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Download Sweet Betsy That's Me PDF

Sweet Betsy That's Me

Author : Michael R. Zomber
Publisher : iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-09-21
ISBN 10 : 9781440163241
Pages : 116 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (44 users)

Download Sweet Betsy That's Me PDF Full or another Format written by Michael R. Zomber and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War is seen through the unclouded vision of an eight year old girl living in western Kentucky. Betsy Johnson speaks about the war, President Lincoln, General Grant, God, the slavery question, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Medal of Honor, and her family. Her poignant and cogent observations make this a unique volume that will appeal to children of all ages. With authentic detail and a refreshing perspective, Sweet Betsy, will capture the hearts of readers everywhere.


Download Meaning a Life: an Autobiography PDF

Meaning a Life: an Autobiography

Author : Mary Oppen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2020-04-28
ISBN 10 : 9780811229487
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (811 users)

Download Meaning a Life: an Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Mary Oppen and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of twentieth-century American autobiography now back in print with previously unpublished material from the author’s archive First published in 1978, Mary Oppen’s seminal Meaning a Life has been largely unavailable for decades. Written in her sixties, her first and only prose book recounts, with honesty, depth, and conviction, her fiercely independent life—“a twentieth-century American romance,” as Yang describes it in the new introduction, “of consciousness on the open road; a book of travel where the autobiographer is not the usual singular self at the center of the story but the union of two individuals.” Oppen tells the story of growing up with three brothers in the frontier towns of Kalispell, Montana, and Grants Pass, Oregon, determined to escape the trap of “a meaningless life with birth and death in a biological repetition.” That escape happens in the fall of 1926, when she meets another student in her college poetry class, George Oppen. She is expelled for breaking curfew, and from then on the two face the world intertwined: living a life of conversation, hitchhiking across the US, sailing from the Great Lakes to New York City, meeting fellow poets and artists, starting a small press with Zukofsky and Pound, traveling by horse and cart through France, and fighting fascism through the Great Depression. Mary Oppen writes movingly of both her inner life and external events, of the inconsolable pain of suffering multiple stillbirths, of her husband fighting on the front lines during WWII while she struggled to care for their baby daughter, of fleeing to Mexico to avoid persecution for their political activities. This expanded edition includes a new section of prose and poetry that deepens Oppen’s radiantly incisive memoir with further memories, travels, and reflections.


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Hear America Sing

Author : Earl Martin Pedersen
Publisher :
Release Date : 1990
ISBN 10 : UCSD:31822037138500
Pages : 332 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (31 users)

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Play Me Something Quick and Devilish

Author : Howard Wight Marshall
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2013-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9780826272935
Pages : 386 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (826 users)

Download Play Me Something Quick and Devilish PDF Full or another Format written by Howard Wight Marshall and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play Me Something Quick and Devilish explores the heritage of traditional fiddle music in Missouri. Howard Wight Marshall considers the place of homemade music in people’s lives across social and ethnic communities from the late 1700s to the World War I years and into the early 1920s. This exceptionally important and complex period provided the foundations in history and settlement for the evolution of today’s old-time fiddling. Beginning with the French villages on the Mississippi River, Marshall leads us chronologically through the settlement of the state and how these communities established our cultural heritage. Other core populations include the “Old Stock Americans” (primarily Scotch-Irish from Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia), African Americans, German-speaking immigrants, people with American Indian ancestry (focusing on Cherokee families dating from the Trail of Tears in the 1830s), and Irish railroad workers in the post–Civil War period. These are the primary communities whose fiddle and dance traditions came together on the Missouri frontier to cultivate the bounty of old-time fiddling enjoyed today. Marshall also investigates themes in the continuing evolution of fiddle traditions. These themes include the use of the violin in Westward migration, in the Civil War years, and in the railroad boom that changed history. Of course, musical tastes shift over time, and the rise of music literacy in the late Victorian period, as evidenced by the brass band movement and immigrant music teachers in small towns, affected fiddling. The contributions of music publishing as well as the surprising importance of ragtime and early jazz also had profound effects. Much of the old-time fiddlers’ repertory arises not from the inherited reels, jigs, and hornpipes from the British Isles, nor from the waltzes, schottisches, and polkas from the Continent, but from the prolific pens of Tin Pan Alley. Marshall also examines regional styles in Missouri fiddling and comments on the future of this time-honored, and changing, tradition. Documentary in nature, this social history draws on various academic disciplines and oral histories recorded in Marshall’s forty-some years of research and field experience. Historians, music aficionados, and lay people interested in Missouri folk heritage—as well as fiddlers, of course—will find Play Me Something Quick and Devilish an entertaining and enlightening read. With 39 tunes, the enclosed Voyager Records companion CD includes a historic sampler of Missouri fiddlers and styles from 1955 to 2012. A media kit is available here: press.umsystem.edu/pages/PlayMeSomethingQuickandDevilish.aspx


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Boys' Life

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1957-05
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 84 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)

Download Boys' Life PDF Full or another Format written by and published by . This book was released on 1957-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.


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Sweet Summer

Author : Ann Maxine Nivens
Publisher : WestBowPress
Release Date : 2013-11-01
ISBN 10 : 9781490812113
Pages : 236 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (49 users)

Download Sweet Summer PDF Full or another Format written by Ann Maxine Nivens and published by WestBowPress. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Aura continued to dance in the moonlight, Patrick leaned against the doorway and pondered the mood of the night. He was six and felt very big indeed. He wondered if he was old enough to have a sweetheart. “Pappy, am I old enough to court?” “Not quite, son! Why?” “Well, sir, I think that girl is going to be my sweetheart!” So begins the lifelong love between Aura Blake and Patrick Garner. Soon afterward, Aura finds herself orphaned at age six, and she and Pat are separated for much of their childhood as Aura endures bitter mistreatment and isolation at the hands of extended family members. When God, in His providence, brings Aura into kinder surroundings and the two childhood sweethearts back in touch, their little spark from long ago blazes into an epic love. This love story, inspired by the author’s own parents, follows Aura in her fight for survival, anchored by her deep faith in God, and Pat in his quest to find himself and God, as he wrestles with the impact of his failing health on his passionate adventures in the great outdoors. Together, Patrick and Aura face unspeakable tragedies that would destroy most loves and lives. Yet in the end, both find their place in the world as their love proves unquenchable and their faith unshakable.


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A Cottage in Akin

Author : Muriel McAvoy Morley
Publisher : Inspiring Voices
Release Date : 2013-12-17
ISBN 10 : 9781462407651
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (462 users)

Download A Cottage in Akin PDF Full or another Format written by Muriel McAvoy Morley and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel, A Cottage in Akin, is fifty-nine-year-old Ponia Snow’s reminiscent and pivotal story of life in the small northeastern Colorado town of Akin. Odessa Luckett—poet, storyteller, gardener extraordinaire, and woman of faith—transforms Ponia’s life forever through exemplifying God’s love, mercy, and forgiveness. Had it not been for that dear old woman, Ponia may not have survived, nor would she have traced the God-ordained design for her life.


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LIFE

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1960-08-22
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 102 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)

Download LIFE PDF Full or another Format written by and published by . This book was released on 1960-08-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.


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Analog

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Release Date : 1994
ISBN 10 : 10592113
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (211 users)

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Analog Science Fiction & Fact

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Release Date : 1994
ISBN 10 : UCSC:32106013678906
Pages : 1076 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (32 users)

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Soldier, Spy, Heroine

Author : Debra Ann Pawlak
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2017-01-24
ISBN 10 : 9781631581090
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (631 users)

Download Soldier, Spy, Heroine PDF Full or another Format written by Debra Ann Pawlak and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Woman Who Fooled the Yankees and Rebels Alike. As a child, Sarah Emma Edmonds dreamed of faraway places and adventure, often picturing herself as a man. When her abusive father traded her hand in marriage for a few head of livestock, she fled their farm and took on the identity of traveling salesman Franklin Thompson eventually settling in Flint, Michigan. There, as Thompson, she joined Company F of the Second Michigan Volunteer Infantry and distinguished herself as a true Civil War hero. In between the First Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Yorktown, the Battle of Williamsburg, and the Battle of Fair Oaks/Seven Pines, Thompson nursed the sick and wounded, carried the mail across dangerous terrain, and became one of the Secret Service’s first spies. Using various disguises including that of a former slave and an Irish peddler woman, Thompson infiltrated enemy lines and stole vital information from the Rebels until a severe case of malaria took its toll. Knowing that the medical attention she needed would reveal her carefully kept secret, she unwillingly deserted the Union Army in 1863. But Sarah Emma Edmonds wasn’t finished. She had a soldier’s pension to fight for and an honorable discharge to claim. Almost a decade after the war was over, she came forward and asked the astonished men she served with for their help in clearing the name of Franklin Thompson. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.


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Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1961-04
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105011417891
Pages : 826 pages
Rating : 4.D/5 ( users)

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The Year's Best Science Fiction

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1995
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105010679772
Pages : 648 pages
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Civil War Angel

Author : Gary Lavetta
Publisher :
Release Date : 1987-12
ISBN 10 : 0961895101
Pages : 132 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (895 users)

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Widows by the Thousand

Author : M. Jane Johansson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
ISBN 10 : 1557288410
Pages : 362 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (288 users)

Download Widows by the Thousand PDF Full or another Format written by M. Jane Johansson and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of letters written between Theophilus and Harriet Perry during the Civil War provides an intimate, firsthand account of the effect of the war on one young couple. Perry was an officer with the 28th Texas Cavalry, a unit that campaigned in Arkansas and Louisiana as part of the division known as ""Walker's Greyhounds."" His letters describe his service in a highly literate style that is unusual for Confederate accounts. He documents a number of important events, including his experiences as a detached officer in Arkansas in the winter of 1862-63, the attempt to relieve the siege of Vicksburg, mutiny in his regiment, and the Red River campaign, just before he was killed in the battle of Pleasant Hill. Harriet's writings allow the reader to witness the everyday life of an upper-class woman enduring home front deprivations, facing the hardships and fears of childbearing and childrearing alone, and coping with other challenges resulting from her husband's absence.


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The Ladies' Home Journal

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1894
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015012341601
Pages : 454 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)

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A Maryland Bride in the Deep South

Author : Kimberly Harrison
Publisher : LSU Press
Release Date : 2006-04-28
ISBN 10 : 9780807131435
Pages : 406 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (87 users)

Download A Maryland Bride in the Deep South PDF Full or another Format written by Kimberly Harrison and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They say I'm a Yankee -- but if wanting peace is Yankee -- then I am one. I am tired of Disunion of husband & wife." In 1858, nineteen-year-old Priscilla "Mittie" Munnikhuysen began a new diary that saw her marry, leave her family in the genteel Protestant seaboard culture of Chesapeake Bay, and take up residence with her wealthy husband, Howard Bond, in the frontier plantation society of Catholicsouth Louisiana. By 1865, Priscilla Bond had witnessed trials and disillusionments enough to fill a two-volume journal: her father-in-law's brutality toward his slaves; her husband's alleged ambush of Union soldiers and subsequent flight from home; the retaliatory burning of the family's sugar plantation in Houma; and the losses, horrors, and daily depredations of war.Published here for the first time, with extensive notes and a critical introduction by Kimberly Harrison, Bond's intimate writings illuminate the Civil War's impact on women, families, and individual identities. Occasionally Bond records her experiences for the benefit of later readers, but more often she uses her diary to carve a space and time for self-reflection, self-instruction, and self-persuasion. Nineteenth-century women's lives were defined by their relation to others -- as wife, mother, daughter, and sister -- and keeping a diary allowed Bond to claim time for herself. It served as a rhetorical tool that helped motivate her to conform to contemporary standards of "true womanhood," adapt to a harsh new environment, and survive the collapse of a civilization. Harrison's interpretive commentary enables readers to appreciate the context within which Bond writes even as entries about everything from marital anguish to in-law difficulties to religious struggles to failing health bring Priscilla Bond uniquely and movingly to life. Her diary, deftly cross-referenced with numerous letters, adds a valuable and enriching layer of complexity to the larger story of the Civil War home front.


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