Download or read book Home Town Memories of Grinnell Iowa written by Dave Adkins and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I attended my 55th high school reunion in July of 2012 and was inspired to write Home Town Memories of Grinnell, Iowa. This work is not intended to be an all inclusive, comprehensive, scholarly history with a preoccupation for exact dates, etc. It is simply a personal history, my recollections of the old home town during a limited period in the towns history the 40s, 50s and 60s. I have written in my own way using a flow of words that came to me as I wrote. In a town of 8,000 9,000, as Grinnell was in those days - you eventually get to know and have some contact along the way with most people. My intent was to communicate in simple, straight forward terms and was not concerned about presenting it as a triumph in English language grammar.
Download or read book A Gathering of Extraordinary Individuals Thomas Mack Wilhoite Kenitra American High School Morocco 1956 1976 written by Douglas E. Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are a gathering of extraordinary individuals who met under extraordinary circumstances. Coming of age in a small high school in Morocco decades ago, we have something unique in common, and decades later it has somehow never left us. We are the Sultans of Thomas Mack Wilhoite/Kenitra American High School. Be it the first graduating class of three Seniors in 1956 to the last Class of 1976, our experiences as students were sharply tuned to our environment. We were not strangers in a strange land; we were welcomed by the Moroccan people as if we were visiting relatives. The sights, sounds, tastes and smells of Morocco were absorbed by hundreds of students no matter what span of years we were there. We can all relate, and laugh at, similar experiences of our teenage years growing up in and around Kenitra/Port Lyautey, Mehdia Beach, Rabat, and other nearby military bases. Within this book are the memories of those days as told by the former students and teachers of our school.
Download or read book WHILE JUSTICE SLEEPS written by Jerry Snodgrass and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jake Walker a 66-year-old Vietnam Veteran, former POW, recently a widower, and a retired SWAT Team Commander from the Houston, Texas Police Department moves to the small town of Rockriver, Texas hoping to find peace and quiet. When he was reading the local city Sunday newspaper, he learned about a 40-year-old murder of a prominent businessman and his son. No one has ever been charged with the crime. The local sheriff's department is not sure if it was a murder or murder-suicide. There is a 30,000 thousand-dollar reward for information leading to an arrest for the crime. Jake, along with an old former Marine turned chicken farmer and a good friend of Jake's; retired FBI Special Agent Chet Davis team and investigates the crime. Jake meets Camy Jo Parker the business manager of the local newspaper and along the way; they fall in love with each other. Jake is persuaded to accept the interim job of the county sheriff. The first day on the job as sheriff, a man is discovered murdered along a country road. Jake, along with his three deputies investigate the murder, One of the deputies, Stella Riveria, is the first female and Hispanic hired by the County Sheriff's Department.
Download or read book From the Hill to the Horizon written by Montgomery Bell Academy and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Hill to the Horizon explores 150 years of MBA from the perspective of students, alumni, teachers, and headmasters. Established in 1867 as part of the University of Nashville from a generous gift from the estate of Montgomery Bell, the all-boys school started in downtown Nashville and moved to its current location in 1915. MBA has continued to grow while focusing on its mission of educating boys and making them into men. This book, celebrating 150 years of MBA, includes photos from MBA’s archives, remembrances from alumni, and photos over the years.
Download or read book The Memory of the People written by Andy Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood's pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources. He explores the genesis of customary law in the medieval period; the politics of popular memory; local identities and traditions; gender and custom; literacy, orality and memory; landscape, space and memory; and the legacy of this cultural world for later generations. Drawing from a wealth of sources ranging from legal proceedings and parochial writings to proverbs and estate papers, he shows how custom formed a body of ideas built up generation after generation from localized patterns of cooperation and conflict. This is a unique account of the intimate connection between landscape, place and identity and of how the poorer and middling sort felt about the world around them.
Download or read book Memories of Mountain Home School written by Jesse Carl Stepp and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book MEMORIES OF MOUNTAIN HOME SCHOOL is a personal journey by a former student, a labor of love. Part 1 traces the evolution of the school from a one-room, one-teacher school teaching grades one through eight to become a rural consolidated school teaching a fully accredited high school curriculum, to its sad decline and closure brought about by dramatic socio-economic changes that took place following WWII. The author draws from original sources to capture the role of the school in the lives of early settlers prior to Oklahoma statehood and during the years of rapid settlement and political turmoil following Oklahoma statehood through WWI. It describes dedicated work to continue upgrading the school during the economically static years of the 1920s and the years of brutal economic decline during the Great Depression, to form a fully accredited rural high school. After becoming fully accredited in 1941 Mountain Home School enjoyed its years of greatest achievements during the 1940s. Then decline brought about by rapidly declining population set in in the early 1950s leading to closure of the school in 1958. Part 2 is the personal memories contributed by 56 former Mountain Home School students. Their span the period from the early 1930s to the closure of the school in 1958. These wonderful personal memories convey the spirit and achievements of the school and the spirit and shared values of those who learned there.
Download or read book Goddard School Memories written by Ginny Reeves and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Goddard School Memories, author and historian Ginny Reeves tells the story of the Goddard, Kentucky, common school through its people, giving slices of life from the log field schools to the three-room school. The common school movement, widely regarded as the most significant reform in nineteenth century American education, was developed by Horace Mann of Massachusetts. Mann's goal was to provide free education to all, regardless of wealth, heritage, or class. His theme is from Proverbs 22:6: "Train up a child the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." It was used at Goddard School every day. This comprehensive history of rural education in Kentucky details social, cultural, and educational events, giving state and local curriculum, contracts, teaching methods, textbooks, moonlight schools, and common school requirements. Goddard School Memories has many engaging anecdotes full of adventure, humor, and tragedy. The collection covers tales that range from daring discipline issues with naughty boys putting skunk oil in teachers' coat pockets, turning over outhouses, misplacing tombstones in the cemetery, taking boards from the schoolhouse, and making wooden pistols, to memories of box suppers, plays, and a musical performance by Tom T. Hall before he became a noted county music star, to the celebrated eighth grade graduation events at the neighboring Goddard Methodist Church, to the federal school lunch program that spurred the development of a lunchroom, the electrical wiring of the school, and the building of a cistern Genealogists will be delighted with a list of students who attended Goddard School, listing birth dates and parent names. Short biographies of many teachers are given. Goddard School Memories is a moving portrait of schoolroom stories that preserves the rich educational heritage of Fleming County, Kentucky. 238
Download or read book Register of the University of California written by University of California (1868-1952) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Golden Snapshots written by Askew and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Very funny!" - Joel Schubert, Daily Sun ..."Not your average poetry book. It's GOOD!" - Dave Plowman, Arizona Star "This bloke is crazy. Funny." - Edward Jenkins, The English Journals (UK) This book is built from the author's standup comedy, formed into rhyming verses. (Some more offensive than others.) This novelty read is considered to be a unique, yet twisted example of a comic's take and observance on everyday events. Some believe it to be an insight into a standup comedian's mind, while others view it simply as "good bathroom reading material". Either way, COMEDY SICKNESS promises to be a fine and entertaining book to read - also making an unusual addition to any home library as well. Order your copy today!
Download or read book Drawn from Memory written by Ernest H. Shepard and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chapel of Princeton University written by Richard Stillwell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic guide to one of America's architectural treasures—now with magnificent new color photos and a foreword by Princeton's dean of religious life Like the medieval English cathedrals that inspired it, the Princeton University Chapel is an architectural achievement designed to evoke wonder, awe, and reflection. Richard Stillwell's The Chapel of Princeton University is the essential illustrated guide to this magnificent architectural and cultural landmark. Now with new color photos throughout, The Chapel of Princeton University traces the history of the chapel and describes its architecture, sculpture, woodwork, and furnishings. Stillwell knew the building from its planning stages through its construction, dedication, and long use. In this book, he offers unique insights into the vision of architect Ralph Adams Cram and the artistry of Charles J. Connick, who designed the chapel's breathtaking cycle of stained-glass windows. Stillwell's thoroughly researched account of the glorious stone, wood, and glasswork gives readers and visitors an opportunity to enjoy the chapel as both an aesthetically beautiful structure and a moving religious statement. Stillwell reveals how the building's composition is meant to provide spiritual access to as many seekers as possible and instill in them an extraordinary message of hope. Featuring a foreword by Alison Boden, Princeton's dean of religious life, The Chapel of Princeton University is a guided tour of an inspiring structure that has served as the spiritual home to one of America's leading universities.
Download or read book Stanton written by Grace Brown Galvin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1868, Floridas oldest continually operating high school has been destroyed, rebuilt, moved, and refocused, existing under several namesOld Stanton High School, New Stanton High School, Stanton Vocational High School, and now Stanton College Preparatory School. Campus History Series: Stanton gives a pictorial history of the buildings, faculty, student life, and traditions that have left an indelible mark on African American life in Jacksonville through the years, reflecting also its evolution into a nationally recognized diverse student body of the highest academic caliber. Stantons story, accomplishments, and pride are showcased through photographs obtained from a variety of school records and from generous contributions by alumni, previous staff and faculty, and their families.
Download or read book Commencement written by University of California, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Psychology of Beauty written by Ethel Puffer Howes and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life on High Levels written by Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Girl in Society written by Carleton Britton Case and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pleasures of Memory written by Sarah Winter and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did this nineteenth-century novelist change the way we think? “A fine contribution to the sociology of literature . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Looking at literary history in relation to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens’s serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction but also the school subject we now know as “English.” Sarah Winter shows how Dickens’s serial fiction instigated specific reading practices by reworking the conventions of religious didactic tracts from which most Victorians learned to read. Incorporating an influential associationist psychology of learning founded on the cumulative functioning of memory, Dickens’s serial novels consistently led readers to reflect on their reading as a form of shared experience. Dickens’s celebrity authorship, Winter argues, represented both a successful marketing program for popular fiction and a cultural politics addressed to a politically unaffiliated, social-activist Victorian readership. As late-nineteenth-century educational reforms consolidated British and American readers into “mass” populations served by state school systems, Dickens’s beloved novels came to embody the socially inclusive and humanizing goals of democratic education.
