Author: Joyce Blackburn
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Martha Berry started a revolution that has changed the lives of more young men and women than she ever dreamed possible-and her dreams were big ones. Martha Berry started a revolution that has changed the lives of more young men and women than she ever dreamed possible-and her dreams were big ones. Starting with a tiny log cabin, Martha Berry devoted her life to building a school where underprivileged children could be taught a vocation along with academic studies. From her first contacts with the poor mountain children of Georgia, she faced disapproval from her more wealthy relatives and friends, and she encountered many disappointments. But her determination, coupled with her charm and genius, inspired both the poor and the wealthy to aid in her crusade for a better education for all children. Today Berry College stands as a fitting monument to the vision of this inspired woman, who was honored for her work by three presidents of the United States.
Martha Berry, a Woman of Courageous Spirit and Bold Dreams
Author: Joyce Blackburn
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Martha Berry started a revolution that has changed the lives of more young men and women than she ever dreamed possible-and her dreams were big ones. Martha Berry started a revolution that has changed the lives of more young men and women than she ever dreamed possible-and her dreams were big ones. Starting with a tiny log cabin, Martha Berry devoted her life to building a school where underprivileged children could be taught a vocation along with academic studies. From her first contacts with the poor mountain children of Georgia, she faced disapproval from her more wealthy relatives and friends, and she encountered many disappointments. But her determination, coupled with her charm and genius, inspired both the poor and the wealthy to aid in her crusade for a better education for all children. Today Berry College stands as a fitting monument to the vision of this inspired woman, who was honored for her work by three presidents of the United States.
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Martha Berry started a revolution that has changed the lives of more young men and women than she ever dreamed possible-and her dreams were big ones. Martha Berry started a revolution that has changed the lives of more young men and women than she ever dreamed possible-and her dreams were big ones. Starting with a tiny log cabin, Martha Berry devoted her life to building a school where underprivileged children could be taught a vocation along with academic studies. From her first contacts with the poor mountain children of Georgia, she faced disapproval from her more wealthy relatives and friends, and she encountered many disappointments. But her determination, coupled with her charm and genius, inspired both the poor and the wealthy to aid in her crusade for a better education for all children. Today Berry College stands as a fitting monument to the vision of this inspired woman, who was honored for her work by three presidents of the United States.
Miracle in the Mountains
Author: Harnett Thomas Kane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A biography of Martha Berry and the story of how she built the Berry Schools.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A biography of Martha Berry and the story of how she built the Berry Schools.
Berry College
Author: Ouida Dickey
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820330795
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Illustrated with more than one hundred photographs, a detailed and comprehensive history of Berry College, located in northwest Georgia, reviews its humble beginnings in 1902 as a trade school for rural Appalachian youth to its present-day standing among the Southeast's best liberal arts colleges.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820330795
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Illustrated with more than one hundred photographs, a detailed and comprehensive history of Berry College, located in northwest Georgia, reviews its humble beginnings in 1902 as a trade school for rural Appalachian youth to its present-day standing among the Southeast's best liberal arts colleges.
A History of the Berry Schools on the Mountain Campus
Author: Jennifer W. Dickey
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625846711
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Martha Berry had a vision that a residential school for young men and women with limited educational opportunities would help break the cycle of poverty that pervaded the rural South. She began an educational experiment in northwest Georgia that unfolded during her lifetime and continues into the twenty-first century. This book tells the story of a part of that school--the high school that existed on the Mountain Campus at Berry for more than six decades. For the students who were educated there, the school was transformative. As one alumnus explained, the school had about it an "intangible magic." Join author and Berry Academy alumna Jennifer Dickey as she captures the spirit of that school that today lives on in the "head, heart and hands" of its graduates.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625846711
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Martha Berry had a vision that a residential school for young men and women with limited educational opportunities would help break the cycle of poverty that pervaded the rural South. She began an educational experiment in northwest Georgia that unfolded during her lifetime and continues into the twenty-first century. This book tells the story of a part of that school--the high school that existed on the Mountain Campus at Berry for more than six decades. For the students who were educated there, the school was transformative. As one alumnus explained, the school had about it an "intangible magic." Join author and Berry Academy alumna Jennifer Dickey as she captures the spirit of that school that today lives on in the "head, heart and hands" of its graduates.
Martha Berry
Author: Ouida Dickey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"This volume is presented as part of the Centennial (1902-2002) Celebration of Berry College, its founder Martha Berry, and its predecessor institutions. These Sketches are organized into five parts that emphasize both the history and the important influences that Martha Berry and the institutions have inspired and given through these 100 years."--Front flap of dustjacket
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"This volume is presented as part of the Centennial (1902-2002) Celebration of Berry College, its founder Martha Berry, and its predecessor institutions. These Sketches are organized into five parts that emphasize both the history and the important influences that Martha Berry and the institutions have inspired and given through these 100 years."--Front flap of dustjacket
The Story of Martha Berry, Berry College & Schools
Author: Berry Schools
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Martha Berry, the Sunday Lady of Possum Trot
Author: Tracy Byers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Martha Berry
Author: Mary Kay Phelan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A biography of the young woman whose desire to help Appalachian children resulted in the creation of boarding schools and a college in rural Georgia where youngsters could work as well as study.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A biography of the young woman whose desire to help Appalachian children resulted in the creation of boarding schools and a college in rural Georgia where youngsters could work as well as study.
Martha Berry
Author: Joyce Blackburn
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613852913
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Martha Berry devoted her life to building a school where underprivileged children could be taught a vocation along with academic studies. Her determination, coupled with her charm and genius, inspired both the poor and the wealthy to aid in her crusade for a better education for all children.
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613852913
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Martha Berry devoted her life to building a school where underprivileged children could be taught a vocation along with academic studies. Her determination, coupled with her charm and genius, inspired both the poor and the wealthy to aid in her crusade for a better education for all children.
Jayber Crow
Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582436894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber. Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow’s acquaintance with loneliness and want have made him a patient observer of the human animal, in both its goodness and frailty. He began his search as a “pre–ministerial student” at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man needed more than a mirror to find himself. But the beginning of that finding was a short conversation with “Old Grit,” his profound professor of New Testament Greek. “You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out—perhaps a little at a time.” “And how long is that going to take?” “I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.” “That could be a long time.” “I will tell you a further mystery,” he said. “It may take longer.” Wendell Berry’s clear–sighted depiction of humanity’s gifts—love and loss, joy and despair—is seen though his intimate knowledge of the Port William Membership.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582436894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber. Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow’s acquaintance with loneliness and want have made him a patient observer of the human animal, in both its goodness and frailty. He began his search as a “pre–ministerial student” at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man needed more than a mirror to find himself. But the beginning of that finding was a short conversation with “Old Grit,” his profound professor of New Testament Greek. “You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out—perhaps a little at a time.” “And how long is that going to take?” “I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.” “That could be a long time.” “I will tell you a further mystery,” he said. “It may take longer.” Wendell Berry’s clear–sighted depiction of humanity’s gifts—love and loss, joy and despair—is seen though his intimate knowledge of the Port William Membership.