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Martinsville Memories

Author : Stephen H. Provost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949971033
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Martinsville Memories written by Stephen H. Provost and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martinsville Memories by Stephen H. Provost examines the history of Martinsville, a town in southern Virginia. A town of fewer than 15,000 people, it's been the plug tobacco capital of the world and the sweatshirt capital of the world. It hosts two stock-car races each year at a speedway that holds four times that many people - the oldest on the NASCAR circuit. It's a place of verdant beauty and blue skies a few miles north of the North Carolina state line, in the Goldilocks zone: seldom too hot in summer or two cold in winter. It has thrived as the town with the nation's most millionaires per capita and struggled through factory closures during the era of globalization.Packed with more than 200 images, Martinsville Memories looks at the town from its beginnings through its is a textual and photographic look a diverse town built on tobacco, textiles and furniture that occupies a unique place in the nation's fabric and history. From its the town's historic beginnings through its 20th century prosperity, this volume offers a nostalgic trek through time, with stops at drive-ins, old hotels and iconic storefronts along the way. Martinsville Memories doesn't stop at the city limits, but gives the reader a tour of surrounding communities such Collinsville, Ridgeway, Bassett, Spencer and Axton, as well.With a foreword by author and Martinsville native Stephen Mark Rainey, Martinsville Memories captures the triumphs and struggles of a city at the heart of the South and the soul of America.

The Brush

Author : Graham Jones-Mashman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646030005
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Brush written by Graham Jones-Mashman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Martinsville & Henry County Memories

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ISBN 13 : 9781597258395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Martinsville & Henry County Memories written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Martinsville

Author : Joanne Raetz Stuttgen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738552309
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Martinsville written by Joanne Raetz Stuttgen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on vintage postcards, this new book is a unique and welcome addition to the small number of works devoted to the history of Martinsville. Captured here in more than 220 postcard images is an important chronicle of the past 100 years in the "City of Mineral Water." This visual record showcases the sanitariums--including the glorious Home Lawn and its sibling, the Martinsville--industries and businesses, buildings and people, courthouse square, and special events that shaped the past and influenced the present. This fascinating retrospective is an indispensable companion to and expansion of Morgan County, the authors' first book in Arcadia's Postcard History Series.

Martinsville Virginia

Author : Erie Perry, III
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781456574475
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Martinsville Virginia written by Erie Perry, III and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-03-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martinsville Virginia is the latest addition to Laurel Hill Publishing's History and Memory Series, which uses historical research and heritage, historical memory, to tell the story of city without limits surrounded by Henry County, Virginia.

It's in the Memories

Author : Marie Donovan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469109859
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book It's in the Memories written by Marie Donovan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ITS IN THE MEMORIES In the fall of 2002 our life took a strange twist. We had no way of knowing what was coming or how devastating it would be. In September 2002 we had the world on a string and all seemed to be moving fantastically well. Then along comes mid September and it all starts its spin out of control. I have tried very hard to put our entire journey with its exhilarating ups and its savage downs into perspective. I thought of all the things I had retained through the years that should help guide you through the storm: Tomorrows another day Things can only get better God never gives you more than you can bear There is always the calm after the storm The future will be brighter Everything is for a reason But none of those clichs would help us distance our heartbreak or calm our fraying nerves. Trouble came in the form of troubles at the office. I was put on warning for something I did not do. This was startling to me because in all my years I was never ever put on warning. But that would be nothing compared to what would happen next. In November there would be an accident that would take one of our family members lives and leave in its wake a family that could not put the pieces back together of our broken dreams. Shortly after our familys loss I would be stunned at the death of a close friend and coworker. His senseless death along with Matthews only etched the pain Santa and I were feeling even deeper. Our family had gotten exceptionally close after my mother died in 1998 by spending our good times together. Easters, Thanksgivings, Christmas and New Years were celebrated at my cousin Ward and Cindys home. With their son Matthew getting killed we would now be left shredded, emotionally bankrupt and in search of shelter. The thought that there was more to come never entered our beleaguered minds. The New Year came in quietly skulking its way into our realization. But 2003 was less than two weeks old when Death would pay us another visit. Our son who had just turned 30 in December was killed on January 12th 2003 when his truck left the road and hit a tree on his way home. It would take every ounce of our faith to pull through such a cataclysmic loss. Without the thoughts, gestures, and strong shoulders of our friends and family we never would have made it. In the following months we would deal with many unexpected feelings and occurrences. I have tried to relate these last 2 years in a way that makes sense but also will be hopefully a help to others. Here we are two years later, without Matthew, without Damien, without Michael; and as of April without a job. Our families still lie torn and in torment. Santa and I are still standing and not only that; we are standing strong. Santa and I are closer now than ever. Events have changed our attitudes, our way of thinking, our way of trusting and as a result our way of living. My faith in God has been made stronger. My faith in angels and the hereafter has deepened. My focus is directed to Michael Delaney Jr., Keirsten Farley and Billie Marie Krauss; our three grandchildren. What is past is past but what we make of the future is totally up to us. I want these children to find comfort, stability and pride in the way Santa and I have carried on. I have no doubt that Michael is with Santa and I each and every day. We take comfort in his presence and know he would be satisfied at the way we have chosen to carry on and how we have chosen to remember him.

Martinsville Pictorial History

Author : Reporter-Times
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Martinsville Pictorial History written by Reporter-Times and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Martinsville High School & Etc. "Bits & Pieces"

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Author : Robert B. Clifton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Martinsville High School & Etc. "Bits & Pieces" written by Robert B. Clifton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coach Wooden

Author : Pat Williams
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 1441214925
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Coach Wooden written by Pat Williams and published by Revell. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Coach John Wooden graduated from eighth grade his father gave him a handwritten card and said, "Son, try to live up to this." On the card, his father had written seven simple yet profound life principles: Be true to yourself Help others Make friendship a fine art Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible Make each day your masterpiece Build a shelter against a rainy day by the life you live Give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day These principles were the key to Coach Wooden's greatness--and his goodness. Through powerful stories and pithy advice, this book shares the wisdom that made Wooden happy and successful. This inspirational and conversational book will encourage, challenge, and motivate readers to build these principles into their own lives.

Martinsville Bulletin

Author : Martinsville bulletin, Martinsville, Va
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Martinsville Bulletin written by Martinsville bulletin, Martinsville, Va and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Henry County, Virginia

Author : Judith Parks America Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Henry County, Virginia written by Judith Parks America Hill and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memories of War

Author : Thomas A. Chambers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465230
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Memories of War written by Thomas A. Chambers and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War had seemingly been forgotten in the aftermath of the conflict in which the nation forged its independence. Decades after the signing of the Constitution, the battlefields of Yorktown, Saratoga, Fort Moultrie, Ticonderoga, Guilford Courthouse, Kings Mountain, and Cowpens, among others, were unmarked except for crumbling forts and overgrown ramparts. Not until the late 1820s did Americans begin to recognize the importance of these places. In Memories of War, Thomas A. Chambers recounts America’s rediscovery of its early national history through the rise of battlefield tourism in the first half of the nineteenth century. Travelers in this period, Chambers finds, wanted more than recitations of regimental movements when they visited battlefields; they desired experiences that evoked strong emotions and leant meaning to the bleached bones and decaying fortifications of a past age. Chambers traces this impulse through efforts to commemorate Braddock’s Field and Ticonderoga, the cultivated landscapes masking the violent past of the Hudson River valley, the overgrown ramparts of Southern war sites, and the scenic vistas at War of 1812 battlefields along the Niagara River. Describing a progression from neglect to the Romantic embrace of the landscape and then to ritualized remembrance, Chambers brings his narrative up to the beginning of the Civil War, during and after which the memorialization of such sites became routine, assuming significant political and cultural power in the American imagination.

60 Going on Fifty

Author : Ed Poole
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1600377386
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book 60 Going on Fifty written by Ed Poole and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The stories in this book are about sixteen men, stories of the memories we created throughout our high school years and stories of the separate roads we have traveled since May, 1960"--Introd.

Indiana Magazine of History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indiana Magazine of History written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Martinsville Seven

Author : Eric W. Rise
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918303
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Martinsville Seven written by Eric W. Rise and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1995-05-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the case of the Martinsville Seven, a group of young black men executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman in Martinsville, Virginia. Covering every aspect of the proceedings from the commission of the crime through two appeals, Eric W. Rise reexamines common assumptions about the administration of justice in the South. Although the defendants confessed to the crime, racial prejudice undeniably contributed to their eventual executions. Rise highlights the efforts of the attorneys who, rather than focusing on procedural errors, directly attacked the discriminatory application of the death penalty. The Martinsville Seven case was the first instance in which statistical evidence was used to prove systematic discrimination against blacks in capital cases.

Women Making History

Author : Julia M. Allen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 1643150359
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Women Making History written by Julia M. Allen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, Jocelyn Cohen and Nancy Poore established Helaine Victoria Press to publish women's history postcards. Spurred by the energy of the second wave feminist movement, they learned how to research histories buried in old books and archives and how to print on a vintage letterpress. The press attracted more participants, closing only in 1991 in response to changing communication technologies. Drawing on feminist and material rhetorics, the authors of Women Making History demonstrate that, by creating postcards, Helaine Victoria Press aimed to do more than provide a convenient writing surface or even affect collective memory; instead, they argue, the press generated feminist memory. The cards, each with the picture of a woman or group of women from history, were multimodal. Pictures were framed in colors and borders appropriate to the era and subject. Lengthy captions offered details about the lives of the women pictured. Unlike other memorials, the cards were mobile; they traveled through the postal system, viewed along the way by the purchasers, mail sorters, mail carriers, and recipients. Upon arriving at their destinations, cards were often posted on office bulletin boards or refrigerators at home, where surroundings shaped their meanings. Women Making History shows that Helaine Victoria Press's cards, like the movement from which they emanated, were dynamic and participatory. They were, in short, a multidirectional, open ended, rhetorically evolving process of transforming feminist consciousness. The print edition includes many images from the press's records, and the digital edition offers additional images plus audio and video clips from press participants. This is the first book to demonstrate the relationships between the feminist art movement, the women in print movement, and the scholars studying women's history. Readers will be drawn to both the large quantity of illustrative materials and the theoretical framework of the book, as it provides an expanded understanding of rhetorical multimodality. Scholars of gender and women's studies, art history, media studies, and the history of rhetoric, as well as members of the public with interests in feminism, Lesbian feminist culture, postcards, fine letterpress printing, and papermaking will be inspired by this richly produced history.

Justified by Her Children

Author : Roy G Pollina
Publisher : Mariner Media
ISBN 13 : 1734913657
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Justified by Her Children written by Roy G Pollina and published by Mariner Media. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1958, Virginia newspapers were reporting that the Christ Church, Martinsville, Virginia congregational leadership had declared that their bishop’s plan to integrate the summer youth camp “is both illegal and ill-advised” and that they would oppose any “intermingling of the races.” Amid this controversy, a quiet revolution stirred among that congregation’s young people, uplifted by their youthful, energetic priest, The Reverend Philip Gresham. When these brave young people stood with their bishop in favor of an integrated youth camp their opinion was derided as youthful naïveté. It was suggested that they focus on their studies and leave such problems to the adults. Rather than discouraging them, their church leadership’s humiliating dismissal inspired them to devise a more tangible expression of their position. They would acquire and present a gift, a “peace offering”, as a token of their solidarity with their bishop. Racism will not be finally eradicated by one large divisive victory. The wall of racism will be undone brick by brick by the brave deeds of little known men, women, and young people doing the right thing. Justified by Her Children: Small Deeds of Courage Confronting a Tradition of Racism reminds us that evil often masquerades as the accepted way of doing things – and that confronting evil is often seen as opposing the good order of society. Justified by Her Children is written in the hope that readers will gain a better understanding of “how it was,” and from that understanding, know better how to deal with “how it is” today. In easy to read, clear and concise terms, Justified navigates the tradition of racism from the Virginia colonial enslavers to the Massive Resistance of Virginia segregationist of the 1950s. Justified by Her Children is ultimately a story of grace and forgiveness, but not before it wends its way through the trial and execution of the African American “Martinsville Seven,” past the whispers about the sexual orientation of the young, single priest, and a congregation in conflict over letting its white children eat a box supper with black children at a church mission event to benefit hungry brown children. Unless and until you understand “how it was” when racism was legally and culturally accepted then you will not understand how it is that white privilege still exists or why Black Lives Matter.