Memories Of The Mansion

Author : Sandra D. Deal
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820348597
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of the Mansion written by Sandra D. Deal and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed by Atlanta architect A. Thomas Bradbury and opened in 1968, the mansion has been home to eight first families and houses a distinguished collection of American art and antiques. Often called “the people’s house,” the mansion is always on display, always serving the public. Memories of the Mansion tells the story of the Georgia Governor’s Mansion—what preceded it and how it came to be as well as the stories of the people who have lived and worked here since its opening in 1968. The authors worked closely with the former first families (Maddox, Carter, Busbee, Harris, Miller, Barnes, Perdue, and Deal) to capture behind-the-scenes anecdotes of what life was like in the state’s most public house. This richly illustrated book not only documents this extraordinary place and the people who have lived and worked here, but it will also help ensure the preservation of this historic resource so that it may continue to serve the state and its people.

Author : Phil Bryant
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496826388
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mississippi Governor's Mansion written by Phil Bryant and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcoming its first executive in 1842, the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion is the second-oldest continuously occupied governor’s residence in the United States. The Mansion is both a public building open for tours and the private residence of the governor and his family. In this unique book, readers are invited to explore the entirety of the building, from the attic to the garage and everything in between. The Mississippi Governor’s Mansion: Memories of the People’s Home is the first book of its kind dedicated to images and stories about the Governor’s Mansion. The volume reveals Governor Phil Bryant’s profound respect for the office he holds and his deep appreciation for the National Historic Landmark in which he resides. Through his personal, often touching reflections, Governor Bryant pays tribute to former governors, their families, and the many public servants who have dedicated their lives to taking care of this beautiful Greek Revival masterpiece. More than sixty elegant watercolor paintings by noted Mississippi artist Bill Wilson accompany the governor’s stories. Wilson captures the beauty and majesty of the home, its furnishings, and the restored historic grounds. The volume also features a personal foreword by First Lady Deborah Bryant inviting readers into her home, an artist’s statement by Wilson, and a brief historical essay written by Mansion curator Megan Bankston.

Author : Mary Chapman Mathews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mansion's Memories written by Mary Chapman Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Alice Monroe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439170940
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beach House Memories written by Mary Alice Monroe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale set in the 1970s American South shares the story of Lovie Rutledge, who reflects on a summer during which a beach vacation to escape her unfaithful, disdainful husband culminates in a fateful romance with a handsome biologist.

Author : Linda Goodnight
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373789122
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memory House written by Linda Goodnight and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Honey Ridge, Tennessee, and a house that's rich with secrets but brimming with possibilities. Memories of motherhood and marriage are fresh for Julia Presley--though tragedy took away both years ago. She finds comfort in running the Peach Orchard Inn, then a man and his son come into her life and they both find something in one another that fills deep voids. With the chance discovery of a dusty stack of love letters, the long-dead ghosts of a Civil War romance begin to develop between the two.

Author : Julie Campbell
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307808777
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret of the Mansion: Trixie Belden written by Julie Campbell and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready for fun, adventure, and intrigue with the first book in the iconic mystery series starring the beloved teenage girl detective, Trixie Belden! Trixie can't believe she is stuck in Sleepyside all summer while her two older brothers are away at camp. She is going to be sooo bored. But then a millionaire’s daughter moves in next-door, a runaway kid hides out nearby, and rumors heat up that the old mansion on the hill is filled with a fortune! Maybe the summer won't be so boring after all! Trixie Belden first appeared over fifty years ago in THE SECRET OF THE MANSION, which was followed by other suspense filled adventures as generation after generation of readers grew up with mystery-loving Trixie and her friends. This classic, wholesome series is perfect for the next generation of readers and new fans!

Author : Cinelle Barnes
Publisher : Little A
ISBN 13 : 9781542046138
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monsoon Mansion written by Cinelle Barnes and published by Little A. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age memoir exploring the dark, troubled waters of a family's rise and fall from grace in the Philippines.

Author : Nicole Krauss
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393080366
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great House: A Novel written by Nicole Krauss and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the National Book Award • Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award • A Best Book of the Year as chosen by the New York Times (Notable), Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlantic, St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Oregonian, and Book Page. "Masterful…Evocative and moving." —NPR For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet’s daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer’s life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father’s study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944. Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of Great House make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared. Great House is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change? Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss. "This is a novel about the long journey of a magnificent desk as it travels through the twentieth century from one owner to the next. It is also a novel about love, exile, the defilements of war, and the restorative power of language." —National Book Award citation

Author : Mary Chapman Mathews
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817315357
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mansion's Memories written by Mary Chapman Mathews and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006-10-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging history of The University of Alabama President & rsquo;s Mansion & ldquo;Mathews has done an excellent job in putting on paper the lore of the house she so obviously learned to love. & rdquo; & mdash;Tuscaloosa News & ldquo;The mansion has watched history for more than a century; it has overheard the conversations of its residents and guests; it has seen itself change architecturally on the outside and decoratively on the inside; it has witnessed the destruction of the Civil War, difficulties during both World Wars, and student demonstrations that accompanied the Vietnam War; and it has c.

Author : Carl McQueary
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1585442542
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dining at the Governor's Mansion written by Carl McQueary and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are invited to dine at the Texas Governor’s Mansion, to be the guest of the first ladies and two women governors of the Lone Star State, as they offer (through author Carl McQueary) some of their finest recipes and favorite stories of life in the heart of Austin. The ingredients in Dining at the Governor’s Mansion include one part culinary history and one part social history, along with a generous helping of recipes cooked by Texas first ladies, or (in later years) their personal chefs, from the completion of the Austin mansion in 1856 down to the present. Carl McQueary’s folksy cookbook offers a look at food and its preparation, entertaining at the Mansion, and the challenges the women faced keeping the old home together. It includes brief biographical sketches of the first ladies, who usually orchestrated food service for both family meals and social or political events, and considerable background on the mansion’s infrastructure challenges, interior decoration, landscaping, and restoration. The book also provides an intimate portrait of Texas life during the last century and a half, since the trends in food enjoyed by the governors and their families, especially in their private lives, have been surprisingly similar to those enjoyed by even the humblest of Texas citizens. Most of all, it presents dozens of tasty, appetizing, historic recipes tested by McQueary in his own kitchen and annotated for the contemporary cook. No matter how you slice it up—as Texas history, food history, women’s hisory, or cookbook—Dining at the Governor’s Mansion offers a palate-pleasing smorgasbord for your reading, dining, or gift-giving pleasure.