Brother Sid is a fictional account of the bright, abbreviated life of iconic southern poet Sidney Lanier. From college he is sent to war, and from war to prison. Afterward, neither Reconstruction nor broken romance derails him for long. Lanier juggles ill health, poverty and great promise by balancing on his friends and the remarkable gifts God gave him. Decades later, a woman in her final days sees Sidney Lanier as a man worth remembering for his steadfast pursuit of improbable dreams, some of which even came true.

Brother Sid: A Novel of Sidney Lanier

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May Lamar

Real Estate

The Donnell Group

A Biography of Norval K. Morey, founder of Morbark, Inc.  Norval "Nub" Morey couldn't read very well, but that didn't stop him from developing one of the most successful forest products equipment companies in the world, Morbark, Inc.  And he didn't go far to do it.  In fact Morey built the company just a couple of miles from the site of the log cabin where he was born.  The people of Winn, Michigan and Isabella County will forever be grateful for Morey's business and labor infusion, as well as for Morey's significant philanthropic contribution.  But Morey's impact was felt nationwide, not only because of the innovative wood reduction machinery he patented and introduced to the forestry industry, but also because of his foresight as to the potential of wood biomass as a renewable energy that could drive America toward energy independence.  In recent years, wood-to-energy has emerged in the United States and worldwide, but Norval Morey was promoting it 40 years ago.  And his biggest propenent was none other than a presidential candidate named Ronald Reagan.  That Morey befriended and convinced "The Great Communicator' himself to deliver Morey's wood energy message to the nation is but one example of the tireless devotion Morey maintained for many pursuits during his life.  Norval Morey's life was an exciting journey.  He worked on his family's farm during the Great Depression, he felled big timber in the forests of the Great Northwest, he experienced hellacious front-line combat for most of a year in Italy during World War II.  Then he came back home to rural Winn, where with the aid of many Morey siblings and relatives he began to put down his own, unique, unbending entrepreneurial stamp.  There's not a statue of Morey in his hometown, but there probably should be.

My Way: The Norval Morey Story by Rich Donnell (2013-05-03)

Rich Donnell

<p>With but hours to live, artist Anne Goldthwaite reveals to her sister long-forgotten stories of the past, some true and some embellished, while still hoping for the return of her long-time lover from the war in Europe. Anne is proud of her Southern roots. Born less than a year after occupied Alabama's return to the Union, Anne's earliest Montgomery memories are fond ones. Her grandfather, U.S. Senator George Goldthwaite, hosts family meals daily at his Church Street mansion. But her father, Richard Goldthwaite, runs afoul of city fathers and in 1872 packs up his family to try his luck in the booming railroad town of Dallas. That's where the memories grow dark with family tragedy. The four orphaned Goldthwaite children are sent back to Montgomery and split up among their relatives. Anne, the oldest, is fourteen. In her unfinished memoirs, she speaks of this time: "I always carried a load of melancholy that I could feel tangibly pressing on my heart, especially if I went off to have a good time on some cotton plantation. The night was so sad it was almost unendurable." Kindly Aunt Molly is the first to notice Anne's talent and when no suitable marriage match can be found, she sends her niece to study art in New York City. This was the Gibson Girl era, Twain's Gilded Age and the fight for Women's Suffrage is at full tilt. Anne settles in to Greenwich Village with a house full of single women and signs on to the fight. Paris is her next stop, and where she falls in with Gertrude Stein's flamboyant crowd and falls for the man with whom she will discreetly spend the next thirty-seven years. World War I sends her back to New York, but it takes a long time to arrive as an artist. There is a price to pay for a woman trying to butt in to a man's profession while simultaneously fighting men for the right to vote. She paints for a time under a male nom de plume. Anne pays for her beliefs with pieces of her career but her triumph is in never giving up. Not for a day. Her prolificacy is in evidence by the number of works in private homes and fine museums across the country. Anne once explained her astonishing work ethic with the following statement: "Every time I open my eyes I see a possibility for a picture."</p>

Gifts: A Novel

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Brother Sid: A Novel of Sidney Lanier

My Way: The Norval Morey Story by Rich Donnell (2013-05-03)

Gifts: A Novel