Our Kinfolks

Author : Ed Krause
Publisher : Parkway Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781933251219
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Kinfolks written by Ed Krause and published by Parkway Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rick Queen, an investigative reporter based in New York, was forced to relocate to Monroe County in the Southern Appalachian mountains. The life of Queen family will never be the same again"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Lisa Alther
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559708326
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinfolks written by Lisa Alther and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling, hilarious memoir, best-selling author ofKinflicks Lisa Alther chronicles her search for the missing--oftenmysterious--branches of her family tree.Most of us grow up thinking we know who we are and where we come from. LisaAlther's mother hailed from New York, her father from Virginia, and everyday they reenacted the Civil War at home in East Tennessee. Then one nighta grizzled babysitter with brown teeth told Lisa about the Melungeons:six-fingered child-snatchers who hid in cliff caves outside town.Forgetting about these creepy kidnappers until she had a daughter of herown, Lisa learned that the Melungeons were actually a group of dark-skinnedpeople--some with extra thumbs--living in isolated pockets in the South.But who were they? Where did they come from? Were they the descendants ofSir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony, or of shipwrecked Portuguese or Turkishsailors? Or were they the children of European frontiersmen, Africanslaves, and Native Americans? Theories abounded, but no one seemed to knowfor sure.Learning that a cousin had had his extra thumbs removed, Lisa set out todiscover who these mysterious Melungeons really were and why hergrandmother wouldn't let her visit their Virginia relatives. Were thereMelungeons in the family tree? Lisa assembled a hoard of clues over theyears, but DNA testing finally offered answers.Part sidesplitting travelogue, part how--and how not--to climb your familytree, Kinfolks shimmers with wicked humor, illustrating just howwacky and wonderful our human family really is.

Author : Carol B Stack
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786722665
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Our Kin written by Carol B Stack and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This landmark study debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. Here is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto comm"

Author : Nathan Williams
Publisher : Artisan Books
ISBN 13 : 157965665X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kinfolk Home written by Nathan Williams and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller When The Kinfolk Table was published in 2013, it transformed the way readers across the globe thought about small gatherings. In this much-anticipated follow-up, Kinfolk founder Nathan Williams showcases how embracing that same ethos—of slowing down, simplifying your life, and cultivating community—allows you to create a more considered, beautiful, and intimate living space. The Kinfolk Home takes readers inside 35 homes around the world, from the United States, Scandinavia, Japan, and beyond. Some have constructed modern urban homes from blueprints, while others nurture their home’s long history. What all of these spaces have in common is that they’ve been put together carefully, slowly, and with great intention. Featuring inviting photographs and insightful profiles, interviews, and essays, each home tour is guaranteed to inspire.

Author : John Burns
Publisher : Artisan
ISBN 13 : 1648291201
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinfolk Travel written by John Burns and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the art of mindful travel with Kinfolk, the pioneers in “slow living,” their philosophy of simplicity, authenticity, intentionality and community. With nearly 450,000 copies in print, the Kinfolk series has applied this philosophy to entertaining (The Kinfolk Table), interior design (The Kinfolk Home), and living with nature (The Kinfolk Garden). Now they have turned their attention to “slow travel,” offering readers a road map for planning trips that foster meaningful connections with local people and authentic experiences of local culture. Go museum hopping in Tasmania, or birdwatching in London. Explore the burgeoning fashion community in Dakar. Take a bicycle tour through Idaho, or a train trip from Oslo to Bergen. Drawing on the magazine’s global community of writers and photographers, Kinfolk Travel takes readers to over 20 location across five continents, with travel tips from locals, stunning images, and thoughtful essays.

Author : Dean Elliott Case
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450240887
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinfolks Knives written by Dean Elliott Case and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kinfolks Knives offers an accurate and factual history of Kinfolks Cutlery. Included are four vintage catalogs to aid collectors in the identification and dating of Kinfolks knives, as well as biographies of Kinfolks founders: Russ Case, Tint Champlin, and Dean Case. Also, for the first time, the personal memories of multiple branches of this American cutlery dynasty are included, as well as a foreword by Brad Lockwood. Providing rare insight into Kinfolks and the families involved in its creation and development, Kinfolks Knives is intended to be the most accurate history of the cutlery compiled to date. A timeline of the family and related cutleries is included for quick reference, as well as answers to the most common questions about the company from www.KinfolksInc.com. The mystery of the Jean Case Cutlery Company is at last explained, and many family photographs and recipes are included. We are all connected through Job Case, all kin, and this book may be the history of only one of thirty-two different cutleries our family has started over our 140+ year history in the industry, but it is much more. After decades of feuding and parting ways to start yet another Case-related cutlery, Kinfolks saw three cousins come together to help one another.

Author : Gurney Norman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinfolks written by Gurney Norman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce G. Trigger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521630764
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas written by Bruce G. Trigger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.

Author : Walter N. Lambert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966090437
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinfolks and Custard Pie written by Walter N. Lambert and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kinfolks and Custard Pie is a collection of recipes with stories about the people the author connects to those recipes. It is a look at how things were done in rural East Tennessee in the years in the late 1930's to the late 1940's. The book explores the role of food in the lives of the author and his family. The recipes are arranged according to the seasons. This reflects the life style of the time.

Author : Laurin Porter
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807128794
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orphans' Home written by Laurin Porter and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize--winning playwright, an Emmy-winning television writer, and an Oscar-winning screenwriter of such notable films as To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies, and A Trip to Bountiful, the amazingly versatile Horton Foote has been a force on the American cultural scene for more than fifty years. By critical consensus, Foote's foremost achievement is The Orphans' Home Cycle -- a course of nine independent yet interlocking plays that traces the transformation over twenty-six years of a small-town southern orphan, Horace Robedaux, into a husband, father, and patriarch. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including interviews with Foote, Laurin Porter demonstrates why the author's masterpiece is a unique accomplishment not only in his personal oeuvre but also in the canon of American drama. Set in and near Harrison, Texas, the fictitious counterpart to Foote's native Wharton, and based partly on his father's childhood and his parents' courtship and marriage, the plays introduce two extended families -- those of Horace and his wife, Eliazbeth -- across three generations, as well as numerous townspeople whose lives intertwine with theirs. The result is a wide-ranging, intricate work of interconnected stories reminiscent of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha saga. Porter shows how the small-town southern culture speaks through Horace while she examines the functions of family and community in identity formation. She explains that Foote's signature style -- which replaces stage directions, poetic language, and suspense-driven narratives with sparse, restrained dialogue and seemingly actionless plots -- creates a simmering power by stressing subtext over text, a strategy more often associated with the novel than drama. Similarly, Foote uses recurring character types and motifs, interrelated images and symbols, and parallel and inverted events that reverberate within and among the plays, employing language and structure in innovative ways. In comparing the cycle with the works of William Faulkner and Eugene O'Neill, Porter positions Foote at the intersection of southern literature and American drama. Foote's emphasis, Porter concludes, is not so much on returning home as on leaving it and building a new family, contending that for Foote home is not a place but a geography of the heart. Her definitive Orphans' Home shines much-needed light on an understudied talent and proves Foote's to be a vital American voice.