Author: Robert Oliver
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595622240
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Author's note: I'm in my mid-eighties, and I've just finished writing this collection of poems drawn from my boyhood years. They're not poems about my early life-they're poems from my early life. Each poem arose from a separate journey. I went back, became the boy I once was, then took a snapshot of something happening in that place and time. The place is a small farming and coal mining community in Western Pennsylvania. The time is my boyhood years, 1929-1937 or thereabouts. I'm sending these snapshots to my children and grandchildren. I'm also offering them to you, hoping you'll enjoy them. Robert Oliver August 2008
Our Barn in Summer: Remembering Portersville
Author: Robert Oliver
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595622240
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Author's note: I'm in my mid-eighties, and I've just finished writing this collection of poems drawn from my boyhood years. They're not poems about my early life-they're poems from my early life. Each poem arose from a separate journey. I went back, became the boy I once was, then took a snapshot of something happening in that place and time. The place is a small farming and coal mining community in Western Pennsylvania. The time is my boyhood years, 1929-1937 or thereabouts. I'm sending these snapshots to my children and grandchildren. I'm also offering them to you, hoping you'll enjoy them. Robert Oliver August 2008
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595622240
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Author's note: I'm in my mid-eighties, and I've just finished writing this collection of poems drawn from my boyhood years. They're not poems about my early life-they're poems from my early life. Each poem arose from a separate journey. I went back, became the boy I once was, then took a snapshot of something happening in that place and time. The place is a small farming and coal mining community in Western Pennsylvania. The time is my boyhood years, 1929-1937 or thereabouts. I'm sending these snapshots to my children and grandchildren. I'm also offering them to you, hoping you'll enjoy them. Robert Oliver August 2008
Cowboy Poetry
Author: Sunny Hancock
Publisher: Cowboy Miner Productions
ISBN: 9781931725026
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1790
Book Description
Publisher: Cowboy Miner Productions
ISBN: 9781931725026
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1790
Book Description
Land of Milk and Money
Author: Anthony Barcellos
Publisher: Tagus
ISBN: 9781933227405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Portuguese immigrant family falls apart when the matriarch's death leaves their dairy-farm legacy up for grabs
Publisher: Tagus
ISBN: 9781933227405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Portuguese immigrant family falls apart when the matriarch's death leaves their dairy-farm legacy up for grabs
Hell's Angels
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307826619
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction. “California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.” Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson’s vivid account of his experiences with California’s most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell’s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, “For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson’s book is a thoughtful piece of work.” As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell’s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307826619
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction. “California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.” Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson’s vivid account of his experiences with California’s most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell’s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, “For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson’s book is a thoughtful piece of work.” As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell’s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.
Comical Co-Stars of Television
Author: Robert Pegg
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147661024X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Although some scholars credit Shakespeare with creating in Henry IV's Falstaff the first "second banana" character (reviving him for Henry IV Part Two), most television historians agree that the popular co-star was born in 1955 when Art Carney, as Ed Norton, first addressed Jackie Gleason with a "Hey, Ralphie-boy," on The Honeymooners. The phenomenon has proved to be one of the most enduring achievements of the American sitcom, and oftentimes so popular that the co-star becomes the star. Twenty-nine of those popular co-stars get all of the attention in this work. Each chapter focuses on one television character and the actor or actress who brought him or her to life, and provides critical analysis, biographical information and, in several instances, interviews with the actors and actresses themselves. It includes people like Art Carney of The Honeymooners, Don Knotts of The Andy Griffith Show, Ted Knight of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Max Baer of The Beverly Hillbillies, Vivian Vance and William Frawley of I Love Lucy, Ann B. Davis of The Brady Bunch, Jamie Farr of M*A*S*H, Ron Palillo of Welcome Back, Kotter, Jimmie Walker of Good Times, Tom Poston of Newhart and Michael Richards of Seinfeld, to name just a few.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147661024X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Although some scholars credit Shakespeare with creating in Henry IV's Falstaff the first "second banana" character (reviving him for Henry IV Part Two), most television historians agree that the popular co-star was born in 1955 when Art Carney, as Ed Norton, first addressed Jackie Gleason with a "Hey, Ralphie-boy," on The Honeymooners. The phenomenon has proved to be one of the most enduring achievements of the American sitcom, and oftentimes so popular that the co-star becomes the star. Twenty-nine of those popular co-stars get all of the attention in this work. Each chapter focuses on one television character and the actor or actress who brought him or her to life, and provides critical analysis, biographical information and, in several instances, interviews with the actors and actresses themselves. It includes people like Art Carney of The Honeymooners, Don Knotts of The Andy Griffith Show, Ted Knight of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Max Baer of The Beverly Hillbillies, Vivian Vance and William Frawley of I Love Lucy, Ann B. Davis of The Brady Bunch, Jamie Farr of M*A*S*H, Ron Palillo of Welcome Back, Kotter, Jimmie Walker of Good Times, Tom Poston of Newhart and Michael Richards of Seinfeld, to name just a few.
Chavez and the Farm Workers
Author: Ronald B. Taylor
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Sibling Rivalry
Author: Karen Doherty
Publisher: Bantam Press
ISBN: 9780593059166
Category : Discipline of children
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The breakthrough guide to solving SIBLING RIVALRY* Do your children ever argue, fight or wind each other up? * Do they get competitive, jealous or vie for your attention? * Do you feel powerless to stop their squabbling? *
Publisher: Bantam Press
ISBN: 9780593059166
Category : Discipline of children
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The breakthrough guide to solving SIBLING RIVALRY* Do your children ever argue, fight or wind each other up? * Do they get competitive, jealous or vie for your attention? * Do you feel powerless to stop their squabbling? *
History of Crawford and Clark Counties, Illinois
Author: William Henry Perrin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clark County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clark County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Beery Family History
Author: William Beery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Also includes some descendants of Otto Beery. He was born in 1859 at Langnau, Berne, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States ca. 1885. He married Mary McCleary in 1890 at Passaic, New Jersey. They had five children, 1891-1906. He died in 1918 at Wallington, New Jersey.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Also includes some descendants of Otto Beery. He was born in 1859 at Langnau, Berne, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States ca. 1885. He married Mary McCleary in 1890 at Passaic, New Jersey. They had five children, 1891-1906. He died in 1918 at Wallington, New Jersey.
The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America
Author: Robert H. Churchill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.