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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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Leon County Genealogical Society Y2K Cemetery Project
Author: Leon County Genealogical Society Y2k Cemetery Project
Author: Leon County Genealogical Society (Texas)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Y2K Cemetery Project
Author: Leon County Genealogical Society (Tex.)Publisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages :
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Leon County Cemetery Records
Author: Leon County Cemetery Guide
Author: Anna Lee GreshamPublisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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In Search of Lake Wobegon
Author: Garrison KeillorPublisher: Studio
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"This book combines text and image to reveal the real-life origins of the place where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children above average." Keillor meditates on the enduring culture of the county and on the years he spent there as a young writer and an outsider. And a short story of Lake Wobegon, "October," appears here for the first time in print."--BOOK JACKET.
That Time of Year
Author: Garrison KeillorPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1951627709
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”
Rogue Wave
Author: P. J. CapelottiPublisher: Military Bookshop
ISBN: 9781782664666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Reprint of book originally published by the Historian's Office of the United States Coast Guard in 2003. Includes maps and photographs in full color.
Nothing Happened
Author: Susan A. CranePublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503614050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and to remember that "nothing happened"? Why might we feel as if "nothing is the way it was"? This book transforms these utterly ordinary observations and redefines "Nothing" as something we have known and can remember. "Nothing" has been a catch-all term for everything that is supposedly uninteresting or is just not there. It will take some—possibly considerable—mental adjustment before we can see Nothing as Susan A. Crane does here, with a capital "n." But Nothing has actually been happening all along. As Crane shows in her witty and provocative discussion, Nothing is nothing less than fascinating. When Nothing has changed but we think that it should have, we might call that injustice; when Nothing has happened over a long, slow period of time, we might call that boring. Justice and boredom have histories. So too does being relieved or disappointed when Nothing happens—for instance, when a forecasted end of the world does not occur, and millennial movements have to regroup. By paying attention to how we understand Nothing to be happening in the present, what it means to "know Nothing" or to "do Nothing," we can begin to ask how those experiences will be remembered. Susan A. Crane moves effortlessly between different modes of seeing Nothing, drawing on visual analysis and cultural studies to suggest a new way of thinking about history. By remembering how Nothing happened, or how Nothing is the way it was, or how Nothing has changed, we can recover histories that were there all along.
Sofia's Saints
Author: Diana LópezPublisher: Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Forced to confront both her painful past and the seemingly inevitable loss of her old home, Sofia realizes that she must reevaluate everything she thought she knew about art, love, men, miracles, and money."--BOOK JACKET.