Download or read book Kentucky Summers with Uncle Billy written by Sandra Cummins Schrader and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-10-31 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dark Days in Morgan County written by Tim Callahan and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timmy's life has changed since his dad died. He is now living with his grandparents and attending the one-room school back in Kentucky. A colored family has moved into the Morgan County farm community in 1960. Overcoming his initial fear, Timmy makes friends with the poor Henry Washington's clan of six and introduces them to other families in the area. The problem is: at least one man moved to Morgan County to keep his family from having to live near blacks and is determined to keep the area all white.
Download or read book The Ordeal of the Reunion written by Mark Wahlgren Summers and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction
Download or read book The Historic Kentucky Kitchen written by Deirdre A. Scaggs and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100 old-time recipes “authentic enough that one can easily cook like grandma (or her ma). A must for every kitchen and a nostalgic delight” (Louisville Courier-Journal). Kitchens aren’t just a place to prepare food—they’re cornerstones of the home and family. Just as memories are passed down through stories shared around the stove, recipes preserve traditions and customs for future generations. The Historic Kentucky Kitchen assembles over one hundred dishes from nineteenth and twentieth-century Kentucky cooks. Deirdre A. Scaggs and Andrew W. McGraw collected recipes from handwritten books, diaries, scrapbook clippings, and out-of-print cookbooks from the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections to bring together a variety of classic dishes, complete with descriptions of each recipe’s origin and helpful tips for the modern chef. The authors, who carefully tested each dish, also provide recipe modifications and substitutions for hard-to-find ingredients. This entertaining cookbook also serves up famous Kentuckians’ favorite dishes, including John Sherman Cooper’s preferred comfort food (eggs somerset) and Lucy Hayes Breckinridge’s “excellent” fried oysters. The recipes are flavored with humorous details such as “[for] those who thought they could not eat parsnips” and “Granny used to beat ’em [biscuits] with a musket.” Accented with historic photos and featuring traditional meals ranging from skillet cakes to spaghetti with celery and ham, this is a novel and tasty way to experience the rich, diverse history of the Bluegrass State.
Download or read book A Dangerous Stir written by Mark Wahlgren Summers and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process so dangerously out of kilter that the republic itself remained in peril. To understand Reconstruction, Summers contends, one must understand that the purpose of the North's war was--first and foremost--to save the Union with its republican institutions intact. During Reconstruction there were always fears in the mix--that the Civil War had settled nothing, that the Union was still in peril, and that its enemies and the enemies of republican government were more resilient and cunning than normal mortals. Many factors shaped the reintegration of the former Confederate states and the North's commitment to Reconstruction, Summers agrees, but the fears of war reigniting, plots against liberty, and a president prepared to father a coup d'etat ranked higher among them than historians have recognized. Both a dramatic narrative of the events of Reconstruction and a groundbreaking new look at what drove these events, A Dangerous Stir is also a valuable look at the role of fear in the politics of the time--and in politics in general.
Download or read book The Queen of Kentucky written by Alecia Whitaker and published by Poppy. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would prefer to be called Ericka, thank you very much, is eager to shed her farmer's daughter roots and and fit in with the popular crowd at her small-town high school. She trades her Bible for Seventeen magazine, buys new "sophisticated" clothes, and strikes up an unlikely flirtation with the freshman class's resident bad boy. She's on top of the world, even though her best friend and neighbor, Luke, say she misses "plain old Ricki Jo." Caught between being a country girl and a wannabe country club girl, Ricki Jo begins to forget who she truly is: someone who doesn't care what people think and who wouldn't let a good-looking guy walk all over her. After a serious incident on Luke's farm, Ricki Jo realizes that being a true friend is more important than being popular... and the one boy who matters most has been next door all along.
Download or read book Hillbilly Elegy written by J. D. Vance and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Download or read book Forever the Pack written by Tim Callahan and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I pointed toward a figure that looked to be seven to eight feet tall crossing the field below us. It looked like a large hairy gorilla-like figure humped over and lumbering along. Several of the kids gasped when they finally saw it. The creature stopped and tilted his head to the sky and let out another bellowing cry, "Aah, ugh." I got goose bumps up and down my arms. The hairs on my body stood on end. Susie grabbed my arm and buried her head into my forearm.In the last installment of the Kentucky Summers series, Tim Callahan has given us a story of excitement and compassion. The fall of 1962 and school is ready to begin. Uncle Morton is in the hospital, and the Wolf Pack is on their final mission--find James Ernest and Big Foot.A reunion, forty-three years later, brings back all your favorite characters to reminisce and maybe have one last adventure, revealing a secret Timmy has kept for all those years.
Download or read book Kentucky Summers written by Tim Callahan and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only did James Ernest hogtie the two men, but he preached to them after doing it. I felt he should have sung Amazing Grace to them, but I was in a hurry to get away just in case they had any friends who were out looking for them, which I strongly doubted. In Red River, Junior, and the Witch, the seventh novel in the Kentucky Summers series by Tim Callahan, the action takes place on the Red River in the summer of 1962. The Wolf Pack is on their summer adventure, canoeing Kentucky's Red River, and they've invited Henry Junior to join them. The six boys and Coty are in for the canoe trip of their life. The boys encounter huge rapids, wildlife, dangerous men, weird meals, and a witch. So how do they come away as heroes? You'll keep turning the pages until that fact is revealed. Red River, Junior, and the Witch is again filled with the humor, suspense, and the adventure that you've come to expect in a Tim Callahan novel. Come in and spend a spell with the Wolf Pack. They might share their possum stew with you.
Download or read book Kentucky summers bk 6 written by Tim Callahan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kentucky Unbridled Spirit and Beauty written by Chuck Summers and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kentucky: Unbridled Spirit and Beauty, award-winning photographer Chuck Summers reveal the awesome natural beauty of the Bluegrass State. From the lofty hills of the eastern region to the floodplains of the west, Kentucky displays a wondrous diversity of natural treasures. Within this lovely collection of 279 full-color images, one encounters inspiring landscapes, magnificent wildlife, and colorful wildflowers. Many of the pictures come from well-known state and national parks, while others were captured in less familiar locations across the Commonwealth. All join together as a marvelous testimony to the natural beauty of a state, which heretofore has been better known for its horse racing and basketball. After a journey through this large 11″x11″ coffee-table style book, the reader may well question why this has been so. Others, will no doubt begin planning trips to experience for themselves the exquisite beauty that is known as Kentucky.
Download or read book The Summers Family of Maryland and Kentucky written by Charles D. Summers and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summers Family of Maryland and Kentucky Descendants written by Charles D. Summers and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This genealogy book follows the descendants of John Summers of Maryland in a direct line to the author, with each receiving a chapter with sources. Others, from the main line and allied families are also investigated, with appropriate sources. There are outline descendant charts for the following: Summers, Roby, McDaniels, Harper, Cissell, Hammett, and Phelon. The Summers branch also has a kinship report, as does the Roby branch. The book is fully indexed.
Download or read book Above Devil s Creek written by Tim A. Callahan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timmy's life is changing again. His mother has moved herself and Timmy's sister, Janie, to Kentucky so they can be together again. But during this fourth installment of the popular Kentucky Summers series, Mom is having a change of heart. Danger, weather, and extraordinary country circumstances are convincing her that this is not the place to rear her children. Timmy is trying his best to convince her otherwise, but he is continually thrown into situations beyond his control that do just the opposite. The Wolf Pack is at it again in Above Devil's Creek, and this time they're up against a thrilling real-life adventure that is the stuff of the wildest imagination. The twins, Delma and Thelma, of course hope the adventure ends in disaster for Timmy. But does it? Country life, humor, and warmth jump off the pages of Author Tim novel. It will leave kids and adults with a smile and a longing for the next Kentucky Summer adventure-not to mention a good dose of nostalgia.
Download or read book Summer Is Her Name written by Betsy Houser and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer began her life on a small farm in Appalachia. From there, she traveled the world, always planning to go back someday. She covered many miles and filled her life with many people, before she fulfilled her dream of going home.
Download or read book Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds written by Willard Rouse Jillson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By: Willard Rouse Jillson, Pub. 1926, Reprinted 2018, 582 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-949-4. This is a complete index to the earliest land records of Kentucky alphabetically arranged under the names of the grantees, giving the number of acres, dates, locations, and page references in the original records. The bulk of the work is devoted to the early Fayette, Lincoln, and Jefferson county records which were turned over to Kentucky by Virginia in 1792. Also included are Military Warrants 1782-1793, Court of Appeals Deeds-Grantees 1783-1909, Court of Appeals Deeds-Grantors 1783-1909, Court of Appeals Deeds-Wills 1779-1850, and Court of Appeals Deeds-Power of Attorneys 1781-1853.
Download or read book Kentucky Y all written by Blair Thomas Hess and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people think of Kentucky, three things usually come to mind: bourbon, Colonel Sanders's secret chicken recipe, and the glamorous Kentucky Derby. Add college basketball to that list, and you have yourself a superfecta. Looking beyond these time-honored traditions, however, visitors will find in Kentucky a diverse patchwork of faces and places, each as unique as the state's geography. Kentucky, Y'all: A Celebration of the People and Culture of the Bluegrass State is an entertaining and informative compilation of the state's favorite oddities, cultural quirks, traditions, and rites of passage. Authors and proud Kentuckians Blair Thomas Hess and Cameron M. Ludwick share the best stories from their experiences as writers, travelers, and residents in this ode to the Commonwealth. From the iconic to the obscure, the book reveals vital knowledge that every Kentuckian—whether by birth, residence, or simply in mind and heart—should know. What is beer cheese? Who was Bill Monroe? Where can you get a hemp hot dog? Readers are introduced to the brilliant minds behind the Louisville Slugger, the Bowie knife, and pioneering work in genetics. The book also includes a handy list of dos and don'ts of tailgating, a Kentucky sayings glossary, and bucket lists of things to do, drink, read, and eat. Featuring hand-drawn illustrations that represent life, fashion, and entertainment in the Commonwealth, Kentucky, Y'all is an insightful and exuberant guide to the Bluegrass State—for Kentucky natives and visitors alike.
