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Author: James B. Twitchell Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 0807137618 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 189
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As a boy, James Twitchell heard stories about his ancestors in Louisiana and even played with his great-grandfather's Civil War sword, but he never appreciated the state and the events that influenced a pivotal chapter in his family history. His great-grandfather, Marshall Harvey Twitchell, a carpetbagger from Vermont, had settled in upstate Louisiana during Reconstruction, married a local girl, and encountered much success until a fateful day in August 1874. The dramatic story of the elder Twitchell's life and near assassination fuels the author's pursuit of his family's history and a true understanding of the South. In Look Away, Dixieland, Vermont-native Twitchell sets out from his current home inFlorida on the inauguration day of America's first black president to find the "real" South and to try to understand the truth about his illustrious ancestor. He travels in an RV from Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp across Alabama and Mississippi to Coushatta, Louisiana. As he drives through the heart of Dixie, Twitchell sorts through the prejudices he learned from his northern rearing. In searching for the culture he had held at arm's length for so long, he tours small-town southern life -- in campgrounds, cotton gins, churches, country fairs, and squirrel dog kennels -- and uncovers some fundamental truths along the way. Notably, he discovers that prejudices of race, class, and ideology are not limited by geography. As one man from Georgia mockingly summed up North versus South stereotypes, "Y'all are rude and we're stupid." Unexpectedly, Twitchell also uncovers facts about his great-grandfather and sheds new light on his family's past. An enlightening, humorous, and refreshingly honest search, Look Away, Dixieland reveals some of the differences and similarities that ultimately define us as a nation.
Author: James B. Twitchell Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 0807137618 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 189
Book Description
As a boy, James Twitchell heard stories about his ancestors in Louisiana and even played with his great-grandfather's Civil War sword, but he never appreciated the state and the events that influenced a pivotal chapter in his family history. His great-grandfather, Marshall Harvey Twitchell, a carpetbagger from Vermont, had settled in upstate Louisiana during Reconstruction, married a local girl, and encountered much success until a fateful day in August 1874. The dramatic story of the elder Twitchell's life and near assassination fuels the author's pursuit of his family's history and a true understanding of the South. In Look Away, Dixieland, Vermont-native Twitchell sets out from his current home inFlorida on the inauguration day of America's first black president to find the "real" South and to try to understand the truth about his illustrious ancestor. He travels in an RV from Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp across Alabama and Mississippi to Coushatta, Louisiana. As he drives through the heart of Dixie, Twitchell sorts through the prejudices he learned from his northern rearing. In searching for the culture he had held at arm's length for so long, he tours small-town southern life -- in campgrounds, cotton gins, churches, country fairs, and squirrel dog kennels -- and uncovers some fundamental truths along the way. Notably, he discovers that prejudices of race, class, and ideology are not limited by geography. As one man from Georgia mockingly summed up North versus South stereotypes, "Y'all are rude and we're stupid." Unexpectedly, Twitchell also uncovers facts about his great-grandfather and sheds new light on his family's past. An enlightening, humorous, and refreshingly honest search, Look Away, Dixieland reveals some of the differences and similarities that ultimately define us as a nation.
Author: Wilton Barnhardt Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250022282 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 382
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Presiding over her family and its legacy of masterpiece Civil War art, North Carolina society maven Jerene Jarvis Johnston takes increasingly haphazard steps to protect her grown children from their own heedlessness.
Author: Marona Posey Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781492259558 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 356
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Skye Campbell, her teenage daughters, and newborn son flee their home in the South after the death of Skye's second husband, who died under mysterious circumstances. Jenna, the oldest daughter, flees to Chicago while Carrie remains with her mother. They know the missing husband is in the Tennessee River but hid that from his brother who is searching for him, as well as from the detective who wants to question Skye's husband about an unsolved murder. When Pearl Harbor is bombed and World War II begins, the journey of the women takes them from one end of America to another. They are haunted by the ghosts of the past as they strive to forge ahead with a new life. You will bond with these characters as they progress through the next 25 years. This is the first novel in the "Look Away" series that carries you from Pearl Harbor to the bombing of the World Trade Center. The sequel will be released in October 2013.
Author: Clay Travis Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062010417 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 386
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There is no college ball more passionate and competitive than football in the Southeastern Conference, where seven of the twelve schools boast stadiums bigger than any in the NFL and 6.5 million fans hit the road every year to hoot and holler their teams to victory. In September 2006, popular sports columnist and lifelong University of Tennessee fan Clay Travis set out on his "Dixieland Delight Tour." Without a single map, hotel reservation, or game ticket, he began an 8,000-mile journey through the beating heart of the Southland. As Travis toured the SEC, he immersed himself in the bizarre game-day rituals of the common fan, brazenly dancing with the chancellor's wife at a Vanderbilt frat party, hanging with University of Florida demigod quarterback Tim Tebow, and abandoning himself totally to the ribald intensity and religious fervor of SEC football. Dixieland Delight is Travis's hilarious, loving, irreverent, and endlessly entertaining chronicle of a season of ironic excess in a world that goes a little crazy on football Saturdays.
Author: Florence King Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 1466816252 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 240
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Looking for guidance in understanding the ways and means of Southern culture? Look no further. Florence King's celebrated field guide to the land below the Mason-Dixon Line is now blissfully back in print, just in time for the Clinton era. The Failed Souther Lady's classic primer on Dixie manners captures such storied types as the Southern Woman (frigid, passionate, sweet, bitchy, and scatterbrained--all at the same time), the Self-Rejuvenating Virgin, and the Good Ole Boy in all his coats and stripes. (The Clinton questions--is he a G.O.B. or isn't he?--Miss king covers in her hilarious new Afterword.) No one has ever made more sharp, scathing, affectionate, real sense out of the land of the endless Civil War than Florence King in these razor-edged pages.
Author: B. L. Blankenship Publisher: Benjamin Blankenship ISBN: 9781087879383 Category : Languages : en Pages : 290
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Thirteen dark, cruel, and exceedingly violent macabre tales of terror lie inside the pages of the anthology "Look Away Dixie Land: a collection of Western Horror stories." Following East Tennessee author - B. L. Blankenship's Civil War era Western Horror dual novel "God Walks The Dark Hills: Book I&II", it is set within the same time and tone. Each story both acts independently and complementary towards the God Walks The Dark Hills Series. Additionally, Southern Gothic novelist L. B. Stimson co-wrote the short story Amaranthine Rhapsody. While they're all historical fiction, these stories fall all across the horror sub-genres including, existential, paranormal, psychological, gothic horror, and so forth (depending on the story).
Author: Hal Leonard Corp. Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 148039789X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 761
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(Fake Book). You don't have to be from below the Mason-Dixon line to enjoy this primo collection for B-flat instruments of nearly 250 Dixieland tunes: Ain't Misbehavin' * Alexander's Ragtime Band * Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home * California, Here I Come * Dinah * Down by the Riverside * Georgia on My Mind * Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah) * Honeysuckle Rose * I'm Gonna Sit Right down and Write Myself a Letter * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Jelly Roll Blues * Lazy River * Makin' Whoopee! * My Baby Just Cares for Me * Nobody Knows You When You're down and Out * Puttin' on the Ritz * St. Louis Blues * Smile * Stompin' at the Savoy * Tiger Rag (Hold That Tiger) * When the Saints Go Marching In * and many more. All the Real Books feature accurate arrangements in the famous easy-to-read, hand-written notation.
Author: James B. Twitchell
Author: James B. Twitchell
Author: Wilton Barnhardt
Author: Marona Posey
Author: Clay Travis
Author: Howard L. Sacks
Author: Florence King
Author: B. L. Blankenship
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