A Smile From Katie Hattan

Author : Leon Hale
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780975272749

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A Smile from Katie Hattan by Leon Hale Pdf

Natural wonders were Leon Hale’s lifetime subject matter. He looked for them wherever he went, and found them surprisingly often. In the lives of plain people and eccentrics, in the brilliant smile of a tiny 100-year-old black lady, or the hi-jinks of his cousin C.T., in what happened on a dirt farm in 1930 or why he found value in chiseling brick, he revealed truths and wonders we might not have noticed on our own. When published in 1982, A Smile from Katie Hattan was Leon Hale’s first column collection after nearly thirty years of writing for The Houston Post. It was widely celebrated for presenting the delightful daily work of this writer, at last, to a wider audience. What is remarkable, now, forty years later, is how fresh and interesting the 155 columns remain, as we roam with the author through a Texas that remains as vivid and enjoyable as the day he wrote about it.

Author : Leon Hale
Publisher : Winedale Pub
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0940672073

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A Smile from Katie Hattan & Other Natural Wonders by Leon Hale Pdf

A collection of columns written by Hale for the Houston Post on people and places in Texas.

Author : Kenneth L. Untiedt
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574412239

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Folklore by Kenneth L. Untiedt Pdf

Folklore is everywhere, whether you are aware of it or not. A culture's traditional knowledge is used to remember the past and maintain traditions, to communicate with other members within a community, to learn, to celebrate, and to express creativity. It is what helps distinguish one culture from another. Although folklore is so much a part of our daily lives, we often lose sight of just how integral it is to everything we do. If we look for it, we can find folklore in places where we'd never think it existed. Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do includes articles on a variety of topics. One chapter looks at how folklore and history complement one another; while historical records provide facts about dates, places and names, folklore brings those events and people to life by making them relevant to us. Several articles examine the cultural roles women fill. Other articles feature folklore of particular groups, including oil field workers, mail carriers, doctors, engineers, police officers, horse traders, and politicians. As a follow-up article to Inside the Classroom (and Out), which focused on folklore in education, there is also an article on how teachers can use writing in the classroom as a means of keeping alive the storytelling tradition. The Texas Folklore Society has been collecting and preserving folklore since its first publication in 1912. Since then, it has published or assisted in the publication of nearly one hundred books on Texas folklore.

Author : Leon Hale
Publisher : Winedale Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000095321521

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Old Friends by Leon Hale Pdf

Selected articles from the author's column in the Houston chronicle.

Author : Texas Folklore Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African Americans
ISBN : CHI:70746871

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Publications of the Texas Folk-lore Society by Texas Folklore Society Pdf

Author : Joseph Nathan Kane,Janet Podell,Steven Anzovin
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89080537137

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Facts about the States by Joseph Nathan Kane,Janet Podell,Steven Anzovin Pdf

**** The first edition (1989) of this appealing popular reference is cited in ARBA 1990, Sheehy Suppl., and--we blush--RandR Book News. It provides a detailed yet concise portrait of every state (as well as D.C. and Puerto Rico), combining facts and statistics to profile the state's history, economy, population, cultural development, natural resources, and political system. Each chapter concludes with an extensive bibliography of nonfiction and reference volumes and an annotated list of literary works (fiction, memoirs, and biographies) in which the state and its people play a major role. Included in this revised and updated edition are two new sections, one covering the environment, the other presenting unusual state facts. For a broad audience. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Len Fulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Books
ISBN : NWU:35556018642769

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Small Press Record of Books in Print by Len Fulton Pdf

Author : CONTEMPORARY.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 081031939X

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Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series by CONTEMPORARY. Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : UOM:39015049024584

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AB Bookman's Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leon Hale
Publisher : Winedale Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCAL:B4439636

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Paper Hero by Leon Hale Pdf

In this charming volume, popular Texas columnist Leon Hale recalls with wit and poignancy his early life, from birth to college through combat duty in World War II to his first job. By tums touching and hilarious, Paper Hero provides a personal look at Depression era life, as the Hale family chases an elusive prosperity from town to town across the West Cross Timbers of Texas. Difficult though the times were -- with the frequent absence of his traveling salesman father and several periods of real hardship -- there was much to smile at, too. In his graceful prose Hale renders vividly for us his youthful delight at games like tin-can shinny; his rueful discomfort at the limitations church membership placed on a growing boy's freedom of expression; his admiration for his father's joyous showmanship and for his mother's ability to draw comfort from the beauty of ordinary things. Also, for the first time in print he talks about his lifelong aversion to mirrors and the reason for it. Hale's style, clear and musical in its rhythms, evocative of laughter and pain within a single paragraph, is a masterful achievement masked by its deceptive simplicity. Every page of this remarkable book breathes with humanity and heart.

Author : Leon Hale
Publisher : Winedale Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015041736078

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Home Spun by Leon Hale Pdf

Home Spun is a delightful collection of Hale columns selected from work over the past eight years -- full of humor and wry observation -- presented in the easy-going, graceful prose style for which the author is noted.

Author : Leon Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0975272713

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See You on Down the Road by Leon Hale Pdf

The habits of a lifetime ebb slowly, and so we have this honest, moving and gently amusing account of a retirement that began, in 2014, when beloved Texas writer Leon Hale was 93.In his inimitable voice, Hale reveals his personal joys and regrets as he traverses the territory of old age, which has come to him later than it does to many people. We're with him at the dinner party where he told an 11 PM story at 8:30; we learn why he doesn't like the ocean, but loves the shore. For the first time, he shares the World War II experience that haunts him still; and relates the sad drama of his first divorce. We watch turf battles between blue birds and chickadees, and observe his mother's long effort to teach a parakeet her favorite Bible verse. Friends and family populate these pages. He marvels at his daughter's love affair with Africa and the sudden arrival of three far flung grandchildren soon after Hurricane Harvey. Fishing with his wife's four-year-old grandson ends with a surprise entertainment.There are health challenges, oh yes, and the give and take that goes on in a happy marriage. Through it all, however, flows the unstoppable optimism that has sustained him through every crisis.For anyone who has wondered what it's like to approach their hundredth birthday, here is one inspiring and truthful answer, told with the special sheen of wit and human feeling that we have come to expect from this fine writer.

Author : Leon Hale
Publisher : Shearer Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0940672243

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One Man's Christmas by Leon Hale Pdf

Author : Leon Hale
Publisher : Shearer Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037632119

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Easy Going by Leon Hale Pdf

Here the author goes 'on the road again', taking us with him across the Grand Prairie, the Piney Woods, the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and other Texas territory as he records the sights and sounds of the state's back ways. Most often the road takes him home to the country, and he lovingly portrays a rural lifestyle that is changing -- perhaps passing -- even as he writes.

Author : Leon Hale
Publisher : Winedale Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 097015254X

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Bonney's Place by Leon Hale Pdf

In finding the missing $15,000 that his father gave to an unknown acquaintance, a son discovers some cold-cut truths. The setting is the Texas beer joint, Bonney's Place.