Finding Myself Lost In Louisiana

Author : Keagan LeJeune
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496847348

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Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana by Keagan LeJeune Pdf

In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people’s lives in the Bayou State. His account confronts the challenging environmental record evident in Louisiana’s landscapes. LeJeune also celebrates and memorializes traditions of some underrepresented communities in Louisiana, communities that are vanishing or have vanished—communities including the author’s own. Each section in the memoir is a journey to a fascinating place, but it’s also a search for LeJeune’s own sense of belonging. The book is an adventure and a pilgrimage across Louisiana to explore its future and to reckon with feelings of loss and anxiety accompanying climate disasters. LeJeune travels to Louisiana’s geographic center to learn what waits there. He chases the ghosts of Hot Wells, a shuttered healing resort, and he kneels at the tomb of folk saint Charlene Richard. With every adventure, every memory, he ends up much closer to home.

Author : Keagan LeJeune
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 1496847350

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Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana by Keagan LeJeune Pdf

"In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people's lives in the Bayou State. His account confronts the challenging environmental record evident in Louisiana's landscapes. LeJeune also celebrates and memorializes traditions of some underrepresented communities in Louisiana, communities that are vanishing or have vanished-communities including the author's own. Each section in the memoir is a journey to a fascinating place, but it's also a search for LeJeune's own sense of belonging. The book is an adventure and a pilgrimage across Louisiana to explore its future and to reckon with feelings of loss and anxiety accompanying climate disasters. LeJeune travels to Louisiana's geographic center to learn what waits there. He chases the ghosts of Hot Wells, a shuttered healing resort, and he kneels at the tomb of folk saint Charlene Richard. With every adventure, every memory, he ends up much closer to home"--

Author : Keagan LeJeune
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574412888

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Always for the Underdog by Keagan LeJeune Pdf

Drawing from newspapers, court records, and a decade of interviews and observation, LeJeune offers a penetrating examination of the interplay between legend and place, exploring Smith's own life, this unique historical moment, and the place's mysterious landscape. The book also considers how contemporary festivals and other forms of cultural heritage employ the legend as a cultural recourse. To stay vibrant and meaningful, culture constantly re-makes itself; here, the outlaw occupies a vital role in the re-creation. --Book Jacket.

Author : Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807882658

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Help Me to Find My People by Heather Andrea Williams Pdf

After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved and freedpeople as they tried to come to terms with great loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear, anger, longing, frustration, and hope in the history of American slavery and the domestic slave trade. Williams follows those who were separated, chronicles their searches, and documents the rare experience of reunion. She also explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed by whites about sundered black families. Williams shows how searches for family members in the post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in African American culture in the ongoing search for family history and connection across generations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dave Conroy
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780991899128

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Tired of I.T! - How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bicycle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margarite Fernández Olmos,Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Publisher : White Pine Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1877727369

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Remaking a Lost Harmony by Margarite Fernández Olmos,Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Pdf

Twenty-five short stories from the Hispanic Caribbean. In Pedro Peix's Requiem for a Wreathless Corpse, a family tries to capitalize on the death of a relative who was a famous guerrilla, while the story, Now That I'm Back, Ton, is on a man's disappointment following his return home.

Author : Christian Roselius,Nathaniel Prentiss Banks,John Smith Whitaker
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385448049

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Louisiana's Tribute to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States: Public Demonstration in the City of New Orleans, April 22, 1865. Resolutions, Speeches of Christian Roselius and Others, etc., etc. by Christian Roselius,Nathaniel Prentiss Banks,John Smith Whitaker Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : Sons of the American Revolution. Louisiana Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89058627373

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Year Book of the Louisiana Society Sons of the American Revolution by Sons of the American Revolution. Louisiana Society Pdf

Officers, committees, roster of members, amendments to by-laws, reports of officers, genealogical library, historical documents.

Author : Joseph W Boyou
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781634170826

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A Life of Resiliency by Joseph W Boyou Pdf

Have you ever felt that life is playing against you that you have given everything but it seems like the only option left is to give up? Well, this book is for you. Joseph Boyou's A Life of Resiliency empathizes with your life and shares with you life's morals. This book is a memoir written passionately to impart life's experiences and its way of dealing and accepting life's storms and obstacles. From his early childhood experience in the civil war, packing to flee, hearing gun fights, staying

Author : D.A. Peterson
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781685268459

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Dancing In Circles by D.A. Peterson Pdf

Dancing in Circles takes place at a ballet company during The Nutcracker season. It is a silly and dramatic caper, with a touch of mystery, humor, and romance.

Author : Nanette Bruneaux,Nanatte Phillips
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781411636576

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Choices for The Choiceless: "The Lost Sheep" by Nanette Bruneaux,Nanatte Phillips Pdf

Quiet simply this book is about the trials of life, never giving up, and continuing to seek real life changing answers. Thereby, gaining knowledge from every trial of life through educating yourself, which is sometimes given freely or learned through missteps. In chronological order she shares her life as well as documenting the regiment of care for an aging infirmed parent. It includes lots of knowledgeable and interesting reading for literally everyone. Finally, this book is ultimately a celebration of life and celebration of death when each are within their appropriate time, although more often than not we control and choose that appointed time inappropriately.

Author : Lisa Wingate
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984819895

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The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post–Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students’ lives. “An absorbing historical . . . enthralling.”—Library Journal Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual “Lost Friends” advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away. Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia’s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery’s end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope. Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt—until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.

Author : Lea VanderVelde
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199710643

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Mrs. Dred Scott by Lea VanderVelde Pdf

Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the case's judges and lawyers. In telling the life of Harriet, Dred's wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a compensatory history to the generations of work that missed key sources only recently brought to light. Moreover, it gives insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish their freedom. A remarkable piece of historical detective work, Mrs. Dred Scott chronicles Harriet's life from her adolescence on the 1830s Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier, to slavery-era St. Louis, through the eleven years of legal wrangling that ended with the high court's notorious decision. The book not only recovers her story, but also reveals that Harriet may well have been the lynchpin in this pivotal episode in American legal history. Reconstructing Harriet Scott's life through innovative readings of journals, military records, court dockets, and even frontier store ledgers, VanderVelde offers a stunningly detailed account that is at once a rich portrait of slave life, an engrossing legal drama, and a provocative reassessment of a central event in U.S. constitutional history. More than a biography, the book is a deep social history that freshly illuminates some of the major issues confronting antebellum America, including the status of women, slaves, Free Blacks, and Native Americans.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498520

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Kate DiCamillo
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781536204773

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Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo Pdf

From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are — and deciding who you want to be. When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn’t overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny) and find a way home. But as Louisiana’s life becomes entwined with the lives of the people of a small Georgia town — including a surly motel owner, a walrus-like minister, and a mysterious boy with a crow on his shoulder — she starts to worry that she is destined only for good-byes. (Which could be due to the curse on Louisiana's and Granny’s heads. But that is a story for another time.) Called “one of DiCamillo’s most singular and arresting creations” by The New York Times Book Review, the heartbreakingly irresistible Louisiana Elefante was introduced to readers in Raymie Nightingale — and now, with humor and tenderness, Kate DiCamillo returns to tell her story.