Download or read book The Last Trolley Stop written by Heber Bouland and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Trolley Stop, Heber Bouland's eyewitness account of the Great Depression, gives a candid and honest examination of a pivotal time in American history. His narrative has humor, the naughty, and the tragic. When President Roosevelt was inaugurated for the first time, Heber Bouland was a few weeks shy of his fifth birthday and too young to understand the many effects of the Great Depression that surrounded him. Bouland lived with his family in Takoma Park, at the northern edge of Washington, DC, a neighborhood of contradictions. A US senator lived there in a fine house. White homebuyers signed agreements not to resell to "coloreds." Seventh-day Adventists, a nationwide religious minority, were dominant there. Yet this privileged, segregated community also included two small poverty-stricken ghettos inhabited by African-Americans—the very "darkies" the whites were so desperate to avoid. Visits to his uncle's small tobacco farm in western Kentucky, where he witnessed toddlers laboring in tobacco fields, gave him a rural perspective of the depression. Bouland saw firsthand the devastating effects of depression era bigotry, religious hypocrisy, and poverty—effects he accepted as a child, but that appalled him as an adult.
Download or read book The Railway Police and The Last Trolley Ride written by Hortense Calisher and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVTwo novellas from award-winning author Hortense Calisher offering very different journeys: the first looking hopefully forward, and the second, into a painful past/divDIV The characters in these two novellas take introspective, poignant excursions both to where they want to be (The Railway Police) and where they have been (The Last Trolley Ride). In the first, a woman with hereditary premature baldness decides to embrace her unadorned head and hopes to start a fresh life without attachments to the trappings of days gone by. In the second, an elderly man with a working replica of a trolley line in his basement reminisces about the fateful last ride he took on that very line many years ago. In both stories, Calisher probes the characters’ senses of isolation from their respective worlds./divDIV/div/div
Download or read book The Phrenologist written by Susan Yaremczuk and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Phineas Crowne was born in Toronto Canadawith a peculiar purple protrusion on his forehead. This curious anomaly sometimes impedes and sometimes accelerates Phineas' emotional and physical development and his navigation through the stages of life. From birth to death Phineas' must contend with his peculiarity and with excruciating headaches that worsen as he ages. Despite his infamous bulge Crowne's rare intelligence catapults him into the world of pseudo medicine. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, while studying under the tutelage of renowned phrenologist Orson Fowler, Phineas Crowne begins what becomes an amazing career in the city of his birth. Through “The Phrenologist” the author enlightens the reader on this lost science by paralleling the thirty seven bumps of the skull with the drama of Phineas' life. The abnormal growth remains a mystery until at the conclusion of the captivating tale the author reveals the shocking truth of the BUMP.
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Download or read book Sleepaway School written by Lee Stringer and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like his brother before him, Stringer was surrendered to foster care, shortly after birth, by his unwed and underemployed mother—a common practice for unmarried women in mid-century America. Less common was that she returned six years later to reclaim her children. Rather than leading to a happy ending, though, this is where Stringer's story begins. The clash of being poor and black in an affluent, largely white New York suburb begins to foment pain and rage which erupts, more often than not, when he is at school. One violent episode results in his expulsion from the sixth grade and his subsequent three-year stint at Hawthorne, the "sleepaway school" of the title. What follows is an intensely personal, American journey: a universal story of childhood where childhood universals are absent. We experience how a child fashions his life out of the materials given to him, however threadbare. This is a "boy-meets-world" story, the chronicle of one child’s struggle simply to be.
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Download or read book An Unplanned Roundtrip written by Arthur O. Klein and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Unplanned Roundtrip recounts author Arthur O. Klein's transition from life in a middle class Jewish home in prewar 1930s Vienna to a new life as an American citizen after serving in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps in 1947. Beginning with the entry of Adolf Hitler into Vienna in March 1938, Klein's memoir details the subsequent separation of his family in August 1938 as he and his father were forced to leave his mother and sister and flee to Luxembourg and their eventual reunion in September 1939. Klein describes moving through France, Spain, Portugal and Cuba before arriving in the U.S. in early 1945, where he was immediately drafted into the U.S. Army. His memoir includes a description of his training as a Special Agent of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps and of his eventual discharge after a serious car accident in West Germany in December 1946.
Download or read book Finding Dorothy written by Elizabeth Letts and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum’s intrepid wife, Maud. “A breathtaking read that will transport you over the rainbow and into the heart of one of America’s most enduring fairy tales.”—Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband’s masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank’s passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book—because she’s the only one left who knows its secrets. But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of “Over the Rainbow,” Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story, from her youth as a suffragette’s daughter to her coming of age as one of the first women in the Ivy League, from her blossoming romance with Frank to the hardscrabble prairie years that inspired The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Judy reminds Maud of a young girl she cared for and tried to help in South Dakota, a dreamer who never got her happy ending. Now, with the young actress under pressure from the studio as well as her ambitious stage mother, Maud resolves to protect her—the way she tried so hard to protect the real Dorothy. The author of two New York Times bestselling nonfiction books, The Eighty-Dollar Champion and The Perfect Horse, Elizabeth Letts is a master at discovering and researching a rich historical story and transforming it into a page-turner. Finding Dorothy is the result of Letts’s journey into the amazing lives of Frank and Maud Baum. Written as fiction but based closely on the truth, Elizabeth Letts’s new book tells a story of love, loss, inspiration, and perseverance, set in America’s heartland. Praise for Finding Dorothy “In some ways reminiscent of Jerry Stahl’s excellent I, Fatty, Letts’ Finding Dorothy combines exhaustive research with expansive imagination, blending history and speculation into a seamless tapestry. . . . It’s a testament to Letts’ skill that she can capture on the page, without benefit of audio, that same emotion we have all felt sometime over the last 80 years while listening to ‘Over the Rainbow.’”—BookPage (starred review)
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Download or read book He Knows written by Frank Payton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a chilly misty morning as our ship, the Mormacsea, approached the port of Buenos Aires. We had been traveling on her for five weeks and undoubtedly were anxious to arrive. Without a doubt there were questions on our minds as the tall buildings of this great metropolis gradually came into view through an overcast sky or perhaps, we were so innocent we didn’t know what questions to ask. This really was the beginning of a great adventure and we had absolutely no idea what was before us. However, God knew. He knew all along why He was sending us to this new land, this new language, this new culture and yes, this new to us Salvation Army. As we write this we can look back and are grateful that God had a long-term plan for us. It is a good thing that we didn’t know then what God knew. We would probably have shrunk from what He had in mind. But because He knew, He gradually prepared us step by step and didn’t require from us anything until He had prepared us for it.
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Download or read book Bluffton written by Matt Phelan and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scott O'Dell Award-winning graphic artist visualizes the story of young Henry, who in 1908 Muskegon, Michigan, bonds with a young Buster Keaton over games of baseball while the latter summers locally with a troupe of vaudeville performers.
Download or read book The Art of Revising Poetry written by Charles Finn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using side-by-side pairings of first drafts and final versions, including full-page reproductions from the poets' personal notebooks, as well as an insightful essay on each poem's journey from start to finish, The Art of Revising Poetry tracks the creative process of twenty-one of the United States' most influential poets as they struggle over a single word, line break, or thought. This behind-the-scenes look into the creative minds of working poets, including African American, Latino, Asian American, and Native poets from across the US, is an essential resource for students practicing poetry, and for instructors looking to enliven the classroom with real world examples. Students learn first-hand from the deft revisions working poets make, while poetry teachers can show in detail how experienced poets self-edit, tinker, cut, rearrange, and craft a poem. The Art of Revising Poetry is a must-have for aspiring poets and poetry teachers at all levels.
Download or read book MTV Best of Mexico written by Sara Lieber and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-10-08 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the inside scoop on Mexico. From beach parties on Cozumel and nightclubs in nonstop Mexico City to diving with sharks in Baja, MTV Best of Mexico shows you where you want to be, with choices for every budget to help you travel the way you want to. Alternative accommodations. Stay everywhere from a mega resort in Puerto Vallarta to a treehouse-inspired hotel in Playa del Carmen to one of the country's many open-air palapas. Cheap eats. Fuel up with bar-friendly snacks like tacos and tamales, sample cheap seafood at beachside loncherias, or splurge on a restaurant serving traditional mole. Great clubs, bars & hangouts. Find out where to go to listen to live mariachi music, groove to salsa, and chill with locals in town plazas. Offbeat attractions, world-class arts & adrenaline adventures. From paintings by Kahlo and Rivera and ancient Mayan ruins to cenote diving and race car driving, you'll discover Mexico's finest gems.
Download or read book Fodor s San Diego 2007 written by Fodor's and published by Fodor's. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Diego is one of the top U.S. travel destinations, and more than any of its competitors, its appeal is across the generations. Fodor's San Diego covers all the urban experiences that sophisticated adults seek out in the 7th largest U.S. city as well as the blockbuster attractions--- SeaWorld, the San Diego Zoo, the Wild Animal Park---that draw children with their parents willingly in tow. Now updated annually, the 2007 Fodor's edition goes on sale in November 2006 with stunning color photos up front and a fold-out map in the back.
Download or read book Three to a Loaf written by Michael J. Goodspeed and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three to a Loaf is the page-turning drama of a young Anglo-German Canadian smuggled into Germany during the First World War to discover the Imperial General Staff's top-secret plan to break the deadlock on the Western Front.
Download or read book 100 Things to Do in Lincoln Before You Die written by Gretchen M. Garrison and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named in honor of our 16th president, Lincoln was built to be Nebraska’s capital in 1867. Considered a “big small town,” at around 300,000 people, this city retains its friendly atmosphere. With a vibrant arts scene and the advantages of being a university town, Lincoln is in the middle of everything. With 100 Things to Do in Lincoln Before You Die as your guide, you’ll find insider tips and interesting itineraries to help you make the most of your next visit. Try the specialty German beef and cabbage sandwich at Runza or bite into a gourmet burger at Honest Abe’s, a local chain that honors the president. Attend the outdoor music concerts that now attract international performers at the Sheldon Sculpture Gardens. Spin the wheels at the National Museum of Roller Skating or tour the only tractor testing facility in North America at Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum. Local author Gretchen Garrison offers you her insight on this tour of her hometown. With her expert advice, you’ll find more than a hundred things to do in Nebraska’s second largest city.
