Download or read book The Yesteryears Me Growing Up written by Verine Talton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women in Mae's family were as fierce as a lioness and ferocious as a leopardess, when it comes to caring of their families and the men who loved them. These women were strong and a little flirty at times, but held strong to their convictions. Teaser: The year was 1898, Bella and Gappy, were my great-great grandparents. They were slaves on Master Barkley's Plantation, in the Southern part of Texas. The slaves had just finished a long hard day in the fields and tending the livestock. They went home for the evening, because the weather seem to be changing quickly. The slaves were feeling uneasy about the way the sky looked, so they hurried home quickly. Once they got home, Bella started to make supper in the kitchen. Gappy was walking back and forth, across the hardwood floor, looking out the windows, at the sky. He was getting a little nervous, because the sky started getting real dark and it started to rain. The wind started blowing so loud and hard, he thought it was going to blow them away. We were all getting real scared and started huddling together. I told Bella, feeling concerned, "a storm is blowing up, and we got to hurry up and get down in the storm cellar, before it gets worse!" The weather started to change outside. Bella and Gappy took their child Nerve, and gathered things to go down in the storm cellar. Bella was pregnant with their second child and had been having stomach pains all day. The pains didn't bother her too much, because she knew the baby wasn't due for another month. We went down in the storm cellar, to ride out the storm with other slaves that lived nearby. Bella always kept it filled with supplies to last us awhile, just for these times. Everyone start getting scared and nervous, so we huddle up real close together. Bella's pains got worse and they started coming closer and closer. The storm outside was getting worse and the wind was blowing with a vengeance. Bella, panting, said to Gappy, "I hope this baby wait till this storm is over, before it gets here." Breathless! She sat in the corner, putting her feet up, holding her stomach and yelling in pain. The women folks put a sheet up with a rope, to close that portion of the cellar off. Gappy and the other men pace the floor, listening for the baby to cry. Some of the men were peeking out the cellar door, every now and then, looking to see what was going on with the weather outside. It was stormy, the rain was coming down hard and the wind was blowing so had, the men folks had to hold the storm door, the keep it closed, while looking out. One of the slave said, shackling said, "It's got to be a tornado coming, wind don't blow that hard for nothing!" Bella, cried out to the other women, "I thought we had more time before this baby got here." Panting. It seems her pains were getting closer and the pains were getting harder. Gappy said sadly. "Guess it's time for that baby to make its way into this troubled world, we was living in." After a long time of waiting. Bella started hollering real loud and gave one last push, then finally, she gave birth to my Great-grand momma, 'Red'. (Red will be known as Momma from now on, more on that later). She started crying and all the men started hoping and hollering with joy. She had big brown eyes and black curly hair. Everyone forgot about what was going on outside for a minute. Before you know it, the storm had finally died down. We went back to our houses.
Download or read book The Snows of Yesteryear written by Gregor Von Rezzori and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of the old nineteenth-century order which had shaped his aristocratic parents and the innovations, uncertainties, and raw terror of the new century. The haunted atmosphere of this dying world is beautifully rendered in the pages of The Snows of Yesteryear. The book is a series of portraits—amused, fond, sometimes appalling—of Rezzori’s family: his hysterical and histrionic mother, disappointed by marriage, destructively obsessed with her children’s health and breeding; his father, a flinty reactionary, whose only real love was hunting; his haughty older sister, fated to die before thirty; his earthy nursemaid, who introduced Rezzori to the power of storytelling and the inevitability of death; and a beloved governess, Bunchy. Telling their stories, Rezzori tells his own, holding his early life to the light like a crystal until it shines for us with a prismatic brilliance.
Download or read book The Hearts of Yesteryear written by Vivien Dean and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2016-08-06 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his career, actor John Paravati has stuck with what he told the gossip rags -- he's been in like, in lust, even in respect once or twice, but never love. All he's ever cared about is performing. If he's stuck now doing commercials for cruise lines, at least it's better than shilling adult diapers. But Hollywood pretends, and John is a master. Because once upon a time, he loved two things more than anything -- his best friend Frank and the movie palace he used as sanctuary. Over fifty years ago, John ran away from his hometown. Now, someone has restored the theater he left behind, and they want John at its relaunch. The memories still sting, but he agrees to attend, even though it means dealing with heartache. At seventy-seven, he's too old to hold onto the hurt. The question is, however, is he too old to start over once it's gone?
Download or read book The Real Yester Years written by Delores Perry-Pearson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Yester Years by Rev. Delores Perry-Pearson
Download or read book Virtues of Yesteryear written by Andrew Knight and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of virtues contains a lifetime collection of stories from a thoughtful, selfless and altruistic giant of a man. An entire lifespan, 85 years of remarkable, crisp memories illuminate, for example, how the vulnerability of youth tempts one to drop out of high school, and how this regret is redeemed later in life. The years in the armed service, purchasing a first home, surviving the Great Depression and retirement are stories that will inspire and renew your belief in self. The challenges associated with leading a virtuous life emerge throughout this memoir, and how one is transformed through the process of reconciliation. In this memoir, the ordinary life becomes an extraordinary one through self-awareness, maturity and a natural inclination to do the right things in life. This memoir will renew your faith in our indomitable will to overcome challenges to lead a life of significance through deeply embedded and enduring moral principles.
Download or read book Yesteryear s Child written by And Rohrbacher Westwood and Rohrbacher and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yesteryear's Child" brings to life a time and place in our collective American past. This is much more than one woman's story. Outdoor privies became indoor plumbing; horse-drawn carriages shared the dusty roads with the first automobiles; and the earliest telephone numbers were single digits. In the tradition of such personal memoirs as "Cheaper by the Dozen" and "I Remember Mama" this delightful tale will evoke memories in the old and wonder in the young.
Download or read book A Bar on Adly Street written by Medhat M Ghabrial and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1971. Egypt is still reeling from the sudden death of its “benevolent” tyrant Nasser and teeters on the precipice of Sadat’s era of unrelenting Islamization. Ghabrial is an engineering graduate student and a TA, moonlighting in an office that operates more as a Marxist political and cultural salon, conveniently located between a famous cabaret and the Cairo Opera House. A frustrated dreamer of bygone eras when poetry and freedoms were sacred, he sees the alarming changes happening in front of his eyes altering his reality for good. Running parallel to the story of a nation in metamorphosis and turmoil is Ghabrial’s troubled love story with Aida, his life-thirsty19 year old student. Their relationship is complicated by many factors controlling that junction of history. Aida says: “Who can remember us 50 years from now, and who can tell what happened to us?” The real heroine of the narrative is Cairo of the early seventies with its night lights and escapes, alleys and bars, especially one underground bar, where the misfits of the city find refuge and salvation against a tremulous backdrop of a national unrest above ground. A Bar on Adly Street is an unflinching first-hand account of an in-between generation in 1970s Egypt whose fathers cherished secular democracy and religious tolerance, while they faced poverty, tyranny, fanaticism and corruption. It carefully layers strata of a life that examines the circumstances that lead to a nation turning against its defenseless minorities. Remnants of Greeks, and Italians, then Copts and even Muslims not subscribing to the MB’s Islamist agenda, all reeling under the new norms and the changing world around them, leaving them with no choice but to run away from home in droves, creating the schism in which the present narrative is at its centre.
Download or read book Short Stories of the Yester Years written by Gigi Mera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an anthology of short stories by the author of The Stories of a Little Town. Some of the stories took place in a remote past in Little River during the colonial times. The tales are fictional with a touch of history. They are purely for entertainment. The stories of “Lillie,” “Family Secrets,” and “An Eye for An Eye” give an account of domestic and social life of slaves the 1700s in Saint-Domingue, Haiti. “An Engagement Party”—this story happened in the course of the American occupation of Hispaniola in the 1920s. “Strangers in our Mist” is a fantasy that invites readers into the world of mysticism and supernatural. This book is just fun to read.
Download or read book we have grown together written by Satyakam Sengupta and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection is arranged into four distinctive layers, viz, love confessions, songs of yesteryears, the world at large and remembrances. The poems are mostly interspersed with my realizations and feelings though certain concepts expressed by my near and dear ones may find a place here and there. My mind has often wandered from one theme to another; the most recurrent being the sweet and sour tribulations of ‘love’, its confessions and the turmoil of this ‘world at large’. The ‘songs of yesteryears’ and ‘remembrances’ are also associated with the passage of time; years of growing up and losses suffered.
Download or read book Yesteryear written by Dorothy Garlock and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irresistible tale of love and passion in the post-Civil-War South from Dorothy Garlock, the award-winning, bestselling author of A Gentle Giving and Sins of Summer. Addie waited four long years for her husband to return from the Civil War, but to no avail. Now deserters and drifters are making her life dangerous . . . until a mysterious stranger shows up to protect her and her children.
Download or read book My City Links written by My City Links and published by My City Links. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making The Most Of A Tough Situation, Step By Small Step For the entire world, the last several months have been all about staying at home and keeping safe from the COVID-19 pandemic. The government has not been taking any chances, enforcing a series of strict measures to contain the spread of the disease. As with any other sudden, unexpected change in the way that people go about their lives, this period too has thrown up multiple challenges. It has been left to individuals, and families, to decide how best to navigate this difficult phase at work or business, and at home.
Download or read book Book Three Products from Under the Old Naseberry Tree written by Hortense M. Jenkins and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many members of the Hall family, a giant naseberry tree near their home in Jamaica served as a dear friend and confidant. It was a place of comfort and discussion, where children learned to mimic adults in speech and lifestyle. In Book Three Products from Under the Old Naseberry Tree, author Hortense M. Jenkins builds recollections of her family’s history, development, and faith around the memory of the naseberry tree. She explores undying love in the midst of strain, disappointment, and the rough edges of life, examining the ups and downs that many of the family encountered along the way. Although the family had few luxuries, they were happy. The family’s children never lost hope; God never gave up on them, and they never left His presence. And as a result of the foundation laid early in their lives, the Hall children excelled in most of their undertakings. Enhanced with scripture references throughout, this personal narrative shares the history of a family and explores the lessons that their growth and faith can teach others.
Download or read book Those Thrilling Yarns of Yesteryear Volume 2 written by Carl "Bud" Paepcke and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second book in a series of thrilling stories, the author vividly describes the soul-stirring details that surround the amazing deeds of some of America's greatest war heroes. You will marvel at the deeds of these exceptional men (and women) who unselfishly risked their lives for you, for our nation and for the freedom of the world. In telling tales of awesome courage, sacrifice and achievement from the American Revolution to the War in Iraq, this Vietnam War veteran and retired G-man proclaims his profound love for America, his rich pride in our nation's military, and his strong personal faith in God Almighty.
Download or read book Candlelights for the High School Student s World written by Alice W. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aayush Creations Adult Coloring Book Relax Refresh Rejoice Handmade designs written by Vaishali Mane and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity, passion, and perseverance have been constant companions in my journey to depict, represent, and render the throbbing imaginative narratives that I conceptualized in my mind from time to time. In this collection, I bring together several memories of yesteryears and take you along on my voyage during the past decades through my design and sketches. I have never formally attended any school of fine arts, but I do have my share of inspirations. Aayush, my school-going son, has been a true friend and a source of inspiration. His love, affection, and trust in me have indeed motivated me. His sincere and honest feedback on my creations has helped me improve and better myself. He does have some sparkling contributions to this project. This book is dedicated to my parents for putting up a brave front through all odds and for their sheer efforts in overcoming all hardships and for shaping me into a person that I am today. I hope you enjoy! Happy coloring!
Download or read book A Sweet Footed African James Jibraeel Alhaji written by Alhaji, James Jibraeel and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sweet-Footed African captures the sense of being James Jibraeel Alhaji; the milestones and challenges of his life and his reconciliation with emotions, decisions and circumstances of the past, and hopes for the future. James Jibraeel Alhaji's life is characterized by a diversity of personal ambitions, family commitments and economic motives, which lead him from his home in Cameroon to Cape Town, South Africa. The story situates the context of decisions that characterize the so-called quest for greener pastures, examining personal opportunities, triumphs and challenges before and beyond life as an immigrant in South Africa. The story explores what it means to move and to be mobile in Africa, the networks that fulfil and sustain mobile Africans during times of uncertainty, and the lineage to home that remains eternally active.
Download or read book The Abc S of Values written by Naomi W. Zaslow and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: from womens place being in the home, to &nbs p her place being CEO of corporations; from a struggle &nbs p to succeed in life, to the responsibilities it entails, The &nbs p ABCs of Values deals with ideas and ideals that are &nbs p essential in living life. &nbs p The transformation of society is inevitable, leading to &nbs p an older generations questioning the new. But some ways of interacting with others, keeping reasonable and responsible standards, is vital to living a good and fulfilled life in every generation. The words chosen in The ABCs of Values and their short, insightful evaluation, can encourage contemplation on how to be a better person and live a better life. The book does not pass judgment on the present or glorify the past, but tries to evaluate actions and attitudes that can improve an individual and society. Words abound in todays society, on radio, television, telephone, on iPods and are not necessarily significant. This book takes important or ordinary words and explores their meaning and ways in which they can explain a difficulty, en- courage action, or explore a positive component. Words have meaning, and what they mean can help us lead a better life and be a better person. Each word in the book is accompanied by a famous quotation. Each word is aimed at encouraging the reader to enjoy a happy, successful, life of good humor, good friends, good times, doing good things for yourself and those who share it with you. The ABCs of Values makes it clear that goodness is not always present, but a good attempt at recognizing difficulties and dealing with them makes it possible to live and enjoy a good life.
