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My Summer Working in the Connecticut Tobacco Fields

Author : John Veteran
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664133429
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book My Summer Working in the Connecticut Tobacco Fields written by John Veteran and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a collection of four memoirs by Dalton Henson, who was the protagonist in John Veteran's three novels, along with some miscellaneous "nonsense and trivia." John Veteran is the pen name of an author who wishes to remain anonymous. Now 78 years old, the author recently retired from a 49-year career as reporter/photographer/editor for small weekly newspapers in the Southern USA. Prior to that, at the age of 24, he was drafted into the U.S. Army during LBJ's "Vietnam buildup" in September 1966. He served for two years, including the second year in Vietnam. After being discharged, he worked on a novel for a year. Unable to find an agent or publisher, he began his newspaper career. His previous books (all self-published) include three novels--The Friendly Stranger + Lead Me, My Shepherd; A Would-Be Adventurist's Quest for Combat; and Three Novels by Dalton Henson--and a book of political, philosophical; and social commentaries, The Downside of Eternal Life and Other Commentaries.

Saved for a Purpose

Author : James A. Joseph
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375540
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Saved for a Purpose written by James A. Joseph and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a minister, James A. Joseph grew up in Louisiana’s Cajun country, where his parents taught him the value of education and the importance of serving others. These lessons inspired him to follow a career path that came to include working in senior executive or advisory positions for four U. S. Presidents and with the legendary Nelson Mandela to build a new democracy in South Africa. Saved for a Purpose is Joseph’s ethical autobiography, in which he shares his moral philosophy and his insights on leadership. In an engaging and personal style, Joseph shows how his commitment to applying moral and ethical principles to large groups and institutions played out in his work in the civil rights movement in Alabama and as a college chaplain in California in the turbulent 1960s. His time later as vice president of the Cummins Engine Company provided an opportunity to promote corporate ethics, and his tenure as Under Secretary of the Interior in the Carter Administration underscored the difficulty and weight of making the right decisions while balancing good policy analysis with transcendent moral principles. In 1996 President Clinton selected Joseph to become the United States Ambassador to South Africa. His recollections of working with Nelson Mandela, whom he describes as a noble and practical politician, and his observations about what he learned from Desmond Tutu and others about reconciliation contain some of the book’s most poignant passages. Saved for a Purpose is unique, as Joseph combines his insights from working to integrate values into America’s public and private sectors with his long engagement with ethics as an academic discipline and as a practical guide for social behavior. Ultimately, it reflects Joseph’s passionate search for values that go beyond the personal to include the ethical imperatives that should be applied to the communal.

The Friendly Stranger

Author : John Veteran
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664111581
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book The Friendly Stranger written by John Veteran and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 16, in 1959, Dalton Henson, an athletic but emotionally disturbed youth living in a small central Florida town, suddenly becomes sexually attracted to prepubescent boys. This attraction gradually intensifies until it nearly completely replaces the attraction he previously felt toward girls and women. As the years go by, he is extremely ashamed of being a “sex pervert” (as he thinks of himself ), and constantly strives to conceal “the way he is” from people he is associating with. This is complicated because he blushes easily and is inclined to do so anytime someone mentions anything pertaining to sex. Despite his sexual attraction, he conceives that sexually molesting a boy would be morally wrong, and he never does so or considers doing so. This book follows Dalton Henson through college, a year of teaching physical education and coaching athletics at a junior high school, a summer as a camp counselor, two years in the U.S. Army—including a year in Vietnam—and the year after he is discharged from the Army, as he lives in a low-grade motel room in Tampa, writing a novel and interacting with a variety of motel staff and guests.

Connecticut Valley Tobacco

Author : Brianna E. Dunlap
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439657556
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Connecticut Valley Tobacco written by Brianna E. Dunlap and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cigar tobacco runs in the blood of Connecticut River Valley farmers. Delve into the surprising history of the region's most iconic crop, all the way back to early Native American uses and the boom of the Civil War. Though fashionable in the 1950s, the popularity of cigars declined a decade later, nearly destroying the region's tobacco industry. A resurgence in the 1990s brought new life to the crop, and the reopening of Cuba in 2015 added a new chapter for cigar tobacco. Brianna Dunlap, director of the Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum, provides a guide to important tobacco landmarks from East Haddam to Brattleboro, featuring stunning photography from Leonard Hellerman. It is the story of the people--the farmers and field hands--who made tobacco the soul of the valley.

Out of the Projects

Author : Charles Daniel Ross
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607992760
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Projects written by Charles Daniel Ross and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the Projects is a wonderful, inspirational story of Daniel Ross, a young man growing up in the projects that found a love for athletics and conquered the world through his abilities. Through his friendships and accomplishments in both track and basketball, Dan Ross learns important lessons about life, love, and the importance of family. Come and experience the many trials and tribulations that life has to offer. Smile and laugh with Dan and his many friends, who grow up in what is considered adverse conditions, yet use that adversity to their own benefit and succeed in a big way. Discover the lessons Dan and his friends learn as they rise Out of the Projects. Charles Daniel Ross earned his BA in Elementary Education from California State College, California, PA in 1973. He's taught and coached in the elementary, middle school and high school levels for over thirty years earning numerous professional and interscholastic honors along the way. Presently he is retired from teaching and lives with his wife Darlene in Allison Park, PA. Even though he has left the rigors of the classroom behind, he still continues to enjoy coaching and working with young people in and around his community.

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Author : Les Payne
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631491679
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X written by Les Payne and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic, award-winning biography of Malcolm X that draws on hundreds of hours of personal interviews and rewrites much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic, National Book Award–winning biography, which interweaves previously unknown details of Malcolm X’s life—from harrowing Depression-era vignettes to a moment-by-moment retelling of the 1965 assassination—into an extraordinary account that contextualizes Malcolm X’s life against the wider currents of American history. Bookended by essays from Tamara Payne, Payne’s daughter and primary researcher, who heroically completed the biography after her father’s death in 2018, The Dead Are Arising affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle.

Staying Alive: A Love Story

Author : Laura B. Hayden
Publisher : Oceanus World Link Services
ISBN 13 : 0983941904
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Staying Alive: A Love Story written by Laura B. Hayden and published by Oceanus World Link Services. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staying Alive: A Love Story is a story of hope and renewal that centers on a woman’s search for meaning after the untimely death of her 49-year-old husband. Coupled with other experiences of loss in her life she is determined to, with her children, persevere.Like Annie Dillard, Hayden draws on the rhythms and rituals of the natural world to explore her Brooklyn roots and New England adulthood. Wild creatures and domesticated critters, seasides and hillsides proffer comfort and understanding as she comes to realize that “no more than a hairline and no less than an eternity” separate her from the man she loved. Even with the wear and tear her faith endures, it rarely diminishes.Her purpose – to usher her two grieving children through a difficult adolescence to a well-adjusted adulthood – resonates through her own struggles. With the precise objectivity reminiscent of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and Joyce Carol Oates’ A Widow’s Story, Hayden recounts the day her husband died and the rituals and obsessions of the bereaved. Forced to look at death straight in the eye, the author stares back, wide-eyed, without blinking through her tears.Hayden also manages to be seriously droll – in an Anne Lamott way. Never is her humor more honed than in the portrayal of her deceased spouse, whose devotion, antics, and wisdom remain ever-present to those who are staying alive without him. His death becomes not only the family’s heartbreak, but the loss of a well-executed life for all who knew him or will get to know him through these essays.Whether Laura Hayden’s writing deals with herself, her children, or her cadre of loved ones, it is clear that she, her daughter, and her son emerge from their tragic loss survivors, not victims of Larry’s death, an outcome of which he would be very pleased. In a culture of intentionally exposed and celebrated self-victimization, the story of this family may be considered a quiet triumph.

United States Tobacco Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book United States Tobacco Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gratuity

Author : Richard Seltzer
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739144243
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Gratuity written by Richard Seltzer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gratuity provides a perspective on nonstandard compensation that demonstrates the process by which tipping norms have an impact on the experiences of workers. Understanding this under-researched perspective reveals a great deal about the role of norms in economic transactions as well as the management practices that shape the work environment and enhance organizational performance.

Looking Back

Author : John Ashton Hester
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 154345495X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Looking Back written by John Ashton Hester and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists three sections: first, feature stories about various local area people and events taken from old issues of the Keowee Courier; second, items from an editorial-page column written by the book’s author, Ashton Hester, during a forty-four-year period from 1974 to 2017; and third, week-to-week highlights from the years 1966–1968. It is the author’s hope that these stories and commentaries will bring back some nostalgic memories for longtime residents and provide some historical insight for younger people and newcomers to the area. The Keowee Courier, founded in 1849, is upstate South Carolina’s second oldest newspaper—second only to the Abbeville County Press and Banner / Abbeville Medium, which was founded in 1844.

When All the Men Were Gone

Author : Ronald G. Capalaces
Publisher : Lazarus Publishers LLC
ISBN 13 : 0615356079
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book When All the Men Were Gone written by Ronald G. Capalaces and published by Lazarus Publishers LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of life in Binghamton, New York and its First Ward during the World War II years.

African American Connecticut

Author : Frank Andrews Stone
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1425175783
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book African American Connecticut written by Frank Andrews Stone and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three hundred years of black affairs in Connecticut are examined in this book. It explains and discusses the changing racial demographics, evolving race relations and civil rights, as well as current issues and possibilities.

Stories We Don’t Tell

Author : Anna Ray
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1664232842
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Stories We Don’t Tell written by Anna Ray and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every family, there are secrets, half-truths, and altered stories told in an attempt to hide the brokenness over the generations. When one mother and daughter decide to cut through the deceit and come clean about the past, they discover shared experiences and find a way to make peace with the mistakes that defined them. When Anna Ray’s firstborn son dies tragically from brain damage after a doctor’s thoughtless mistake, she never anticipates how that loss might come back to haunt her years later. Yet, when her granddaughter Annalise faces paralysis and a partial brain removal due to a medical mistake, she is thrown back into that place she faced when she was a young mother. How can Anna learn from the past, and help her family trust God through heartache and loss, once again?

Making My Mark

Author : Marvin S. Arrington
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881460988
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Making My Mark written by Marvin S. Arrington and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer, judge, public servant, trailblazer: these are only a few words to describe the remarkable accomplishments of the Honorable Marvin S. Arrington, Sr., of Atlanta, Georgia. It's the story of a dedicated man, born in to the segregated South who went on to break down racial barriers and build walls of inclusion and harmony. Judge Arrington was the first African American to become partner at an all-white Atlanta law firm and then, later, established one of the largest and most successful minority law firms in the country. Today, Marvin Arrington is a distinguished judge on the Fulton County Superior Court who continues now to address the great challenges of the 21st century.

Growing Up In Windsor

Author : Bob Gallucci, Ed.D.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105285561
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up In Windsor written by Bob Gallucci, Ed.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ISLA

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book ISLA written by and published by . This book was released on 1975-07 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clippings of Latin American political, social and economic news from various English language newspapers.

Farms, Factories, and Families

Author : Anthony V. Riccio
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438452322
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Farms, Factories, and Families written by Anthony V. Riccio and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often treated as background figures throughout their history, Italian women of the lower and working classes have always struggled and toiled alongside men, and this did not change following emigration to America. Through numerous oral history narratives, Farms, Factories, and Families documents the rich history of Italian American working women in Connecticut. As farming women, they could keep up with any man. As entrepreneurs, they started successful businesses. They joined men on production lines in Connecticut's factories and sweatshops, and through the strength of the neighborhood networks they created, they played a crucial role in union organizing. Empowered as foreladies, union officials, and shop stewards, they saved money for future generations of Italian American women to attend college and achieve dreams they themselves could never realize. The book opens with the voices of elderly Italian American women, who reconstruct daily life in Italy's southern regions at the turn of the twentieth century. Raised to be caretakers and nurturers of families, these women lived by the culturally claustrophobic dictates of a patriarchal society that offered them few choices. The storytellers of Farms, Factories, and Families reveal the trajectories of immigrant women who arrived in Connecticut with more than dowries in their steam trunks: the ability to face adversity with quiet inner strength, the stamina to work tirelessly from dawn to dusk, the skill to manage the family economy, and adherence to moral principles rooted in the southern Italian code of behavior. Second- and third-generation Italian American women who attended college and achieved professional careers on the wings of their Italian-born mothers and grandmothers have not forgotten their legacy, and though Italian American immigrant women lived by a script they did not write, Farms, Factories, and Families gives them the opportunity to tell their own stories, in their own words.