Author: Elizabeth R. Epperly
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0802094600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It might surprise some to know that internationally beloved Canadian writer L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942), author of the Anne of Green Gables series, among other novels, and hundreds of short stories and poems, also fuelled a passion for photography. For forty years, Montgomery photographed her favourite places and people, using many of these photographs to illustrate the hand-written journals she left as a record of her life. Artistically inclined, and possessing a strong visual memory, Montgomery created scenes and settings in her fiction that are closely linked to the carefully composed shapes in her photographs. Elizabeth Rollins Epperly's Through Lover's Lane is the first book to examine Montgomery's photography in any depth; it is also the first study to connect Montgomery's photography with her fiction and other writing. Drawing on the work of Montgomery scholars, as well as theorists such as Susan Sontag, Gaston Bachelard, Roland Barthes, John Berger, and George Lakoff, Epperly connects Montgomery's practice of photography with the writer's metaphors for home and belonging. Epperly examines thirty-five of Montgomery's photographs, demonstrating how they figure in the novelist's life and fiction. She argues that the shapes in Montgomery's favourite place in nature - Lover's Lane in Cavendish P.E.I. - organized Montgomery's other photographs, underpinned her colourful descriptions, and grounded her aesthetics. Through Lover's Lane suggests how an artist creates metaphors that resonate within a single work, echo across a lifetime of writing and photography, and inspire readers and viewers across cultures and time.
Author: Donald J. Stubblebine
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-06-08
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1476605602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work, a companion to the author's Broadway Sheet Music: A Comprehensive Listing of Published Music from Broadway and Other Stage Shows, 1918 through 1993 (McFarland 1996), provides information about all sheet music published (1843-1918) from all Broadway productions--plus music from local shows, minstrel shows, night club acts, vaudeville acts, touring companies, and shows on the road that never made it to Broadway--and all the major musicals from Chicago.
Author: Cynthia Carr
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2007-03-27
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0307341887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event in the long and complicated history of race relations in Marion, a history much ignored and considered by many to be best forgotten. But the lynching cannot be forgotten. It is too much a part of the fabric of Marion, too much ingrained even now in the minds of those who live there. In Our Town journalist Cynthia Carr explores the issues of race, loyalty, and memory in America through the lens of a specific hate crime that occurred in Marion but could have happened anywhere. Marion is our town, America’s town, and its legacy is our legacy. Like everyone in Marion, Carr knew the basic details of the lynching even as a child: three black men were arrested for attempted murder and rape, and two of them were hanged in the courthouse square, a fate the third miraculously escaped. Meeting James Cameron–the man who’d survived–led her to examine how the quiet Midwestern town she loved could harbor such dark secrets. Spurred by the realization that, like her, millions of white Americans are intimately connected to this hidden history, Carr began an investigation into the events of that night, racism in Marion, the presence of the Ku Klux Klan–past and present–in Indiana, and her own grandfather’s involvement. She uncovered a pattern of white guilt and indifference, of black anger and fear that are the hallmark of race relations across the country. In a sweeping narrative that takes her from the angry energy of a white supremacist rally to the peaceful fields of Weaver–once an all-black settlement neighboring Marion–in search of the good and the bad in the story of race in America, Carr returns to her roots to seek out the fascinating people and places that have shaped the town. Her intensely compelling account of the Marion lynching and of her own family’s secrets offers a fresh examination of the complex legacy of whiteness in America. Part mystery, part history, part true crime saga, Our Town is a riveting read that lays bare a raw and little-chronicled facet of our national memory and provides a starting point toward reconciliation with the past. On August 7, 1930, three black teenagers were dragged from their jail cells in Marion, Indiana, and beaten before a howling mob. Two of them were hanged; by fate the third escaped. A photo taken that night shows the bodies hanging from the tree but focuses on the faces in the crowd—some enraged, some laughing, and some subdued, perhaps already feeling the first pangs of regret. Sixty-three years later, journalist Cynthia Carr began searching the photo for her grandfather’s face.
Author: Kay Williamson
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2001-08
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0595192866
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beautiful and wealthy Christie Rhineman believes she's the luckiest woman on earth when she marries the charming successful broker, Brent Madison. But things take a different turn when Brent disappears on a business trip to the volatile country, Colombia. Detective Zane Standish is hired to investigate and soon suspects a hoax, but is unable to convince Christie of his suspicions. Eerie phone calls and rearranged photographs prompt Christie to confide in her social secretary, Marilyn. Marilyn sets up a series of seances with her psychic friend, Joyce, and cautions Christie not to reveal any of the paranormal happenings or her family and friends will think she's crazy and have her committed. Day by day, Zane is falling in love with his client. He finds clues and chases down leads until he finally gathers enough evidence to prove to Christie that her life is in danger. But will she listen and will it be in time to keep her out of harm's way?
Author: Richard Stark
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-09-15
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0226772861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In New York there was a contract on his life. In Nebraska there was an unscrupulous plastic surgeon guarded by a punch-drunk fighter. And somewhere in New Jersey there was an armored car stuffed with money. In the middle of it all was Parker. Parker goes under the knife in The Man with the Getaway Face, changing his face to escape the mob and a contract on his life. Along the way he scores his biggest heist yet, but there’s a catch—a beautiful, dangerous catch who goes by the name Alma.
Author: Vikas Gupta
Publisher: Dreamtech Press
Published: 2003-06-04
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9788177223910
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Author: Allan Murray
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Published: 2020-01-24
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1633386945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is about my life and what I went through to live to the age of 94. My book is about the conquest of women, also health and accidents and sickness working and war.
Author: Peter Zablocki
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2018-10-22
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1439672083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Denville in the 1950s was an idyllic place to live, yet a dark chapter in the era's history has remained uncovered. During the summer of 1953, a wealthy traveler with a secret rap sheet as a convicted sex offender arrived in town to continue his misdeeds. A group of thirteen local boys ranging in age from fourteen to twenty-two took it upon themselves to teach the man a lesson and drive him out of town. What resulted was his brutal death and the largest number of people ever indicted for murder in the nation at the time. The harrowing trial and its aftermath revealed a town forced to grapple with how to protect its youth and come to terms with the gruesome incident. Local historian Peter Zablocki covers the crime and a small town's path to redemption.