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Book Creating Community

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-10-17
  • ISBN : 9781736236710
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Creating Community written by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Community expands the written histories of Springfield that have long overlooked this minority in the local community. It also adds to the growing study of small Jewish communities around the United States. Springfield is both Southern and Midwestern in flavor and this is reflected in the Jewish community's development that has examples of both. Jews have been part of the economic development of the town since the 1860s. Since then, they have also been involved in fraternal and social organizations, politics, and education. This is not a complete history, but its purpose is not to be encyclopedic, rather it is to exemplify how this minority group were part of the growth the Queen City of the Ozarks.

Book Gone in the Night

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  • Author : Alan Brown
  • Publisher : World Castle Publishing, LLC
  • Release : 2023-06-26
  • ISBN : 1960076930
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Gone in the Night written by Alan Brown and published by World Castle Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art imitates life in Springfield, Missouri, as former reporter Brian Brown visits his hometown in the early days of the pandemic to interview private investigator Booger McClain for a possible book about the area’s most famous missing person’s case. Nearly 30 years earlier, two young women who had just graduated from Kickapoo High School, along with the mother of one of the girls, disappeared without a trace. The search for the three missing women consumed the psyche of the community in the latter half of 1992 and garnered attention from the national press, but it was all for naught. The women were never found, and no one was ever charged with their disappearance. Soon after meeting Detective McClain, Brown quickly learns that this case he was familiar with has haunted the quirky private investigator for three decades. What unfolds are the unnerving details of what are known and heartbreaking speculations of what must have happened. In the end, the investigators find reasons for hope as they grapple with their own limitations in an unforgiving world. Included is an exclusive interview with Janis McCall thirty one-years after the disappearance of her daughter, Stacy.

Book Every Leaf a Hallelujah

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  • Author : Ben Okri
  • Publisher : Other Press, LLC
  • Release : 2022-02-15
  • ISBN : 163542271X
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Every Leaf a Hallelujah written by Ben Okri and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guardian: Best Children's and YA Book of the Year An environmental fairytale that speaks eloquently to the most pressing issues of our times, from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Famished Road. Mangoshi lives with her mom and dad in a village near the forest. When her mom becomes ill, Mangoshi knows only one thing can help her—a special flower that grows deep in the forest. The little girl needs all her courage when she sets out alone to find and bring back the flower, and all her kindness to overpower the dangers she encounters on the quest. Ben Okri brings the power of his mystic vision to a timely story that weaves together wonder, adventure, and environmentalism.

Book John T  Woodruff of Springfield  Missouri  in the Ozarks

Download or read book John T Woodruff of Springfield Missouri in the Ozarks written by Thomas Peters and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into poverty in the rural Missouri Ozarks shortly after the end of the Civil War, John T. Woodruff (1868-1949) became the greatest promoter of civic and regional development in the history of Springfield, Missouri. Schools, colleges, hospitals, hotels, and resorts all owed their existence and location to Woodruff's clear vision and indefatigable efforts. The Woodruff Building and the Kentwood Arms Hotel are two of his outstanding architectural achievements. Woodruff brought the Frisco West Maintenance and Repair Shops to Springfield, and he helped found and build the entire town of Camdenton near the Lake of the Ozarks. For decades Woodruff promoted and built good roads in the Missouri Ozarks, and served two terms as the first president of the U.S. 66 Highway Association. In this encyclopedic biography, Peters documents the achievements -- amazing both for their breadth and impact -- of John T. Woodruff, a paragon of civic engagement.

Book Jews of Springfield in the Ozarks

Download or read book Jews of Springfield in the Ozarks written by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews arrived to the bustling town of Springfield shortly after its founding in 1838, only five years after the birth of the state of Missouri. The first Jews to live in Springfield were Victor and Bertha Sommers with her brother Ferdinand Bakrow. They opened Victor Sommers & Co., a dry goods store in 1860. The Jewish community grew as merchants brought their families, tying Springfield to other towns along the Mississippi River through marriages. The first congregation was founded in 1893 by the German Reform Jews. In 1918, the Eastern European Jews founded their Orthodox congregation. In the 1940s, the two merged. Unlike other small Jewish communities that have slowly perished because of their children's migration to larger Jewish communities where they could use their education, this Jewish community in the Ozarks continues to thrive because of the universities and hospitals in the region.

Book The 5 Masculine Instincts

Download or read book The 5 Masculine Instincts written by Chase Replogle and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t trust your instincts—there is a better path to becoming a better man. It’s no secret: today’s men face a dilemma. Our culture tells them that their instincts are either toxic or salvific. Men are left with only two options: deconstruct and forfeit masculine identity or embrace it with wild abandon. They’re left to decide between ignoring their instincts or indulging them. Neither approach helps them actually understand their own masculine experiences nor how those experiences can lead them to become better men of God. The Bible doesn’t shy away from the reality of masculine instincts nor all of the ways those instincts can lead to destruction. Examining the lives of five men of the Bible, The 5 Masculine Instincts shows that these men aren’t masculine role models or heroes but are men who wrestled with their own desires and, by faith, matured them into something better. Through this book you’ll discover your own instincts are neither curse nor virtue. They are the experiences by which you develop a new and better instinct—an instinct of faith. By exploring sarcasm, adventure, ambition, reputation, and apathy, The 5 Masculine Instincts shows you how to better understand yourself and how your own instincts can be matured into something better. This is the path by which we become better men.

Book The Ozarks in Missouri History

Download or read book The Ozarks in Missouri History written by Lynn Morrow and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-12-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in scholarly study of the Ozarks has grown steadily in recent years, and The Ozarks in Missouri History: Discoveries in an American Region will be welcomed by historians and Ozark enthusiasts alike. This lively collection gathers fifteen essays, many of them pioneering efforts in the field, that originally appeared in the Missouri Historical Review, the journal of the State Historical Society. In his introduction, editor Lynn Morrow gives the reader background on the interest in and the study of the Ozarks. The scope of the collection reflects the diversity of the region. Micro-studies by such well-known contributors as John Bradbury, Roger Grant, Gary Kremer, Stephen Limbaugh Sr., and Milton Rafferty explore the history, culture, and geography of this unique region. They trace the evolution of the Ozarks, examine the sometimes-conflicting influences exerted by St. Louis and Kansas City, and consider the sometimes highly charged struggle by federal, state, and local governments to define conservation and the future of Current River.

Book Eating Up Route 66

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  • Author : T. Lindsay Baker
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2022-10-13
  • ISBN : 0806191619
  • Pages : 761 pages

Download or read book Eating Up Route 66 written by T. Lindsay Baker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its designation in 1926 to the rise of the interstates nearly sixty years later, Route 66 was, in John Steinbeck’s words, America’s Mother Road, carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles. Whoever they were—adventurous motorists or Dustbowl migrants, troops on military transports or passengers on buses, vacationing families or a new breed of tourists—these travelers had to eat. The story of where they stopped and what they found, and of how these roadside offerings changed over time, reveals twentieth-century America on the move, transforming the nation’s cuisine, culture, and landscape along the way. Author T. Lindsay Baker, a glutton for authenticity, drove the historic route—or at least the 85 percent that remains intact—in a four-cylinder 1930 Ford station wagon. Sparing us the dust and bumps, he takes us for a spin along Route 66, stopping to sample the fare at diners, supper clubs, and roadside stands and to describe how such venues came and went—even offering kitchen-tested recipes from historic eateries en route. Start-ups that became such American fast-food icons as McDonald’s, Dairy Queen, Steak ’n Shake, and Taco Bell feature alongside mom-and-pop diners with flocks of chickens out back and sit-down restaurants with heirloom menus. Food-and-drink establishments from speakeasies to drive-ins share the right-of-way with other attractions, accommodations, and challenges, from the Whoopee Auto Coaster in Lyons, Illinois, to the piles of “chat” (mining waste) in the Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, to the perils of driving old automobiles over the Jericho Gap in the Texas Panhandle or Sitgreaves Pass in western Arizona. Describing options for the wealthy and the not-so-well-heeled, from hotel dining rooms to ice cream stands, Baker also notes the particular travails African Americans faced at every turn, traveling Route 66 across the decades of segregation, legal and illegal. So grab your hat and your wallet (you’ll probably need cash) and come along for an enlightening trip down America’s memory lane—a westward tour through the nation’s heartland and history, with all the trimmings, via Route 66.

Book SEC Docket

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  • Author : United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1446 pages

Download or read book SEC Docket written by United States. Securities and Exchange Commission and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners  for the State of Missouri  Being for the Year Ending

Download or read book Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners for the State of Missouri Being for the Year Ending written by Missouri. Office of Railroad Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Annual Statistical Report of Contributions and Expenditures Made During the     Election Campaigns for the U S  House of Representatives

Download or read book The Annual Statistical Report of Contributions and Expenditures Made During the Election Campaigns for the U S House of Representatives written by United States. Congress. House. Office of the Clerk and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colleges in the Midwest

Download or read book Colleges in the Midwest written by Peterson's and published by Peterson's. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A directory to colleges found in the Midwestern United States.

Book Publication

Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Winifred Black Annie Laurie and the Making of Modern Nonfiction

Download or read book Winifred Black Annie Laurie and the Making of Modern Nonfiction written by Katherine H. Adams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers--especially the San Francisco Examiner--and in fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote 10,000 short pieces, as well as three books, a nonfiction oeuvre that combined quasi-autobiographical details with characters and scenes to provide cultural analysis for a nationwide audience. She wrote about the realities facing modern women--their work, their marriages and divorces, the violence they endured, their need for independence. Contemporary praise for Black named her "the world's most famous feature writer" and "one of the world's most successful reporters," while her critics affixed the pejorative labels "stunt girl" and "sob sister." This study covers her influential career and gives the first serious attention to her journalism and nonfiction.

Book The Bicentennial of the United States of America

Download or read book The Bicentennial of the United States of America written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: