Memoir Of A Bootlegger S Daughter

Author : Mary Cimarolli
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781585444472

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The Bootlegger's Other Daughter by Mary Cimarolli Pdf

The generation that toiled through the Great Depression and won the Second World War has become known as “the greatest generation.” But not all of them qualified for that exaggerated epithet in the eyes of their own children. In this tender but unsparing memoir, Mary Cimarolli remembers a world in which the family home was lost to foreclosure, her father made his way by bootlegging, and school was a haven to hide from her brother’s teasing. Her stories are about struggle and survival, making do and overcoming, and, ultimately, reconciliation. From her perspective as a child, she describes the cotton stamps and other programs of the New Deal, the yellow-dog Democrat politics and racism of East Texas, and the religious revivals and Old Settlers reunions that gave a break from working in the cotton patch. The colorful colloquialisms of rural East Texas that dot the manuscript help express both the traditionalism of the region and its changes under the impact of modernization, electrification, and the coming of war. Along with these regional and national trends, Cimarolli skillfully interweaves the personal: conflict between her parents, the death of her brother a few days before his sixteenth birthday, and her own inner tensions.

Author : Renee' Carter Tench
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781489709790

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Memoirs of a Bootlegger’S Daughter by Renee' Carter Tench Pdf

For author Renee Carter Tench, April 17, 2008, was the first day of the rest of her life. It was the day she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Tench spent more and more time reflecting on her past experiences and examining her life. In Memoirs of a Bootleggers Daughter, she tries to understand the reason and purpose behind all of the chaos in growing up the child of alcoholic parents. The lone survivor of the Carter family who lived at the end of the dirt road in Hickory, North Carolina, Tench shares the stories of her tumultuous childhood. She tells how, by the grace of God and taking advantage of the opportunities He provided, she broke the cycle of alcoholism in her family, a cycle that began even before her grandfather and father became bootleggers. She often felt looked down on because of the spectacle she and her family often made. Memoirs of a Bootleggers Daughter narrates how Tench started out at the end of one dirt road and ended up at the end of another and the wild journey in between, a journey she would be happy to take again.

Author : Evelyn Ofiara
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 143925558X

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Memoir of a Bootlegger's Daughter by Evelyn Ofiara Pdf

The thoughts,history,and descriptions are mixed seamlessly to create a perfect flow.These are vivid recollections of the Great Depression looking back.

Author : Leona Veona Pietz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Parkston (S.D.)
ISBN : 1575793792

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Memories of a Bootlegger's Daughter by Leona Veona Pietz Pdf

Author : Evangelist Hazel Singleton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781546208099

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The Girl from Rat Row by Evangelist Hazel Singleton Pdf

In rural Georgia of the 1950s, Haley, a bootleggers daughter, begins her journey. Raised by two uneducated parents and working in cotton fields, Haley endures abuse, alcoholism, ridicule, and most glaringly, an environment where little love is ever shown. She is introduced to a former slave, Aunt Matilda, a woman with no children of her own, who raises Haley to love the Lord in spite of their present circumstances. In the 1960s, as a seventeen-year-old with two children out of wedlock, Haley attempts to escape the harsh realities of her past, only to have them follow her to New Hampshire. Drinking and partying to ease the pain becomes a way of life for her. Haley is finally forced to begin facing her inner demons and perceiving the call of God on her life. Witness the extraordinary journey of the girl from Rat Row in this harrowing tale of overcoming the worst of ones past to get to the best of ones future.

Author : Evangelist Hazel Singleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1546208119

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The Girl from Rat Row by Evangelist Hazel Singleton Pdf

In rural Georgia of the 1950s, Haley, a bootlegger's daughter, begins her journey. Raised by two uneducated parents and working in cotton fields, Haley endures abuse, alcoholism, ridicule, and most glaringly, an environment where little love is ever shown. She is introduced to a former slave, Aunt Matilda, a woman with no children of her own who raises Haley to love the Lord in spite of their present circumstances. In the 1960s, as a seventeen-year-old with two children out of wedlock, Haley attempts to escape the harsh realities of her past, only to have them follow her to New Hampshire. Drinking and partying to ease the pain become a way of life. Haley is finally forced to begin facing her inner demons and perceiving the call of God on her life. Witness the extraordinary journey of the girl from Rat Row in this harrowing tale of overcoming the worst of one's past to get to the best of one's future.

Author : Joan Winghart Wilcox Sullivan
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 142693453X

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Bernie, You're a Bootlegger! by Joan Winghart Wilcox Sullivan Pdf

When the Prohibition era arrives in 1920, it changes the lives of almost every person living in America, including Bernie Winghart. Instead of pursuing a career as a factory worker or mechanic, Bernie vows to "save the people" from the bad liquor that's killing them. He teams up with his brother, Joe Winghart Jr., and his sister-in-law, Mayme Schaller Winghart, to illegally sell alcohol to the masses. Known as the "Bootlegging Trio," they profit handsomely. Even so, this formerly upstanding family from upstate New York is now part of a secret underworld of lawbreakers that includes sinister gangsters. There is danger everywhere, and Bernie is so intimidated that he vows never to marry until he's out of the business. He goes from woman to woman, breaking hearts. Told through the perspective of the bootleggers' daughter, "Bernie, You're a Bootlegger!" gives a glimpse into how Prohibition affected one family and an entire nation until it was declared a failure.

Author : Joan Winghart Wilcox Sullivan
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781426934551

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Bernie, You're a Bootlegger! by Joan Winghart Wilcox Sullivan Pdf

When the Prohibition era arrives in 1920, it changes the lives of almost every person living in America, including Bernie Winghart. Instead of pursuing a career as a factory worker or mechanic, Bernie vows to save the people from the bad liquor thats killing them. He teams up with his brother, Joe Winghart Jr., and his sister-in-law, Mayme Schaller Winghart, to illegally sell alcohol to the masses. Known as the Bootlegging Trio, they profit handsomely. Even so, this formerly upstanding family from upstate New York is now part of a secret underworld of lawbreakers that includes sinister gangsters. There is danger everywhere, and Bernie is so intimidated that he vows never to marry until hes out of the business. He goes from woman to woman, breaking hearts. Told through the perspective of the bootleggers daughter, Bernie, Youre a Bootlegger! gives a glimpse into how Prohibition affected one family and an entire nation until it was declared a failure.

Author : Arley Kenneth Fadness
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781540260130

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The Ku Klux Klan in South Dakota by Arley Kenneth Fadness Pdf

A startling rise and retreat In the 1920s, a reborn Ku Klux Klan slithered into South Dakota. Bold at times, the group intimidated citizens in every county. KKK anti-Catholicism sentiment resulted in the murder of Father Arthur Belknap of Lead. Idealized Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore, operated as a white supremacist and KKK leader. In 1925, animosity between the KKK and Fort Meade soldiers came to a clash one night in Sturgis. The clatter of two borrowed .30 caliber Browning cooled machine guns split the air over the heads of a Klan gathering across the valley. Author Arley Fadness follows the Klan's trail throughout the Rushmore state.

Author : Ms. Dorothy
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781434973665

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The Bootlegger's Daughter by Ms. Dorothy Pdf

I was raised in a café my first years of living. My father’s brother and his wife raised me on their own. There was bootlegging, gambling, police raids, and people put in jail. I didn’t get to church very much, but there were older women around who looked out for me the best they could. I was molested, burned with a cig, and drunk by the time I was eight. I picked a little cotton as time went on. I became a businesswoman, and an addict of crack cocaine and drank heavily. I had a child at fourteen, she had one at thirteen, and so I was a grandmother at twenty-eight. But I loved learning. God and books turned my life around. To me, no matter what you go through, you can overcome it. Don’t let your pride hold you back. There is a power greater than all of us, who is willing and will to help you. Keep the faith; if I did it, so can you. In reading this book, it will show you that we all go through something. Most importantly, love yourself. My title is a very true story. I hope that by reading this book, it will help you. Now we have drug dealers, then, in my day, we had booze.

Author : Chuck Cecil
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439657799

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Prohibition in South Dakota by Chuck Cecil Pdf

South Dakota has always had an intermittent relationship with prohibition. Constantly changing legislation kept citizens, saloonkeepers, bootleggers and other scofflaws on tenterhooks, wondering what might come next. The scandalous indiscretions of the lethal Verne Miller and the contributions of "agents of change" like Senators Norbeck and Senn kept ne'er-do-wells on edge. In 1927, the double murder of prohibition officers near Redfield dominated headlines. From the Black Hills stills of Bert Miller to the Sioux Falls moonshine outfit buried under Lon Vaught's chicken house, uncork these oft-overlooked and tumultuous eighteen years in state history. In the first book of its kind, award-winning journalist Chuck Cecil delivers the boisterous details of an intoxicating era.

Author : Pattie Eades Coffey Hiatt
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : North Carolina
ISBN : 9780741424983

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Memories of Many Moons Ago by Pattie Eades Coffey Hiatt Pdf

The author's shares her mother's journey through life as found in her journal. Lodemiah Goodman Eades had a hard life, as did many of her generation. Along with several of her siblings she spent many years growing up in the Mills Home Baptist Orphanage of Thomasville, North Carolina. Interspersed are the author's (Lodemiah's daughter's) own memories of the family.

Author : Mary Cimarolli
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603445733

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Bootlegger's Other Daughter by Mary Cimarolli Pdf

The generation that toiled through the Great Depression and won the Second World War has become known as -the greatest generation.- But not all of them qualified for that exaggerated epithet in the eyes of their own children. In this tender but unsparing memoir, Mary Cimarolli remembers a world in which the family home was lost to foreclosure, her father made his way by bootlegging, and school was a haven to hide from her brother's teasing. Her stories are about struggle and survival, making do and overcoming, and, ultimately, reconciliation. From her perspective as a child, she describes the cotton stamps and other programs of the New Deal, the yellow-dog Democrat politics and racism of East Texas, and the religious revivals and Old Settlers reunions that gave a break from working in the cotton patch. The colorful colloquialisms of rural East Texas that dot the manuscript help express both the traditionalism of the region and its changes under the impact of modernization, electrification, and the coming of war. Along with these regional and national trends, Cimarolli skillfully interweaves the personal: conflict between her parents, the death of her brother a few days before his sixteenth birthday, and her own inner tensions.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393248531

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Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo Pdf

National bestseller An ALA Notable Book Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, and the messengers of a changing earth—owls heralding grief, resilient desert plants, and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. She celebrates the influences that shaped her poetry, among them Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, Navajo horse songs, rain, and sunrise. In absorbing, incantatory prose, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland, and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member. Moving fluidly between prose, song, and poetry, Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming, a spiritual map that will help us all find home. Poet Warrior sings with the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.

Author : James Silas Rogers
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813229188

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Irish-American Autobiography by James Silas Rogers Pdf

Is there still a distinct Irish identity in America? This highly original survey says yes, though it's often an indirect one. Opening a new window on the meanings of Irishness over the twentieth century, this work also reveals how Catholicism, so key to the identity of earlier generations of Irish Americans, has also evolved.