Download or read book Moonlight on the Mississippi written by Nancy L. Purington and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Purington was born in Scott County, Iowa, where the Mississippi river meets the Wapsipinicon and the channel shifts from north/south to east/west before resuming its meandering course to the gulf. The resulting latitudinal platform expands the radiance of sun and moonlight above myriad reflections and patterns of change. Lock and Dam No. 15, the world's largest roller dam, resists the forces of nature competing to rule the way of water. Opposing wills and alluvial harmonies are illuminated in plane geometry and fluid atmospheres. Purington's aesthetic sensibilities combine medieval perspective and modern art intention with traditional and experimental methods. Indigo, lapis, cobalt, cadmium, gold, silver, palladium, sticks, stones, shells, pearls, and digital photographs express the transformational nature of the Mississippi River experience. When Purington puts color and form to paper, using oil, watercolor, pastel, gouache, and gold leaf to render the countless shapes and shades of a wave ebbing and swelling in the Mississippi, she brings the macrocosm of the river into focus. She helps us to see the endless beauty of the river and to contemplate the mystery of a moment, encouraging us to live, to look closer, again and again. -Jane Milosch, Director, Provenance Research Initiative, Smithsonian institution, Washington, D.C.; former chief curator, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian America Art Museum As an artist, Nancy Purington's very being is centered on the need to create and make order out the emotions engendered by her passion for the beauty of the natural world. Sky, clouds, water, rocks, shells - objects and images gathered, rendered both elemental and elegant. I have always been impressed with Nancy's integrity as an artist. She does not rely on formula, instead relentlessly exploring an idea until it reaches its natural conclusion, sometimes revisiting a work over a period of years. Moonlight on the Mississippi is the culmination of thousands of hours of living by, observing, remembering, dreaming, and otherwise being inspired by the Mississippi River. If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. --Vincent van Gogh -Barbara Christensen Kamp, Director (1989-2012), Muscatine Art Center Moonlight on the Mississippi features over 140 pieces of Nancy Purington's artwork on 125 pages.
Download or read book Moonlight on the Mississippi written by Stephenia H. McGee and published by By The Vine Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lost treasure, a mysterious disappearance, and a deadly family secret—but winning her heart might be the real challenge. Steamboat Captain Camilla Lockhart discovers a handsome stranger on board with an offer he claims she can't refuse. If he thinks she will get involved in another hopeless treasure quest, he's lost his sunbaked mind. Not after what happened to her father. But with her boat falling apart and her crew about to starve, Mr. Gray's unusual proposal might be her only hope. Daniel Gray inherited a host of problems, including a clue that could unlock old family secrets and a treasure that’s long since faded to lore. His father left him with only one name—Lockhart. But when he hires the striking, yet unconventional, steamboat captain to help him navigate the treacherous waters of the Mississippi River, he never expects his heart to get tangled in the currents. With a criminal operation’s net tightening around them, the two must battle against time to uncover a lost family treasure and solve a mysterious disappearance before the men hunting them from the shadows discover the dangerous truth. From an award-winning author of bestselling historical fiction comes a thrilling series of River Romances. The roaring twenties come alive in this captivating romantic adventure filled with love, deception, and high-stakes discovery. If you enjoy clean historical romance with elements of faith, you'll be sure to love this thrilling river journey.
Download or read book Moonlight on the Mississippi written by John Rosamond Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi Moonlight written by Angela Devine and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MISSISSIPPI MOONLIGHT written by Angela Devine and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2017-03-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly is managing her sister’s restaurant while she’s in the hospital, and in order to prepare for a banquet, she’s visiting the home of the most prominent family in town, the Madigans. In addition to preparing the food, Holly also finds herself wide-eyed with surprise when she sees a refined Simon entertaining his guests. Can he really be the same arrogant man who was scowling and shouting at her just a few hours earlier? In his black dinner suit, he’s extremely distinguished and incredibly gorgeous. Despite his earlier behavior, Holly suddenly feels her heart begin to beat wildly!
Download or read book A Mississippi Moonlight written by Vicky Renee Johnson and published by Eloquent Books. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeke Malone is a Mississippi crook who has plenty of money and power. He was raised to believe that Cordella, the woman who seduced and married his great grandfather years ago, put a curse on his family. In his mind, the only way to break that curse is to mix his blood with that of her bloodline. Zeke manipulates Cordella's great grandson, Buford Starling, into handing over his beautiful 15-year-old daughter, Hazel Starling. After Hazel is drugged and wedded to Zeke, she escapes to California, where she thinks she will be safe. Unbeknownst to her, Zeke watches her every move for years, as she is busily raising their daughter, the lovely Chloe Rose. But it turns out that Zeke Malone is not the only Malone who is interested in the Starling family. Chris Malone, Zeke's great nephew, grew up seeing photos of Chloe Rose, and he has his own obsession to deal with. Author Vicky Renee Johnson gets her greatest inspiration from her Irish heritage. Johnson enjoys working as a nurse who specializes in care for the elderly. She grew up in Amory, Mississippi, and that is where she continues to work and write. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/AMississippiMoonlight.htm
Download or read book Mississippi Moon written by Theresa M. Lennon and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is my personal journey and adventures.
Download or read book Stobart written by John Stobart and published by E P Dutton. This book was released on 1985-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty of the celebrated marine artist's paintings capture the rich heritage of the golden era of commercial sailing and the ships, steamboats, whalers, and colorful ports of nineteenth-century America
Download or read book Sleeping by the Mississippi written by Alec Soth and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected "third coast." Soth's richly descriptive, large format color photographs describe an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, his book elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing and reverie. "In the book's forty-six ruthlessly edited pictures," writes Anne Wilkes Tucker, "Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime, learning, art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex... The coherence of the project places Soth's book exactly within the tradition of Walker Evans' American Photographs and Robert Frank's The Americans." Like Frank's classic book, Sleeping by the Mississippi merges a documentary style with a poetic sensibility. The Mississippi is less the subject of the book than its organizing structure. Not bound by a rigid concept or ideology, the series is created out of a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust. This is the third print run and third new cover of a book which has become one of the most highly collected and widely acclaimed photo-books of recent times.
Download or read book Old Times on the Mississippi written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minnesota Mississippi written by Angela Randazzo and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each "McPooch Mail-A-Tale" has an adventure and fun facts about a great state in the USA. Characters include J. Pierpont McPooch, the globe-trotting hound dog, his sassy sidekick, Trixie, and Big Bad Benny, the pirate cat, who is after McPooch's magic suitcase. Send a "postcard" on your travels or your home state to the special children in your life.
Download or read book Reinventing Dixie written by John Bush Jones and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tin Pan Alley, once New York City’s songwriting and recording mecca, issued more than a thousand songs about the American South in the first half of the twentieth century. In Reinventing Dixie, John Bush Jones explores the broad impact of these songs in creating and disseminating the imaginary view of the South as a land of southern belles, gallant gentlemen, and racial harmony. In profiles of Tin Pan Alley’s lyricists and composers, Jones explains how a group of undereducated and untraveled writers—the vast majority of whom were urban northerners or European immigrants— constructed the specific and detailed images of the South used in their song lyrics. In the process of evaluating the origins of Tin Pan Alley’s songbook, Jones analyzes these songwriters’ attitudes about North-South reconciliation, ideals of honor and hospitality, and the recurring theme of the yearning for home. Though a few of the songs employed parody or satire to undercut the vision of a peaceful, romantic South, the majority ignored the realities of racism and poverty in the region. By the end of Tin Pan Alley’s era of cultural prominence in the mid-twentieth century, Jones contends that the work of its writers had cemented the “moonlight and magnolias” myth in the minds of millions of Americans. Reinventing Dixie sheds light on the role of songwriters in forming an idyllic vision of the South that continues to influence the American imagination.
Download or read book Good Night Mississippi written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night Books. This book was released on 2015-04-18 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touching upon some of Mississippi’s most beloved places and attractions, this book includes the Mississippi River, paddleboats, shrimp boats, Mississippi Children’s Museum, Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Vicksburg National Military Park, State Capitol Building, Jackson Zoo, University of Mississippi, college sports teams, local foods, catfish fishing, and more.
Download or read book Life on the Mississippi written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magic and Magnolias written by Vicky Renee Johnson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-04-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremiah Ransom sat by helpless for years as his girls suffered at the hands of Zeke Malone. The spell that had been put in place by Camilla and Liza would soon be broken and Jeremiah would be able to see his beautiful Magnolias, as his so lovingly called them. He would bring them together in their time of need. Jeremiah would not be able to help them alone. Hazel, Alizabeth, Maddilone, and Annabelle would also need the help of the women who had come before them. The fight was not only with Zeke, but also with a ghost from the family's past that refused to stay buried.
Download or read book Midnight on the Mississippi written by Mary Ellis and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midnight on the Mississippi begins the new Secrets of the South Mysteries from bestselling author Mary Ellis. These complex crime dramas follow an investigator's quest to make the world a better place...solving one case at a time. New Orleans—Hunter Galen, a stock and securities broker, suspects his business partner, James Nowak, may be involved in embezzling their clients' money, but he's reluctant to jeopardize their friendship based on suspicion alone. After James turns up dead, Hunter realizes his unwillingness to confront a problem may have cost James his life. Nicki Price, a newly minted PI, intends to solve the stockbroker's murder, recover the missing millions from the client accounts, and establish herself in the career she adores. As she ferrets out fraud and deception at Galen Investments, Hunter's fiancée, Ashley Menard, rubs Nicki the wrong way. Nicki doesn't trust the ostentatious woman with an agenda longer than the Mississippi River. Ashley seems to be hiding something, but is Nicki's growing attraction to Hunter—a suspected murderer—her true reason for disliking Ashley? As they encounter sophisticated shell games, blackmail, and murder, Nicki and Hunter's only option is to turn to God as they search for answers, elude lethal danger, and perhaps discover love along the way.
Download or read book Tall Tales of the Mississippi River written by Dan Titus and published by . This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
