Author: Cathryn Carroll
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9781563681042
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In graduating from Gallaudet University, finding a job in Washington, D.C., and starting a family with her college sweetheart, Kitty Fischer tacitly abandoned the Louisiana Cajun culture that had exposed her to little more than prejudice and misery as a child. Upon discovering that she suffered from Usher syndrome (a genetic condition that causes both deafness and blindness), however, Fischer began an unlikely journey toward reclaiming her heritage. She and Cathryn Carroll tell the story of her heroic struggle and cultural odyssey in Orchid of the Bayou: A Deaf Woman Faces Blindness. "By this time Mama knew I was 'not right, '" Fischer says of her early childhood. "She knew the real words for 'not right, ' too, though she never said those words. I was deaf and dumb." Initially Fischer's parents turned to folk healers to try and "cure" their daughter's deafness, but an aunt's fortunate discovery of the Louisiana School for the Deaf would rescue Fischer from misunderstanding and introduce her to sign language and Deaf culture. She weathered the school''s experiments with oralism and soon rose to the top of her class, ultimately leaving Louisiana for the academic promise of Gallaudet. While in college, Fischer met and married her future husband, Lance, a Jewish Deaf man from Brooklyn, New York, and each landed jobs close to their alma mater. After the birth of their first child, however, Fischer could no longer ignore her increasing tunnel vision. Doctors quickly confirmed that Fischer had Usher syndrome. While Fischer struggled to come to terms with her condition, the high incidence of Usher syndrome among Cajun people led her to re-examine her cultural roots. "Could I still be me, Catherine Hoffpauir Fischer, had I not been born of a mix that codes for Usher syndrome?" she asks. "To some extent, the history of my people explains the constitution of my genes and the way my life has unfolded." Today Fischer prospers, enjoying her time with family and friends and celebrating the Deaf, Cajun, Blind, and Jewish cultures that populate her life. Her lively story will resonate with anyone who recognizes the arduous journey toward claiming an identity.
Orchid of the Bayou
Author: Cathryn Carroll
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9781563681042
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In graduating from Gallaudet University, finding a job in Washington, D.C., and starting a family with her college sweetheart, Kitty Fischer tacitly abandoned the Louisiana Cajun culture that had exposed her to little more than prejudice and misery as a child. Upon discovering that she suffered from Usher syndrome (a genetic condition that causes both deafness and blindness), however, Fischer began an unlikely journey toward reclaiming her heritage. She and Cathryn Carroll tell the story of her heroic struggle and cultural odyssey in Orchid of the Bayou: A Deaf Woman Faces Blindness. "By this time Mama knew I was 'not right, '" Fischer says of her early childhood. "She knew the real words for 'not right, ' too, though she never said those words. I was deaf and dumb." Initially Fischer's parents turned to folk healers to try and "cure" their daughter's deafness, but an aunt's fortunate discovery of the Louisiana School for the Deaf would rescue Fischer from misunderstanding and introduce her to sign language and Deaf culture. She weathered the school''s experiments with oralism and soon rose to the top of her class, ultimately leaving Louisiana for the academic promise of Gallaudet. While in college, Fischer met and married her future husband, Lance, a Jewish Deaf man from Brooklyn, New York, and each landed jobs close to their alma mater. After the birth of their first child, however, Fischer could no longer ignore her increasing tunnel vision. Doctors quickly confirmed that Fischer had Usher syndrome. While Fischer struggled to come to terms with her condition, the high incidence of Usher syndrome among Cajun people led her to re-examine her cultural roots. "Could I still be me, Catherine Hoffpauir Fischer, had I not been born of a mix that codes for Usher syndrome?" she asks. "To some extent, the history of my people explains the constitution of my genes and the way my life has unfolded." Today Fischer prospers, enjoying her time with family and friends and celebrating the Deaf, Cajun, Blind, and Jewish cultures that populate her life. Her lively story will resonate with anyone who recognizes the arduous journey toward claiming an identity.
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9781563681042
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In graduating from Gallaudet University, finding a job in Washington, D.C., and starting a family with her college sweetheart, Kitty Fischer tacitly abandoned the Louisiana Cajun culture that had exposed her to little more than prejudice and misery as a child. Upon discovering that she suffered from Usher syndrome (a genetic condition that causes both deafness and blindness), however, Fischer began an unlikely journey toward reclaiming her heritage. She and Cathryn Carroll tell the story of her heroic struggle and cultural odyssey in Orchid of the Bayou: A Deaf Woman Faces Blindness. "By this time Mama knew I was 'not right, '" Fischer says of her early childhood. "She knew the real words for 'not right, ' too, though she never said those words. I was deaf and dumb." Initially Fischer's parents turned to folk healers to try and "cure" their daughter's deafness, but an aunt's fortunate discovery of the Louisiana School for the Deaf would rescue Fischer from misunderstanding and introduce her to sign language and Deaf culture. She weathered the school''s experiments with oralism and soon rose to the top of her class, ultimately leaving Louisiana for the academic promise of Gallaudet. While in college, Fischer met and married her future husband, Lance, a Jewish Deaf man from Brooklyn, New York, and each landed jobs close to their alma mater. After the birth of their first child, however, Fischer could no longer ignore her increasing tunnel vision. Doctors quickly confirmed that Fischer had Usher syndrome. While Fischer struggled to come to terms with her condition, the high incidence of Usher syndrome among Cajun people led her to re-examine her cultural roots. "Could I still be me, Catherine Hoffpauir Fischer, had I not been born of a mix that codes for Usher syndrome?" she asks. "To some extent, the history of my people explains the constitution of my genes and the way my life has unfolded." Today Fischer prospers, enjoying her time with family and friends and celebrating the Deaf, Cajun, Blind, and Jewish cultures that populate her life. Her lively story will resonate with anyone who recognizes the arduous journey toward claiming an identity.
Orchid of the Bayou
Author: Cathryn Carroll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781563682377
Category : Usher's syndrome
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781563682377
Category : Usher's syndrome
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Orchid Collecting in Louisiana
Author: John J. Lynch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orchids
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orchids
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The Orchid Thief
Author: Susan Orlean
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781568957364
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The orchid thief is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy in spite of the fact that he is missing all his teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. This national bestseller follows him into the Florida swamp to relate his mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession.
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781568957364
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The orchid thief is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy in spite of the fact that he is missing all his teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. This national bestseller follows him into the Florida swamp to relate his mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession.
Bayou Shadow Promises
Author: Arlie Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781521215432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Evangeline Brewster is a first grade teacher at a prestigious Manhattan prep school. Born and raised on Galveston Island to a Cajun mother and Cowboy father, she comes from an extended family of Cajun relations and working cowhands. Teaching is her life, and during her time in New York, she plans to sow the seeds of southern hospitality among the wicked descendants of Sherman's march.Travis Whittaker is a single father, not due to death or divorce, but abandonment. He lives his life for his five-year-old son, Thomas, and can't understand why his ex-wife would choose to work in Singapore and leave her small family behind. But when Travis encounters Evangeline during a parent-teacher meeting, he discovers that he is more than attracted to the woman. Will he be able to seduce Miss Brewster's mind while he avoids physical contact until Tom is no longer Evangeline's student?A great cast of characters, including children, teachers, fashionistas, a crusty old cowboy, a ditzy socialite, and a Creole practitioner of Voodoo and the gris-gris.For mature readers over 18.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781521215432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Evangeline Brewster is a first grade teacher at a prestigious Manhattan prep school. Born and raised on Galveston Island to a Cajun mother and Cowboy father, she comes from an extended family of Cajun relations and working cowhands. Teaching is her life, and during her time in New York, she plans to sow the seeds of southern hospitality among the wicked descendants of Sherman's march.Travis Whittaker is a single father, not due to death or divorce, but abandonment. He lives his life for his five-year-old son, Thomas, and can't understand why his ex-wife would choose to work in Singapore and leave her small family behind. But when Travis encounters Evangeline during a parent-teacher meeting, he discovers that he is more than attracted to the woman. Will he be able to seduce Miss Brewster's mind while he avoids physical contact until Tom is no longer Evangeline's student?A great cast of characters, including children, teachers, fashionistas, a crusty old cowboy, a ditzy socialite, and a Creole practitioner of Voodoo and the gris-gris.For mature readers over 18.
The Woman Warrior
Author: Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307759334
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER “A classic, for a reason.” —Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts, via Twitter As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307759334
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER “A classic, for a reason.” —Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts, via Twitter As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.
Orchids
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orchid culture
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orchid culture
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Bayou-Diversity
Author: Kelby Ouchley
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807138614
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Louisiana's bayous and their watersheds teem with cypress trees, alligators, crawfish, and many other life forms. From Bayou Tigre to Half Moon Bayou, these sluggish streams meander through lowlands, marshes, and even uplands to dominate the state's landscape. In Bayou-Diversity, conservationist Kelby Ouchley reveals the bayou's intricate web of flora and fauna. Through a collection of essays about Louisiana's natural history, Ouchley details an amazing array of plants and animals found in the Bayou State. Baldcypress, orchids, feral hogs, eels, black bears, bald eagles, and cottonmouth snakes live in the well over a hundred bayous of the region. Collectively, Ouchley's vignettes portray vibrant and complex habitats. But human interaction with the bayou and our role in its survival, Ouchley argues, will determine the future of these intricate ecosystems. Bayou-Diversity narrates the story of the bayou one flower, one creature at a time, in turn illustrating the bigger picture of this treasured and troubled Louisiana landscape.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807138614
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Louisiana's bayous and their watersheds teem with cypress trees, alligators, crawfish, and many other life forms. From Bayou Tigre to Half Moon Bayou, these sluggish streams meander through lowlands, marshes, and even uplands to dominate the state's landscape. In Bayou-Diversity, conservationist Kelby Ouchley reveals the bayou's intricate web of flora and fauna. Through a collection of essays about Louisiana's natural history, Ouchley details an amazing array of plants and animals found in the Bayou State. Baldcypress, orchids, feral hogs, eels, black bears, bald eagles, and cottonmouth snakes live in the well over a hundred bayous of the region. Collectively, Ouchley's vignettes portray vibrant and complex habitats. But human interaction with the bayou and our role in its survival, Ouchley argues, will determine the future of these intricate ecosystems. Bayou-Diversity narrates the story of the bayou one flower, one creature at a time, in turn illustrating the bigger picture of this treasured and troubled Louisiana landscape.
The Orchids and Gumbo Poker Club
Author: Alice Alfonsi
Publisher: Volo
ISBN: 9780786846719
Category : Junior high school students
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"When Lizzie McGuire's teacher, Mr. Dig, asks all the girls in Lizzie's class to read a special book, Lizzie is skeptical. But after she begins The Orchids and Gumbo Poker Club, she's so totally inspired by the mother-daughter relationship in the story that she starts her very own club with her very own mother. Now you can read the book that Lizzie loved."--
Publisher: Volo
ISBN: 9780786846719
Category : Junior high school students
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"When Lizzie McGuire's teacher, Mr. Dig, asks all the girls in Lizzie's class to read a special book, Lizzie is skeptical. But after she begins The Orchids and Gumbo Poker Club, she's so totally inspired by the mother-daughter relationship in the story that she starts her very own club with her very own mother. Now you can read the book that Lizzie loved."--
Black Orchid
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: DC Black Label
ISBN: 9781401294823
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Originally published in single magazine form in Black orchid 1-3."
Publisher: DC Black Label
ISBN: 9781401294823
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Originally published in single magazine form in Black orchid 1-3."