By The Creek

Author : Geoff Laughton
Publisher : Harmony Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 9781634779456
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By the Creek written by Geoff Laughton and published by Harmony Ink Press. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon-to-be high school junior David Harper hates his family's move to the country. There's nothing to do, and he misses his friends in the city. But he doesn't have a choice. His mother's job is in Mason County now, so David and his mom are too, and he has to make the best of it. At first, the only redeeming feature of David's new home is the swimming hole across the field from his house. Then David meets Benjamin Killinger, and suddenly life stops being so dull. Benjamin is Amish, and cooling off in the swimming hole is one of the few liberties he and his brothers enjoy. A friendship with an English boy is not-but that doesn't stop him and David from getting to know each other, as long as it's on the neutral ground by the creek. After David risks his life to save Benjamin's father, the boys' friendship is tolerated, then accepted. But before long, Benjamin's feelings for David grow beyond the platonic. Benjamin's family and the rest of the community will never allow a love like that, and a secret this big can't stay secret forever....

Author : Nicholas Oldland
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1771380616
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up the Creek written by Nicholas Oldland and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bear, the moose and the beaver are the best of friends, even though they often disagree. On a canoe trip, the trio’s squabbling leads them into rough waters. Can they agree on a plan before it’s too late?

Author : J. T. Glisson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813018463
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creek written by J. T. Glisson and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 1993-05-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I had met only two or three of the neighboring Crackers when I realized that isolation had done something to these people. . . .They have a primal quality against their background of jungle hammock, moss-hung against the tremendous silence of the scrub country. The only ingredients of their lives are the elemental things."--Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, March 1930, in a letter to Alfred S. Dashiell of Scribner's Magazine Except for one extended black family and "one writer from up north," folks from Cross Creek were ornery, independent Crackers, J. T. Glisson writes in this memoir of growing up in the backwoods of north-central Florida. The time spanned the late twenties to the early fifties, and isolation and an abundance of mosquitoes and snakes were their claim to fame. The writer was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. In her 25 years at the Creek, Miz Rawlings was regarded as "That Woman"--warm, high-strung, and simply eccentric. She drove recklessly, smoked in public, and had "black spells." A Pulitzer Prize did little to change her status. In Cross Creek everyone had space to be a character and every character had a title: the meanest, laziest, most pregnant, or best cat fisherman. Describing day-to-day life in unaffected prose, Glisson's portraits include Charley, the fisherman who did his banking in a Prince Albert tobacco can nailed to a tree; Bernie Bass, who spoke "perfect Florida Cracker without polish"; Old Blue, young Jake Glisson's nuisance hog; Aunt Martha Mickens, the matriarch of all the blacks at the Creek (including Henry, the first critic to pass judgment on Jake's drawings); and especially Jake's father, Tom, the man whose wisdom, boundless optimism, and colorful speech figure prominently in Rawlings's Cross Creek. (Of his famous neighbor, Tom once commented that "when she gets her tail up above her head, her brain don't work.") Glisson's own finely detailed pencil and pen-and-ink drawings illustrate these vignettes, and he explains that the idea of earning his living as an artist first came to him when he saw Rawlings's books illustrated with such vivid pictures that he could smell the sawgrass, sweat, and gunpowder of the Creek. No wonder: One edition of The Yearling--the story of a deer and a boy Jake's own age--was illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, who visited Cross Creek and chatted about drawing ("it's a matter of seeing and practice") while eleven-year-old Jake watched him sketch. Tom Glisson died while his son was enrolled in art school in Sarasota; three years later Miz Rawlings died, and an era ended. Today J. T. Glisson lives four and a half miles from the house where he grew up. When there's a breeze from the south, he writes, he sits on his porch and listens to the soft rustling of palmetto fronds, almost embarrassed by the beauty of his memories. J. T. Glisson has been an illustrator, publisher, and businessman

Author : Albert Samuel Gatschet
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368299190
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians written by Albert Samuel Gatschet and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1884.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Withholding Certain Lands from Allotment in the Creek Nation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peggy Prilaman Marxen
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870209582
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farm on Badger Creek written by Peggy Prilaman Marxen and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peggy Prilaman Marxen grew up near the town of Meteor in northwestern Wisconsin’s Sawyer County, isolated by geography yet surrounded by close-knit extended family. Multiple generations of her family witnessed changes to rural Wisconsin that altered the fabric of their lives and the lives of all in their community, including the introduction of new farming techniques, school consolidation, and revolutions in transportation and technology. They supplemented their subsistence herd of dairy cows by hunting, fishing, and selling timber and maple syrup. For many years, her home, like those of her neighbors, lacked indoor plumbing, electricity, and a telephone. As a young child, Peggy attended a one-room schoolhouse and walked, biked, or sledded the three miles to school and back, no matter the weather.

Author : Guy E. Hazen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ... Geology and Ground-water Resources of the Upper Pinal Creek Area, Arizona written by Guy E. Hazen and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Suydam
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338540925X
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Reminiscences of the Mesier Family of Wappingers Creek. Together with a Short History of Zion Church written by Henry Suydam and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Michael Creed Hinderlider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1170 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of Progress of Stream Measurements for the Calendar Year, 1905 written by Michael Creed Hinderlider and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. B. Hutchinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appraisal of Ground-water Resources in the San Antonio Creek Valley, Santa Barbara County, California written by C. B. Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nearly threefold increase in demand for water in the 154-square-mile San Antonio Creek valley in California during the period 1958-77 has increased the potential for overdraft on the ground-water basin. The hydrologic budget for this period showed a perennial yield of about 9,800 acre-feet per year and an annual ground-water discharge of about 11,400 acre-feet per year, comprising net pumpage of 7,100 acre-feet, phreatophyte evapotranspiration of 3,000 acre-feet, and base streamflow of 1 ,300 acre-feet. The base flow in San Antonio Creek could diminish to zero when net pumpage reaches 13,500 acre-feet per year. The environmentally sensitive marshland area of Barka Slough may then become stressed as water normally lost through evapotranspiration is captured by pumpage. The aquifer consists of alluvial valley fill that ranges in thickness from 0 to 3,500 feet. Ground water moves seaward from recharge areas along mountain fronts to a consolidated rock barrier about 5 miles east of the Pacific coast. Upwelling of ground water just east of the barrier has resulted in the 550-acre Barka Slough. Transmissivity of the aquifer ranges from 2,600 to 34,000 feet squared per day, with the lowest values occurring in the central part of the valley where the aquifer is thickest but probably finer grained. The salinity problems are increasing in the agricultural parts of the valley, which is east of the barrier. West of the barrier, stream and ground-water quality is poor, owing to seepage of saline water from the marine shale that underlies the area at shallow depths. A proposed basinwide monitoring program includes 17 water-level sites, 12 water-quality sampling sites, 3 streamflow measuring sites, and periodic infrared aerial photography of Barka Slough. A computer model of the ground-water flow system could be developed to assess the impact of various water-management alternatives.