation. The only thing that stands between Whitworth and the presidency of the United States is a rag-tag group of ordinary people--Daniel, Becca, Jack, and their friends. This time, they have to go after the demon, not the man—and it doesn’t matter that none of them remembers how they defeated it the first time. They have to find the monster--hidden in a labyrinth of dark caves protected by legions of poisonous spiders and snakes. And they have to stand together against it. If any one of them breaks, they all will die. It has come down to this—one last chance. It’s time for the reckoning. The Knowing began the tale. The Deceiving expanded it. Now, The Reckoning delivers a heart-pounding continuation with a riveting account of the battle against an evil as old as the skeleton of the universe. ★★★★★ "Simply phenomenal. It's hard to nail the conclusion to a trilogy in a satisfying manner, but Ninie really knocked it out of the park." -- Steve Bochte ★★★★★ "What a ripping finale to the trilogy!! The author's wild imagination, coupled with brilliant word skills and dazzling descriptive abilities, present this work as a reading experience - not just a book. Suspense, action, horror, intrigue - it's all there, along with beautifully balanced and subtle humour when the occasion calls for it." -- M. Dusrston ★★★★★ "There are times during the reading of the book that I was so caught up in the story that I reacted physically with racing heart and sweating palms. At other times I consciously breathed a sigh of relief and appreciated the calm. It's possible to read any of the three books in this set alone and follow the story line. But don't cheat yourself, read The Knowing and The Deceiving before you jump off into The Reckoning. You won't regret it!" -- Phyllis W. ★★★★★ "LOVED IT....Again Ninie has not let me down. Before I read book 3 I re-read the first two again. I was expecting to rush thru those because of knowing what happened, NOT. I enjoyed reading them again and picked up some points I didn't see the first time. If you have not tried this author, you really must. Most of her books I would give 10 stars if I could. You rock Ninie!!!" -- D. Price ★★★★★ "This book is fairly fast paced which makes it hard to put down. The fact that the action keeps you turning pages, sometimes does cause me to get less sleep. Then when I finally read the last page, I am sorry that I read so quickly and that it is already over." -- Kaye If you like fast-paced action, gut-tying thrills and themes that will challenge everything you believe about yourself, life and reality, about good and evil and the whole nature of the universe—The Reckoning is the book for you.
Download or read book The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up written by Ann Rule and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive story of four talented, handsome, and charismatic young men--best friends whose bond is shattered when one among them becomes consumed by lethal greed and twisted desire.
Download or read book Eight Hateful Miles written by Stephen Hargis and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of the Bible belt, only one thing could drive folks to set aside the good Lord's commandment to love thy neighbor—one of the state's longest and most combative high-school football rivalries. Located about 25 miles west of Chattanooga, hard by the Alabama state line and in an area with more pride than prosperity, the level of football achievement at Marion County and South Pittsburg—separated by just eight miles—has fueled the rivalry's intensity for nearly a century. South Pittsburg is the only school in the state that has played for a state championship in all six decades that Tennessee has held a playoff system, while Marion County once reeled off a streak of 56-1 that included four state titles in five years. The proximity and pride of the communities is what energizes the atmosphere of the games. Familiarity truly does breed contempt across Eight Hateful Miles.
Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
