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Author : Jerry L. Haynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 159571166X
Author : Jerry L. Haynes
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595401246
Author : George G. Suggs
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814330355
Baseball. religion. work. death. and the company store-these figured eminently in the lives of Southern cotton mill workers and their families during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this firsthand account of his native Bladenboro, North Carolina, George G. Suggs, Jr., captures in rich detail the world of a thriving cotton mill town where the company was dominant but workers had forged a strong community. Here the focus is on the workers-their interests, personalities, and values-in their best and in their darker moments. Ultimately we see the many dimensions of working-class culture and taste a way of life that has vanished. Drawing upon childhood memories and his father's recollections, Suggs covers events in Bladenboro during the 1930s and 40s. He describes the nature of cottonmill work, the stresses and strains produced by undesirable working conditions, and the various ways in which workers and their families learned to cope. Many characters emerge from this story-from the kind woman who dispensed the company fiat money to the desperate men who would gamble it away. The book explores key topics such as social rankings, medical care, the company store, and workers' responses to death. Above all, we see how faith found expression on the job and in the surrounding evangelical churches. The workers of Bladenboro are gone, and little remains of the mills, but this work pays tribute to lives well lived under the most challenging circumstances.
Author : Jerry L. Haynes
Publisher : Word Association Publishers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781595717696
The old adage says ¿A watched pot never boils¿, but I feel there are also times when ¿An unwatched pot always boils over¿. Such was the case in Carroll County, Virginia at the turn of the twentieth century. By 1900 the water was simmering between the mostly Democratic Allens and the Republican led court system. Cries of illegalities from the Allens against the court officials were met with claims of Allen bullying that led to unfulfilled jail sentences. Heat was turned up in 1911 when nephews of the Allens were involved in a fight that ordinarily would have been interpreted as ¿boys being boys¿. Instead numerous charges were brought against the nephews, while no charges were brought by the parties that initiated the skirmish. The water reached a boiling point when the nephews were extradited in a manner in which the Allens felt was improper. New charges of interfering with the duties of an officer then resulted in numerous charges against the Allen men themselves. Although the Allens, and the court officials, had been in hot water before, it took a March day in 1912 for the pot to boil over and become what will forever be known as ¿The Carroll County Shootout¿. This is the story of the aftermath of that shooting. Follow Jeremiah Haynes, a Richmond journalist, as he comes to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to ¿find the truth,¿ a truth that no one wanted told.
Author : Jacquelyn Dowd Hall,James L. Leloudis,Robert R. Korstad,Mary Murphy,Lu Ann Jones
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807882948
Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice
Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487522513
Craig Heron is one of Canada's leading labour historians. Drawing together fifteen of Heron's new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of issues, including politics, culture, gender, wage-earning, and union organization. A timely contribution to the evolving field of labour studies in Canada, this cohesive collection of essays analyzes the daily experiences of people working across Canada over more than two hundred years. Honest in its depictions of the historical complexities of daily life, Working Lives raises issues in the writing of Canadian working-class history, especially "working-class realism" and how it is eventually inscribed into Canada's public history. Thoughtfully reflecting on the ways in which workers interact with the past, Heron discusses the important role historians and museums play in remembering the adversity and milestones experienced by Canada's working class.
Author : Jacinta da Cruz Rodgers
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781973654940
Come with Jacinta to experience the challenges of growing up in an orphanage, where the word “love” was never heard and discipline was the guide and terror of an orphan. Follow her to her first missionary mission in a remote part of Brazil, where dedication grew stronger amidst the challenges. Enjoy the adventure of traveling to Bonaire – the island of the flamingoes. Be ready to take off to a small country, called Swaziland in the dark continent of Africa, where driving is on the left side of the road, where customs sparkle with colors of black and red and the language is SiSwati. Meet the green mamba – the snake always willing to bite you just for being in its territory. Witness one passing by while Jacinta and her husband exchanged their vows at their outside wedding. Travel with her to Israel and feel the vibration of all the religions of the world; where all began and where all will end. Follow her to another call – this time to the regions beyond civilization – the jungles of Brazil, and more by reading Joy Came in the Dawn of a New Day.
Author : Bruce Dorsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197633090
A master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first "crime of the century"--from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial--and its aftermath. In December 1832 a farmer found the body of a young, pregnant woman hanging near a haystack outside a New England mill town. When news spread that Methodist preacher Ephraim Avery was accused of murdering Sarah Maria Cornell, a factory worker, the case gave the public everything they found irresistible: sexually charged violence, adultery, the hypocrisy of a church leader, secrecy and mystery, and suspicions of insanity. Murder in a Mill Town tells the story of how a local crime quickly turned into a national scandal that became America's first "trial of the century." After her death--after she became the country's most notorious "factory girl"--Cornell's choices about work, survival, and personal freedom became enmeshed in stories that Americans told themselves about their new world of industry and women's labor and the power of religion in the early republic. Writers penned seduction tales, true-crime narratives, detective stories, political screeds, songs, poems, and melodramatic plays about the lurid scandal. As trial witnesses, ordinary people gave testimony that revealed rapidly changing times. As the controversy of Cornell's murder spread beyond the courtroom, the public eagerly devoured narratives of moral deviance, abortion, suicide, mobs, "fake news," and conspiracy politics. Long after the jury's verdict, the nation refused to let the scandal go. A meticulously reconstructed historical whodunit, Murder in a Mill Town exposes the troublesome workings of criminal justice in the young democracy and the rise of a sensational popular culture.
Author : Carl Weast
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438984339
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Church history
ISBN : UIUC:30112073545821
Author : Jean Shepherd
Publisher : Crown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307768735
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox. The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street. This edition of A Christmas Story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is young Ralphie Parker’s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father’s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie’s duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie’s unstoppable campaign to get Santa—or anyone else—to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”? The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heart and tickle the funny bone.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Missions
ISBN : WISC:89064897416
Includes the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society.
Author : Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520940222
Hollywood in the Neighborhood presents a vivid new picture of how movies entered the American heartland—the thousands of smaller cities, towns, and villages far from the East and West Coast film centers. Using a broad range of research sources, essays from scholars including Richard Abel, Robert Allen, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Terry Lindvall, and Greg Waller examine in detail the social and cultural changes this new form of entertainment brought to towns from Gastonia, North Carolina to Placerville, California, and from Norfolk, Virginia to rural Ontario and beyond. Emphasizing the roles of local exhibitors, neighborhood audiences, regional cultures, and the growing national mass media, their essays chart how motion pictures so quickly and successfully moved into old opera houses and glittering new picture palaces on Main Streets across America.
Author : Jane Mitchell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595187638
Following the murder of their childhood friend, Grace Ann, Ellott—a single, 40-something librarian—and her roommate, Rosie—a divorced mother of three—confront the effects of her death and the flux of their own lives. Set in North Alabama and Birmingham, this richly detailed mystery unfolds a story of obsession, past loyalties, love, murder, and saving grace. Old Time Music, hits from the '60s, and the spirit of Elvis provide a harmonious backdrop.
Author : Ray Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1480120367
With the continuing controversy over the placement of religious, mostly Christian, symbols on Government property this book deals with a small town, Newton's Mill, and it's attempts to deal with that situation. Mayor G.D. Steward is caught between both sides of the issue when the City Council results in a tie vote regarding the placement of a traditional Nativity Set on the courthouse lawn. The book covers the week between the Tuesday night tie vote in the council and the next Tuesday when the Mayor must render his decision. During that week the Mayor is subjected to pressures from both sides of the issue. But it is the impact of a new arrival in town, a man named Gabriel, that forces him to face his concerns and reservations about the whole Nativity. During the week the newcomer also has a profound effect on many of the townspeople. It is not until the night before the meeting, after a long week of soul searching, that the Mayor finally solidifies his feelings as to whether Newton's Mill will be the town that forgot Christmas.
