Author: Roger R. SpencerPublisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages :
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Hoover (Old Baptist) (Ward Burying Ground) Cemetery
Author: Roger R. SpencerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages :
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History of Hoover (Old Baptist) (Ward Burying Ground) Cemetery, Wayne Township, Darke County, Ohio
Author: Roger R. SpencerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Revolutionary War Graves Register
Author: Clovis H. BrakebillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military history
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery
Author: June Hadden HobbsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476644284
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This book relates the stories and describes the memorials of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina's historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States. The authors, an academic and a journalist, detail the lives and memories of people who are buried here, from Civil War soldiers to those who created the Jim Crow South and promoted the narrative of the Lost Cause. Featured are authors W.J. Cash and Thomas Dixon, whose racist novel was the basis for The Birth of a Nation. Drawn from historical research and local memory, it includes the tales of musicians Don Gibson and Bobby "Pepper Head" London, as well as a paratrooper who died in the Battle of the Bulge and other ordinary folks who rest in the cemetery. A bigger responsibility is to give a voice to the silenced, enslaved people of color buried in unmarked graves. Cemeteries are sacred places where artistry and memory meet--to understand, we need both the tales and the tombstones.
History of Randolph County, Indiana
Author: E. TuckerTennessee Records
Author: Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806300019
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This is an exhaustive cemetery-by-cemetery listing of Tennessee mortuary inscriptions, with a separate section of over 100 pages devoted to biographical and historical sketches.
The Annotated Cemetery Book
Author: Patricia Liddle HaslamPublisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Houses of Life
Author: Joachim JacobsPublisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Jewish cemeteries are called Houses of Life for good reason. This book shows how burial grounds across Europe reflect the ways that specific Jewish communities have lived and continue to live. Thirty cemeteries are profiled, starting with the Roman era, running through Islamic Spain and medieval Italy to baroque and 19th-century Germany, and ending in present-day Britain and France. Each cemetery is illustrated with historical and current plans, maps, paintings, drawings, and photographs of both the cemeteries and the communities they have served.
Florida Jewish Heritage Trail
Author: Florida. Division of Historical ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Traces the steps of Florida's Jewish pioneers from colonial times through the present through the historical sites in each county that reflect their heritage.
The Poisonwood Bible
Author: Barbara KingsolverPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061804819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.