The World Through The Dime Store Door

Author : Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320776
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Through the Dime Store Door written by Aileen Kilgore Henderson and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age memoir evoking farm, mining, and small-town life in Alabama's Tuscaloosa County as the world transitions from the Great Depression to World War II In the 1930s, the rural South was in the throes of the Great Depression. Farm life was monotonous and hard, but a timid yet curious teenager thought it worth recording. Aileen Kilgore Henderson kept a chronicle of her family's daily struggles in Tuscaloosa County alongside events in the wider world she gleaned from shortwave radio and the occasional newspaper. She wrote about Howard Hughes's round-the-world flight, her dreams of sitting on the patio of Shepheard's Hotel to watch Lawrence of Arabia ride in from the desert, and her horror at the rise to power in Germany of a bizarre politician named Adolf Hitler. Henderson longed to join the vast world beyond the farm, but feared leaving the refuge of her family and beloved animals. Yet, with her father's encouragement, she did leave, becoming a clerk in the Kress dime store in downtown Tuscaloosa. Despite long workdays and a lengthy bus commute, she continued to record her observations and experiences in her diary, for every day at the dime store was interesting and exciting for an observant young woman who found herself considering new ideas and different points of view. Drawing on her diary entries from the 1930s and early 1940s, Henderson recollects a time of sweeping change for Tuscaloosa and the South. The World through the Dime Store Door is a personal and engaging account of a Southern town and its environs in transition told through the eyes of a poor young woman with only a high school education but gifted with a lively mind and an openness to life.

Author : John M. Giggie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197766668
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Tuesday written by John M. Giggie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling work recovers a neglected episode in the Black community's long struggle for full citizenship when police and Klansmen stormed First African Baptist Church and brutalized over 600 unarmed protestors preparing to march for freedom. Bloody Tuesday, as Tuscaloosa residents called the day, is one of the most violent episodes in the civil rights movement.

Author : Clarice J. Pugh
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1602478287
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Through Lace Curtained Windows written by Clarice J. Pugh and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words 'mentally retarded' carry a sense of helplessness, hopelessness and fear. In The World Through Lace Curtained Windows, Clarice Pugh tells the story of how her parents faced this challenge when they chose to care for their retarded son at home. This is story of faith and trying to find God's purpose in a world of heartache and seemingly unanswered prayer, yet also a story of a family's love for their own. Covering the period of time from The Great Depression to the war in Vietnam, The World Through Lace Curtained Windows reaches out to those in every community, who every day have or currently are facing unique family challenges with courage and faith.

Author : Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817321330
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Wolf Camped at Our Door written by Aileen Kilgore Henderson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar meets an ottomobeel -- Alma's dime -- Friends again -- Mama prevents murder -- Ichabod gets lost -- Home remedies -- Summer of decision -- Thanksgiving day -- Mary Alice goes into business -- Miss know-it-all -- Summer nights after supper -- The Howton Horror -- Shangri-la -- Aileen falls by the wayside -- A visit from the Detroit cousins -- The KKK checks up on Big Hurricane Baptist -- Depression wedding -- Uncle Joe and the King of England -- Virgie's grandmother -- Granny Price's birthday celebration -- Mrs. Prude and her sons -- Belle -- Teensy's family -- Uncle Nat helps raise a submarine -- Aileen discovers football -- A movie star thrill -- Magic at the new Bama Theatre.

Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813128313
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plum Thicket written by Janice Holt Giles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1954 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After the success of her historical novel The Kentuckians in 1953, she planned to write a second frontier romance. But a visit to Altus caused her imagination to drift from Kentucky in 1780 to western Arkansas in 1913. At age forty-eight -- the same age as Giles at the writing of the novel -- the heroine Katie Rogers recalls her first visit alone to her grandparent's home in Stanwick, Arkansas. Eight-year-old Katie spends her summer climbing the huge mulberry tree and walking with her wise grandfather, a veteran of bloody Shiloh. She is fascinated, not frightened, by the grave of an unknown child in the nearby plum thicket. Throughout the visit Katie helps Aunt Maggie plan her wedding and looks forward to the three-day Confederate Reunion. But the Reunion -- and the summer -- end violently, as guilt, repression, and miscegenation are unearthed. "That summer was the end of a whole way of life," Katie realizes, for she can never again dwell in the paradise of childhood. In Katie Rogers, Giles voiced her own lament for "the beautiful and the unrecoverable past." To her publisher Giles wrote, "Out of my forty-odd years of living, much of whatever wisdom I have acquired has been distilled into this book." This new edition of The Plum Thicket gives Giles's many fans a powerful, moving glimpse into the mind and heart of this beloved author. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.

Author : Bob Blanchard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467152293
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Burlington, Vermont written by Bob Blanchard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Burlington was first settled over two centuries ago it has seen the establishment of a rich historic and architectural legacy, much of which has been lost. The Strong and State Theaters, St. Paul's Cathedral, Converse School, Cathedral High School, and a neighborhood lost to urban renewal are just of few of the landmarks that still live within the memories of many who grew up in the Burlington area. The industrial waterfront, the clubhouses of the Lake Champlain Yacht Club, and the Overlake Estate are now a distant memory. Local historian Robert Blanchard reveals the stories of how these and over sixty other lost treasures came to be built, their roles in the city's life, and how they met their end.

Author : Bryan Johnston
Publisher : CamCat Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0744305330
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Warrant written by Bryan Johnston and published by CamCat Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Makes Great TV. Frankie Percival is cashing in her chips. To save her brother from financial ruin, Frankie—a single stage performer and mentalist who never made it big—agrees to be assassinated on the most popular television show on the planet: Death Warrant. Once she signs her life away, her memory is wiped clean of the agreement, leaving her with no idea she will soon be killed spectacularly for global entertainment. After years of working in low-rent theaters, Frankie prepares for the biggest performance of her life as her Death Warrant assassin closes in on her. Every person she encounters could be her killer. Every day could be her last. She could be a star, if only she lives that long.

Author : Will Kalinke
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426954115
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memorabilia and Memories Shared written by Will Kalinke and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandparents want to leave some memories for their grandchildren, but may have a difficult time reading or writing. Memorabilia and Memories Shared offers assistance to them and to their grandchildren. Intended to be read together, it seeks to job important memories of times gone by. Guided questions will help grandparents and grandchildren to collaborate in creating a verbal or written account of those precious memories. In an example of this method, author Will Kalinke has written his fondest memories in Memorabilia and Memories Shared with the hope that others will do the same thing. After you've dabbled with this book, you should be ready to try to write your own treasured memories for your loved ones. Record your memories for the generations to come. Focus on exploring, creating, expanding, and recording important memories to offer a bit of yourself, a true legacy, for posterity. It is more important to capture memorabilia and memories and that of loved ones-today, before it is too late.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Judge written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jens Beckert
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415286735
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology written by Jens Beckert and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with the multiple and complex relations between economy and society, this encyclopedia focuses on the impact of social, political, and cultural factors on economic behaviour. It is useful for students and researchers in sociology, economics, political science, and also business, organization, and management studies.