The Victory Garden Plays

Author : Tara Meddaugh
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798678779762

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The Victory Garden Plays by Tara Meddaugh Pdf

The Victory Garden Plays is a full-length drama, appropriate for all ages, told in one act and 7 parts (5 connected 10-minute plays and 2 monologues). It features a cast of 5-12 actors, depending on doubling options. While soldiers fight abroad in WW2, those remaining on the home front strive to make a difference by creating Victory Gardens, supplementing limited food supply. But the pressures on the home front extend much further than simply growing produce. A child worries her failing rooftop garden is an omen of misfortune for her father's return from a POW camp. An infertile woman throws her purpose into feeding neighborhood families. A wealthy man whose chemical plant is commissioned by the government for war purposes struggles with how to leave a meaningful legacy not tainted with warfare. A widow looks for a way to connect with an orphaned boy who speaks no English. These stories, and more, are given light in The Victory Garden Plays, a series of 7 vignettes chronicling people's journeys with their new realities of love, growth, life and death.

Author : Sandy Shinner,Dennis Zacek
Publisher : TriQuarterly Books
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015066801518

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Victory Gardens Theater Presents by Sandy Shinner,Dennis Zacek Pdf

In 2001, Victory Gardens Theater received the Tony Award for Regional Theatre and was hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the country's most important playwrights' theaters." Nearly 250 plays have been produced there since it was founded in 1974, and most are new plays by Chicago authors. This collection features seven plays by authors from the twelve-member Playwrights Ensemble at Victory Gardens. Their works tackle a range of topics from a colorful and imaginative retelling of the Medea legend set in the Carribbean to the desperation and regret that can fill a high-school reunion, from a feisty stroke-survivor claiming her independence to a historical drama about the first free man of color to attend Ohio University.

Author : Lori Weidenhammer
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781771620543

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Victory Gardens for Bees by Lori Weidenhammer Pdf

Who knew modern civilization may be brought down, not by plagues or war, but by bees? Or, more correctly, by no bees? This book investigates the growing problem of bee mortality and offers practical measures we can all take to help. In ecological terms, bees play a critical role in the survival of many plant communities and continuation of life on this planet. No pollination, no seeds. No seeds, no future. Now that bees are facing unprecedented levels of die-off caused by a toxic mixture of environmental stresses, a community-based effort is needed to make gardens, fields and landscapes healthy sanctuaries for bees. Just as citizens banded together to produce Victory Gardens to offset the perilous food shortages of World Wars I and II, now a similarly vital level of collective effort is needed to make our gardens into lifesaving shelters for these essential creatures. Planning a bee-friendly space can provide a beautiful and bountiful selection of edible crops, native plants and fragrant ornamentals, as well as herbs that have medicinal properties for both pollinators and people. With the help of ten inspiring garden plans and planting guides, Weidenhammer shows how bee-friendly plants can be used in creative combinations for plots and pots of all sizes, and are easily grown by novices and seasoned gardeners alike. In the spirit of the history-making Victory Gardens, readers will learn how to pack optimum benefits into a limited space for the survival of hive and home, and backyard beekeepers will learn great planting strategies for making sure their honeybees are healthy and have ample food to overwinter. Victory Gardens for Bees is also buzzing with DIY projects that will provide nesting sites and essential supplies for precious pollinators. With plenty of photographs to help readers identify bees of all stripes, beekeeping tips and other interesting bee-phemera, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to do their part to save bees.

Author : Lee Kochenderfer
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307548726

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The Victory Garden by Lee Kochenderfer Pdf

A poignant story of a young girl desperate to do her part during uncertain times, and the loyalty, sacrifice, and friendship she finds in her community. It’s 1943, and everyone says the war will be over soon–World War II, that is–but Teresa Marks wonders exactly when that day will come. Her older brother, Jeff, is fighting overseas, and Teresa worries about him, hoping he’ll get home to Kansas safely. As a way of speeding Jeff’s return, Teresa and her dad help the war effort by planting a victory garden. For two years, they plant tomatoes (Jeff’s favorite!) and win taste-testing duels with a curmudgeonly neighbor. But as the war begins striking closer to home, Teresa's faith in secret weapons, victory gardens, people, and in life itself begins to shatter. Now Teresa must rely on her community, and her own strength, to get her through to the other side.

Author : Kim Eierman
Publisher : Quarry Books
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781631597503

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The Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman Pdf

The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWII Victory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. The Pollinator Victory Garden offers practical solutions for winning the war against the demise of these essential animals. Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast majority of all flowering plants on our planet. Pollinators include not just bees, but many different types of animals, including insects and mammals. Beetles, bats, birds, butterflies, moths, flies, and wasps can be pollinators. But, many pollinators are in trouble, and the reality is that most of our landscapes have little to offer them. Our residential and commercial landscapes are filled with vast green pollinator deserts, better known as lawns. These monotonous green expanses are ecological wastelands for bees and other pollinators. With The Pollinator Victory Garden, you can give pollinators a fighting chance. Learn how to transition your landscape into a pollinator haven by creating a habitat that includes pollinator nutrition, larval host plants for butterflies and moths, and areas for egg laying, nesting, sheltering, overwintering, resting, and warming. Find a wealth of information to support pollinators while improving the environment around you: • The importance of pollinators and the specific threats to their survival• How to provide food for pollinators using native perennials, trees, and shrubs that bloom in succession• Detailed profiles of the major pollinator types and how to attract and support each one• Tips for creating and growing a Pollinator Victory Garden, including site assessment, planning, and planting goals• Project ideas like pollinator islands, enriched landscape edges, revamped foundation plantings, meadowscapes, and other pollinator-friendly lawn alternatives The time is right for a new gardening movement. Every yard, community garden, rooftop, porch, patio, commercial, and municipal landscape can help to win the war against pollinator decline with The Pollinator Victory Garden.

Author : Helen L. Wilbur
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781585365722

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Lily's Victory Garden by Helen L. Wilbur Pdf

When Lily learns about a lottery for land plots to grow Victory Gardens, she tries to apply. But when the garden club president tells her she's too young to participate, Lily refuses to give up. She knows where there's a house with a big yard. The Bishops live in the largest house in town. It also has the largest yard. But the Bishops' son was the first soldier from the town to die in the war. Now Mrs. Bishop has hidden herself away in their house. When Lily asks Mr. Bishop for the use of a small plot within his yard, his grudging approval comes with the stern warning, "No bothering Mrs. Bishop." As Lily nurtures her garden, she discovers that the human heart is its own garden, with the same needs for attention and love. A former librarian, Helen L. Wilbur now works on the electronic side of the publishing world. Lily's Victory Garden was inspired by family stories of life on the home front during WWII. Helen also authored M is for Meow: A Cat Alphabet. She lives in New York City. Robert Gantt Steele has illustrated many projects and books about the American experience. He is particularly interested in military and WWII history. Robert lives in northern California.

Author : Olga Anna Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015038748656

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Education for Victory by Olga Anna Jones Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Education
ISBN : IND:30000090434154

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Education for Victory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Debi Goodwin
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459745063

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A Victory Garden for Trying Times by Debi Goodwin Pdf

A Victory Garden for Trying Times is a journey through a year of love and despair, and a testament to healing in the natural cycles of the earth.

Author : Merrill Joan Gerber
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0815608926

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The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn by Merrill Joan Gerber Pdf

With The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn, Merrill Joan Gerber demonstrates yet again her talent for pure and natural prose that penetrates the depths of human emotion. Her new novel illuminates the lives of three generations of women belonging to a Jewish American family in New York. Arriving from Poland at the turn of the century, sisters Rachel and Rose discover their fates on New York's Lower East Side. Later, Rachel's daughters, Ava, Musetta, and Gilda, live the passionate drama of their family's destiny as two wars rage in the world around them. In peace and war, the men they love bring them both ecstasy and bitter grief. Musetta's daughters, Issa and Iris, carry the story to its poignant close as the Second World War ends. With a delicate touch yet piercing insight, Gerber explores the yearnings, loves, and struggles of women who try to adapt the Jewish rituals of the "old country" to the realities of the new world.

Author : Rhys Bowen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1542040124

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The Victory Garden by Rhys Bowen Pdf

When Emily volunteers to tend the neglected grounds of a Devonshire estate, she finds inspiration and support in the journals of a medicine woman after learning the devastating news of her fiancé's death.

Author : Meredith Allard
Publisher : Copperfield Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Victory Garden by Meredith Allard Pdf

For fans of Downton Abbey. It’s 1917, in the midst of World War I, and Rose Scofield knows exactly what she’ll do for women suffrage. She’ll fight with her very life to make women's suffrage a reality. A headstrong young woman who yearns to be herself in a time when women weren’t free, Rose comes of age when world wars are new and automobiles, moving pictures, and airplanes are marvels of technology. She falls in love with Adam Bell, a vaudeville actor who travels the country with his brothers gathering laughs and hard knocks, though she denies her feelings for him, fearing he could prove to be her weakness. While working in Washington, D.C. for votes for women, Rose is arrested for her suffragist activities. After her release, she must come to terms with her dreams for the future. Victory Garden is a reminder of how far we’ve come…and how far we still have to go.

Author : H. Byron Earhart
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809370078

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At Grandma's House by H. Byron Earhart Pdf

Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence Winner, 2021 When H. Byron Earhart’s father enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942, young Byron and his family moved into his grandparents' old-fashioned home with a coal-fired range and potbelly stove, and his mother took charge of the family business, a frozen food locker. Grandma was the undisputed head of the family. While his father served on the battleship USS Missouri, his grandparents and mother held the family and the business together. At Grandma’s House is a tribute to everyday Americans who provided the social glue for a country at war as they balanced fear and anxiety for loved ones with the challenges and pleasures of daily life. The experiences of the Earhart family and this Midwestern community, supplemented by contemporary documents, family photos, and professional illustrations, recount with vivid local color the drama that played out on the national and international stage.

Author : United States. Extension Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Agricultural extension work
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069776114

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Extension Service Circular by United States. Extension Service Pdf

Author : Acadia Tucker,Emily Castle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : GARDENING
ISBN : 1734901101

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Tiny Victory Gardens by Acadia Tucker,Emily Castle Pdf

Climate activist and farmer Acadia Tucker fell in love with container gardening after glimpsing its potential to produce food-lots of food. By applying select growing practices, and managing for square inches rather than square feet, she has come up with instructions for growing a small-scale farm on your patio, your stoop, or in? your dining room. If what you want is a garden big enough to line a windowsill, she's got you covered there, too. Tiny Victory Gardens profiles 21 container-friendly crops, and includes recipes for cultivating bountiful gardens, with names like Tiny Herb Garden, Salsa Fresca, and Beans, Bees, and Butterflies, It outlines how to find the right containers (there are wrong ones), identify prime tiny real estate, make food gardens beautiful, and raise crops all year long. Tucker describes how to maximize the environmental impact of growing food in pots. She offers tips on attracting pollinators, shows how to build microbe-rich living soil, and explains ways to ditch harmful pesticides and fertilizers. Her goal is to make it easier for anyone with access to a patch of sun to grow food, no backyard required. This is the third book Tucker has written for Stone Pier Press's citizen gardening series, which highlights how to garden in ways that are good for the planet. Book jacket.