Author: Constantine Michael Xeros Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595522955 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 594
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The memoirs and musings of Constantine Michael Xeros, a native of Dallas, Texas, from a family of immigrant Greeks from the Peloponnesus, educated in the public schools and the Holy Trinity Parish, WWII veteran, graduate of Texas A&M University.
Author: Ernestine McMillan Hilton Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595887333 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 222
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This poignant memoir shares one woman's memories growing up between the two world wars as a member of the McMillan family, a hardworking bunch who made their living on an eastern Washington farm. In a series of vignettes, Ernestine McMillan Hilton recalls the joys of small-town holiday celebrations, close-knit neighbors, and the events that shape the lives of the McMillans as they scratch a living from a scabland farm. With vivid detail, Hilton remembers how the sweet taste of strawberry Jell-O mingled with the wonders of Election Day in 1924 when her mother had the opportunity to vote for the first time, and she revisits how the end of the horse-and-buggy era gave rise to the Model T. She also relates the arrival of her baby brothers, the joys of going to school, and the hardships of the Great Depression. Once Upon a Green Meadow re-creates the charm and hardship of a rural American life that has vanished forever. But more importantly, Hilton's memoir reveals how one family's love sustained them throughout the hard times.
Author: Clifton Bennett Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1300817313 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 475
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Born in late 1918, Clif Bennett grew up in New York City during the turbulent era of the Great Depression and the subsequent years of World War II. Witnessing the world of his times, he identified with the working people, Communists, and anarchists. Inevitably, this led to draft evasion, being hounded by the FBI, and eventually imprisonment. Gifted with both prose and poetic literary skills, he wrote extensively in both forms, expressing the mood and temper of the times as seen through his own eyes. This collection of his writings includes the variety of life in general, including such things as politics, religion, romance, children's stories, living in Africa, and the entire collection of his Yih Jing Sonnets. Collected Works presents a universality of theme and passion from one man's perspective.
Author: Marion Whatley Cowart Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 76
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Muffet during the 1930’s at Ponte Vedra Beach when she first started writing in her diary, a little red leather one with its own lock and key. The author has followed the original diary journal entries and with her recollections has brought to life the summertime that she cherished. The script is true, the memories stills strong today and the illustrations are Muffet’s very own. And, as she says, the story is for beach children of all ages.
Author: Aurand Harris Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 029277317X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 391
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Six Plays for Children by Aurand Harris brings together a variety of dramatic forms that have enormously enriched the literature of children's theatre in this country and around the world. These works by this respected children's theatre playwright show Harris's great versatility: in the commedia dell'arte of Androcles and the Lion; the musical melodrama Rags to Riches; the sober, absurd comedy Punch and Judy; the realistic historical drama Steal Away Home; the farce Peck's Bad Boy; and the musical review Yankee Doodle. Each of the six plays exhibits a vital theatricality which is sure to win a child's attention and response. Editor Coleman A. Jennings traces Harris's development as a playwright in a biographical study based on interviews with Harris. This enlightening section treats Harris's philosophy and teaching methods, as well as his creative process.
Author: Roger L. Bedard Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313368325 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 214
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Although children's theatre has been a part of American culture from early times, historians have not always included it in the documentation of our theatrical heritage. Sometimes more the product of the educator and the social worker than the producer or the theatre artist, theatre with and for young people has been neglected in traditional theatre history studies; yet as early as 1792 Charles Stearns began creating his plays and dialogues for school children. The traditions and success of eighteenth-century school drama inspired social workers to explore similar activities in their playground and settlement house work, and at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, professional producers began experimenting more vigorously with the commercial possibilities of children as audience. This book is a collection of essays by leading authorities in the field on various aspects of the historical development of children's theatre in the United States. The discussions focus on the marked differences that have occurred from group to group and examine the ways in which children's theatre began to find definition, as theorists and writers such as Winifred Ward and Charlotte Chorpenning strove to articulate the differences between the child as participant in creative drama and the child as audience member. The introduction provides a review of early concepts and the evolution of present-day thought, and the essays illuminate facets of the rich and varied history of American theatre with and for children. This trailblazing study will serve as the beginning of a fuller understanding of the field and a challenge to others to document the missing pieces.
Author: J.Molyneux Publisher: John Molyneux ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 513
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Everyone knows that when a loved one dies it leaves a hollow in the world. However, what happens when many people die together? Wouldn't this leave deep valleys. War would leave vast canyons and sometimes these holes might form bridges back into the land of the living and there's no telling what might try to come across them.
Author: Michelle De Leon Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1593090285 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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Yolara has a relationship with her father that has always had to be kept on the down low. The child of a love affair, Yolara's "existence" is finally brought to light after eighteen years. She thinks that this may be her chance to have "real" family ... .
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