Author: Barlow Weed Gorham
Publisher:
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Category : Camp meetings
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Tent Meeting
Author: Larry Larson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822211211
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORY: Convinced by written instructions from heaven that the poor misshapen creature to which his daughter has given birth is the Messiah, the Reverend Ed Tarbox kidnaps the baby from the Arkansas laboratory where it is being studied, christen
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822211211
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORY: Convinced by written instructions from heaven that the poor misshapen creature to which his daughter has given birth is the Messiah, the Reverend Ed Tarbox kidnaps the baby from the Arkansas laboratory where it is being studied, christen
Camp Meeting Manual
Author: Barlow Weed Gorham
Publisher:
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Category : Camp meetings
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Publisher:
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Category : Camp meetings
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Life of Rev. John Allen, Better Known as "Camp-meeting John,"
Author: Stephen Allen
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Last Days of Dogtown
Author: Anita Diamant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416556834
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
“An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society’s outcasts…affirms the essential humanity of its poor and stubborn residents, for whom each day of survival is a victory” (The New York Times Book Review). Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann, the village of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and “witches.” Among the inhabitants of this hamlet are Black Ruth, who dresses as a man and works as a stonemason; Mrs. Stanley, an imperious madam whose grandson, Sammy, comes of age in her brothel; Oliver Younger, who survives a miserable childhood at the hands of his aunt; and Cornelius Finson, a freed slave. At the center of it all is Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent soul, deeply lonely, who nonetheless builds a life for herself against all imaginable odds. Rendered in stunning, haunting detail, with Anita Diamant’s keen ear for language and profound compassion for her characters, The Last Days of Dogtown is an extraordinary retelling of a long-forgotten chapter of early American life.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416556834
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
“An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society’s outcasts…affirms the essential humanity of its poor and stubborn residents, for whom each day of survival is a victory” (The New York Times Book Review). Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann, the village of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and “witches.” Among the inhabitants of this hamlet are Black Ruth, who dresses as a man and works as a stonemason; Mrs. Stanley, an imperious madam whose grandson, Sammy, comes of age in her brothel; Oliver Younger, who survives a miserable childhood at the hands of his aunt; and Cornelius Finson, a freed slave. At the center of it all is Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent soul, deeply lonely, who nonetheless builds a life for herself against all imaginable odds. Rendered in stunning, haunting detail, with Anita Diamant’s keen ear for language and profound compassion for her characters, The Last Days of Dogtown is an extraordinary retelling of a long-forgotten chapter of early American life.
The Red Tent
Author: Anita Diamant
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312169787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Based on the Book of Genesis, Dinah shares her perspective on religious practices and sexul politics.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312169787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Based on the Book of Genesis, Dinah shares her perspective on religious practices and sexul politics.
The Gospel Trumpet
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Category : Holiness
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
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Category : Holiness
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
My Moving Tent
Author: Sue F. Dromgoole Mooney
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Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Granite Monthly
Author: Henry Harrison Metcalf
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Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Big Tent
Author: Gregory J. Renoff
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820344370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
For many people, the circus, with its clowns, exotic beasts, and other colorful iconography, is lighthearted entertainment. Yet for Greg Renoff and other scholars, the circus and its social context also provide a richly suggestive repository of changing attitudes about race, class, religion, and consumerism. In the South during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, traveling circuses fostered social spaces where people of all classes and colors could grapple with the region’s upheavals. The Big Tent relates the circus experience from the perspectives of its diverse audiences, telling what locals might have seen and done while the show was in town. Renoff digs deeper, too. He points out, for instance, that the performances of these itinerant outfits in Jim Crow-era Georgia allowed boisterous, unrestrained interaction between blacks and whites on show lots and on city streets on Circus Day. Renoff also looks at encounters between southerners and the largely northern population of circus owners, promoters, and performers, who were frequently accused of inciting public disorder and purveying lowbrow prurience, in part due to residual anger over the Civil War. By recasting itself as a showcase of athleticism, equestrian skill, and God’s wondrous animal creations, the circus appeased community leaders, many of whose businesses prospered during circus visits. Ranging across a changing social, cultural, and economic landscape, The Big Tent tells a new history of what happened when the circus came to town, from the time it traveled by wagon and river barge through its heyday during the railroad era and into its initial decline in the age of the automobile and mass consumerism.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820344370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
For many people, the circus, with its clowns, exotic beasts, and other colorful iconography, is lighthearted entertainment. Yet for Greg Renoff and other scholars, the circus and its social context also provide a richly suggestive repository of changing attitudes about race, class, religion, and consumerism. In the South during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, traveling circuses fostered social spaces where people of all classes and colors could grapple with the region’s upheavals. The Big Tent relates the circus experience from the perspectives of its diverse audiences, telling what locals might have seen and done while the show was in town. Renoff digs deeper, too. He points out, for instance, that the performances of these itinerant outfits in Jim Crow-era Georgia allowed boisterous, unrestrained interaction between blacks and whites on show lots and on city streets on Circus Day. Renoff also looks at encounters between southerners and the largely northern population of circus owners, promoters, and performers, who were frequently accused of inciting public disorder and purveying lowbrow prurience, in part due to residual anger over the Civil War. By recasting itself as a showcase of athleticism, equestrian skill, and God’s wondrous animal creations, the circus appeased community leaders, many of whose businesses prospered during circus visits. Ranging across a changing social, cultural, and economic landscape, The Big Tent tells a new history of what happened when the circus came to town, from the time it traveled by wagon and river barge through its heyday during the railroad era and into its initial decline in the age of the automobile and mass consumerism.
Kʻoria Misyŏn Pʻildŭ
Author:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description