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Book Saved Folk in the House

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  • Author : Sonnie Beverly
  • Publisher : Walk Worthy Press
  • Release : 2008-12-14
  • ISBN : 0446554049
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Saved Folk in the House written by Sonnie Beverly and published by Walk Worthy Press. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in three parts, a Southern family and their friends grapple with the joys and disappointments of life as a direct result of being raised in a home with strong Christian values.

Book 72 Ways of Saving Lives  Folk Remedies in Old China

Download or read book 72 Ways of Saving Lives Folk Remedies in Old China written by Ronald Suleski and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did lay people in old China save their lives when dealing with acute or chronic health issues? Conventional medicine was costly and might not have been an option for many. Instead, people in villages and towns relied on remedies drawn from a woodblock-printed illustrated booklet called the Seventy-Two Therapies, first published in 1847. The goal of this book is to foster an appreciation of China’s long tradition of folk remedies. Each folk remedy is illustrated by a page from the circa 1860s woodblock edition of the Seventy-Two Therapieswhich the author used for translation. He also added a historical and interpretive analysis to expand on each therapy and to place it in the context of contemporary thinking, aiming at academics and readers interested in the everyday lives of common people in pre-1950 China, and in the folk medicine wisdom inherited from the past. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The 72 specific diseases identified intimate a vast, unexplored world. Professor Suleski’s translation and commentary calls our attention to a work that now compels us to expand our horizons.” —Shigehisa Kuriyama (Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University) “This book captures the fascinating depth and ingenuity in Chinese folk medicine that should still resonate with many readers today. Professor Suleski shows us how empathy and rigor, neither condescending nor mystifying, can shed so much light on the resourceful remedies and arresting imageries employed by past healers to make sense of human suffering and dignity.” —He Bian (Department of History, Princeton University) “In this riveting book, Suleski presents us with a rare glimpse of the kaleidoscopic and curious world of folk remedies in traditional China that has been hitherto overlooked by historians of medicine. Written with enthusiasm and accessible to a general audience, 72 Ways of Saving Lives offers valuable insight into healing practice among ordinary people that is both unconventional in history and rlevant to us today.” —Yan Liu (Department of History, University at Buffalo, SUNY)

Book The Country Almanac of Housekeeping Techniques That Save You Money

Download or read book The Country Almanac of Housekeeping Techniques That Save You Money written by Richard Freudenberger and published by Fair Winds Press (MA). This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Country Almanac of Housekeeping Techniques That Save You Money teaches readers the creative housekeeping secrets of our fore-mothers for maintaining homey houses without modern day expenses.

Book Pennsylvania Farmer

Download or read book Pennsylvania Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slave Narratives  A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives  Complete

Download or read book Slave Narratives A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives Complete written by United States Work Projects Administration and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 2646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was born in Chickashaw County, Mississippi. Ely Abbott and Maggie Abbott was our owners. They had three girls and two boys—Eddie and Johnny. We played together till I was grown. I loved em like if they was brothers. Papa and Mos Ely went to war together in a two-horse top buggy. They both come back when they got through. "There was eight of us children and none was sold, none give way. My parents name Peter and Mahaley Abbott. My father never was sold but my mother was sold into this Abbott family for a house girl. She cooked and washed and ironed. No'm, she wasn't a wet nurse, but she tended to Eddie and Johnny and me all alike. She whoop them when they needed, and Miss Maggie whoop me. That the way we grow'd up. Mos Ely was 'ceptionly good I recken. No'm, I never heard of him drinkin' whiskey. They made cider and 'simmon beer every year. "Grandpa was a soldier in the war. He fought in a battle. I don't know the battle. He wasn't hurt. He come home and told us how awful it was. "My parents stayed on at Mos Ely's and my uncle's family stayed on. He give my uncle a home and twenty acres of ground and my parents same mount to run a gin. I drove two mules, my brother drove two and we drove two more between us and run the gin. My auntie seen somebody go in the gin one night but didn't think bout them settin' it on fire. They had a torch, I recken, in there. All I knowed, it burned up and Mos Ely had to take our land back and sell it to pay for four or five hundred bales of cotton got burned up that time. We stayed on and sharecropped with him. We lived between Egypt and Okolona, Mississippi. Aberdeen was our tradin' point.

Book How Seniors Are Saving the World

Download or read book How Seniors Are Saving the World written by Thelma Reese and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles appear frequently about individuals whose age is noted as a feature of their activism, but the activism of seniors as a growing and influential part of the population is often otherwise overlooked. The speed of change, the expansion of the senior demographic, the growth of citizen participation, and the constant visual images reminding us of these factors, tell us that it is time to look to seniors who are putting their time and energies into helping others and helping the world. Whatever one’s political view, there is consensus in recognizing that we are living in a time of tremendous change, when traditionally trusted institutions and cultural mores are questioned and seriously challenged. It is a time when more and more individuals feel a need to do something, something about issues that concern them, something that makes them aware of the need for a sense of control in a world in chaos, something that makes them aware of their own strength, power, and the value of the wisdom that comes with age. In a time when social media make shallow “clicktivists” of so many, the people profiled here are true activists. Their dedication crosses all societal lines—ethnic, political, religious, and socio-economic. Some have always considered themselves activists. Some find that this stage of life brings a new perspective that results in the need to do more than say. They tell us, in their own words the what, why, and meaning of their specific activism and show others how to do it. Their stories are inspiring for people of all ages.

Book Progressive Age

Download or read book Progressive Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes summaries of proceedings and addresses of annual meetings of various gas associations.

Book Gas Age record

Download or read book Gas Age record written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gas Age

Download or read book Gas Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes summaries of proceedings and addresses of annual meetings of various gas associations. L.C. set includes an index to these proceedings, 1884-1902, issued as a supplement to Progressive age, Feb. 15, 1910.

Book Better Homes and Gardens

Download or read book Better Homes and Gardens written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A commentary on 1   2 PETER

Download or read book A commentary on 1 2 PETER written by David Pawson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two letters were written by the man who tried to persuade Jesus not to be crucified; also wanted to erect three shrines on a mountain top for Moses, Elijah and Jesus; also was targeted by Satan to be sifted (separated) from the other disciples; and whose self-confident loyalty was shattered three times within twenty-four hours. But he had a special place on his Lord's prayer list, which was undoubtedly a major cause of his transformation from a reed (Simon) into a rock (Peter), which enabled him to be the first pastor (not pope) of the church and the first preacher of the gospel (after Pentecost). This high calling qualified him to protect both the church, from the persecution outside, and the gospel, from the corruption inside. That is why his first epistle majors on suffering and the second on backsliding, the latter containing the clearest warning against 'once saved, always saved' complacency. His boldness led to his own crucifixion, upside down at his own request. Bear this in mind as you read both his pastoral letters.

Book Folklife Center News

Download or read book Folklife Center News written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Northamptonshire Folk Tales

Download or read book Northamptonshire Folk Tales written by Kevan Manwaring and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a walk through this county in the heart of England in the entertaining company of a local storyteller. Kevan Manwaring, born and raised in Northampton, regales you with tales ancient and modern. Learn how the farmer outwitted the bogle; how a Queen who lost her head; the Great Fire of Northampton; and the last execution of witches in England. Along the way you will meet incredible characters from history and myth: Boudicca, St Patrick, Robin Hood and Hereward the Wake, Captain Slash, Dionysia the female knight, beasts and angels, cobblers and kings. From fairies to wolves, these illustrated tales are ideal to be read out loud or used as a source book for your own performances. Northamptonshire Folk Talesis a great companion for any visit to the area, for fascinating days out and for discovering exciting treasures on your doorstep. The 'Rose of the Shires' will open before you!

Book Report of the Philadelphia Baby Saving Show and the Proceedings of the Conference on Infant Hygiene

Download or read book Report of the Philadelphia Baby Saving Show and the Proceedings of the Conference on Infant Hygiene written by Philadelphia baby saving show and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Report of the Philadelphia Baby Saving Show

Download or read book The Report of the Philadelphia Baby Saving Show written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mississippi Folk and the Tales They Tell

Download or read book Mississippi Folk and the Tales They Tell written by Diane Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the hills to the coast, the people of Mississippi have stories to tell. Most would never guess that Raleigh, Mississippi, once played host to the National Tobacco Spitting Contest. Over in Okolona, children are told of the man who lived--and died--deep down in a hole and scared passersby. From the gandy dancers who built the first train tracks in Mississippi to the eight-foot-tall man who lived in the woods of Columbia, read tales that range from common myth to a good bit of righteous gossip. Author and storyteller Diane Williams traveled across the Magnolia State to gather these local legends and has compiled them into an inquisitive, laugh-out-loud collection.

Book Folk lore  or  A collection of local rhymes  proverbs  sayings  prophecies  slogans   c  relating to Northumberland  Newcastle on Tyne  and Berwick on Tweed

Download or read book Folk lore or A collection of local rhymes proverbs sayings prophecies slogans c relating to Northumberland Newcastle on Tyne and Berwick on Tweed written by Michael Aislabie Denham and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: