Download or read book Memories of Growing Up in Hull Iowa written by Peter Pals and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey back in time to the small northwestern Iowa community of Hull through the life of Pete Pals. The stories will give a glimpse of his life, the history, community, family life, school life and the mischievousness of childhood in the post World War II era.
Download or read book Chasing Childhood Memories written by Larry W. Gamble and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old man, realizing cherished memories of the past are quickly fading, decides to run away in search of his youth. This creative memoir is about "going home again," re-living early life experiences and re-establishing childhood friendships. He and old friends, the "boys in the band," recall early tales of youth from their world during the late 40's and early 1950's. The memories take place in the small north-eastern Iowa community of Elkader. The stories are loaded with a sense of discovery, being awed by the world around them, heart-warming experiences and sorrowful tragedies. Larry Gamble, a good-natured boy at the age of five, moves with his parents and brother to discover a new world in a lively, little town. For five years of his early life, he explores every nook and cranny, including the lips of his first girlfriend, Connie. His rendezvous with another friend, Daisy, ends in a broken heart. His best friend, Harvey, suddenly turns on him. In the confusion of it all, he questions the quality of his friendships and even worse, himself. Ever persevering, he continues his quest for excitement, recalling Corene's amazing cat flying through the air, he re-lives his experiment with a moving steam locomotive destined to jump the rails, and while boating on the Mississippi, he challenges the hull integrity of The Drunken Coconut. These are dangerous and risky choices for a boy named Gamble. This book is a fun-filled adventure memoir about family, friendships, foolish endeavors and the coming of age. The book contains recollections about family, friendships, sexuality, developing self-esteem and living with self-doubt. In other words, it is a story not unlike everyone's story while growing up. It is about Everyman. Together, we remember our childhood experiences when we were all in the same boat--even if it was taking in water.
Download or read book Three to the Hill written by John Wiegman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of growing up in Rolfe, Iowa, in the 1930s and 1940s.
Download or read book Growing Up in Cascade Iowa written by Loras Charles Otting and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of growing up in Cascade, Iowa, in the 1940s and 1950s.
Download or read book The Bob Hope Memorial Book written by Xulon Press, Incorporated and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Childhood on the Farm written by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States transformed itself from an agricultural to an industrial nation, thousands of young people left farm homes for life in the big city. But even by 1920 the nation’s heartland remained predominantly rural and most children in the region were still raised on farms. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg retells their stories, offering glimpses—both nostalgic and realistic—of a bygone era. As Riney-Kehrberg shows, the experiences of most farm children continued to reflect the traditions of family life and labor, albeit in an age when middle-class urban Americans were beginning to redefine childhood as a time reserved for education and play. She draws upon a wealth of primary sources—not only memoirs and diaries but also census data—to create a vivid portrait of midwestern farm childhood from the early post–Civil War period through the Progressive Era growing pains of industrialization. Those personal accounts resurrect the essential experience of children’s work, play, education, family relations, and coming of age from their own perspectives. Steering a middle path between the myth of wholesome farm life and the reality of work that was often extremely dangerous, Riney-Kehrberg shows both the best and the worst that a rural upbringing had to offer midwestern youth a time before mechanization forever changed the rural scene and radio broke the spell of isolation. Down on the farm, truancy was not uncommon and chores were shared across genders. Yet farm children managed to indulge in inventive play—much of it homemade—to supplement store-bought toys and to get through the long spells between circuses. Filled with insightful personal stories and graced with dozens of highly evocative period photos, Childhood on the Farm is the only general history of midwestern farm children to use narratives written by the children themselves, giving a fresh voice to these forgotten years. Theirs was a way of life that was disappearing even as they lived it, and this book offers new insight into why, even if many rural youngsters became urban and suburban adults, they always maintained some affection for the farm.
Download or read book Hooligan from the Hills Growing Up Ornery in Iowa s Loess Hills written by Jeffrey D. Deitering and published by . This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in rural Iowa isn't just a rerun of Mayberry R.F.D. Inside are the true stories of a simple farm kid; memories of growing up in farm communities nestled around the Loess Hills in southwest Iowa. Some may make you laugh, a few may make you cry, a couple may just make you scratch your head and ask, "Why on earth would anyone do that?"
Download or read book Memories of Bess Scholte Gaass written by Susan Price Miller and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flyover Lives written by Diane Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] vivid . . . quest for roots. . . . Splendid.” —The New York Times Book Review Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the world—and did. Now having traveled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she is stung when a French friend teases her about Americans’ indifference to history. Could it be true? The j’accuse haunts Diane and inspires her to dig into her family’s past, working back from the Friday night football of her youth to the adventures illuminated in the letters and memoirs of her stalwart pioneer ancestors—beginning with a lonely young soldier who came to America from France in 1711. As enchanting as her bestselling novels, Flyover Lives is a moving examination of identity and the “wispy but material” family ghosts who shape us. As Johnson pays tribute to her deep Midwestern roots, she captures the perpetual tug-of-war between the magnetic pull of home and our lust for escape and self-invention.
Download or read book Pages from the Past written by Carolyn L. Kitch and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines
Download or read book Memories Dreams Reflections written by Carl G. Jung and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. "An important, firsthand document for readers who wish to understand this seminal writer and thinker." —Booklist In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is that book, composed of conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, as well as chapters written in his own hand, and other materials. Jung continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961, making this a uniquely comprehensive reflection on a remarkable life. Fully corrected, this edition also includes Jung's VII Sermones ad Mortuos.
Download or read book When the Center Is on Fire written by Diane Sue Harriford and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and provocative book, two feminist public sociologists turn to classical social thinkers--W. E. B. Du Bois, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Émile Durkheim--to understand a series of twenty-first century social traumas, including the massacre at Columbine High School, the 9/11 attacks, the torture at Abu Ghraib prison, and Hurricane Katrina. Each event was overwhelming in its own right, while the relentless pace at which they occurred made it nearly impossible to absorb and interpret them in any but the most superficial ways. Yet, each uncovered social problems that cry out for our understanding and remediation. In When the Center Is on Fire, Becky Thompson and Diane Harriford assert that classical social theorists grappled with the human condition in ways that remain profoundly relevant. They show, for example, that the loss of "double consciousness" that Du Bois identified in African Americans enabled political elites to turn a blind eye to the poverty and vulnerability of many of New Orleans's citizens. The authors' compelling, sometimes irreverent, often searing interpretations make this book essential reading for students, activists, generations X, Y, and Z, and everybody bored by the 6 o'clock news.
Download or read book The Corner Post written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harrison County Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Orange County California written by Samuel Armor and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 2432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book That Time of Year written by Garrison Keillor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”
