Come along with Carol and Dick and live in the places where Charles Kuralt was afraid to park his bus. Feel the pain, joy and anger and shake the calloused hands that make America what it is. See America in its glory and its shame. See it from the highways, the sidewalks and the gutters. Meet Asians, Indians, Jamaicans, Haitians and Mexicans - meet most of them in one chicken factory in central Arkansas on the third shift. See America from the bottom of the cracker barrel.

Hobo-Ing America: A Workingman's Tour Of The U.S.A.

Travel

Noble, Richard Edward

United States

Noble Publishing

Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

This book contains a variety of selected poems by Richard Edward Noble. The book is divided into catagories: My Hometown, Humor, Love and Other Nice Things, Tenderness and Tears, and On the Serious Side. It concludes with a helpful first line index of poems.

A Little Something: Poetry And Prose

Poetry

My column "The Eastpointer" appears each week in the "Franklin Chronicle." In 2007 I won the first place award for humor from the Florida Press Association.  Eastpoint is in the Florida Panhandle.  In a way this is a history book because the Eastpoint and Franklin County that existed when we arrived are gone.   Franklin County has been, traditionally, a seafood community and Eastpoint is the oyster capital of Florida. This volume contains a selection of columns that create a portrait of life in the "sleepy, little fishing village" of Eastpoint, Florida.  The book presents an entertaining variety of columns that paint a picture of what Franklin County has been to me and my wife Carol. Most of these columns are light spirited, a few are serious and hopefully some are downright funny. My goal is that they all contain bits of wit and a trace of wisdom.

The Eastpointer: Life In A Sleepy, Little Fishing Village

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Noble Notes on Famous Folks is, first of all, a book of historical essays. This is to say that they contain the opinions, insights, and interpretations of the author along with historical facts, quotes and situations. This is not a history book. It is a book about history. Most of the sources are stated in the individual note. All these notes were originally written for my own edification and to assist my memory. You might look at this work as my homeschooled college diary or study notes. I've included in this volume a variety of ancient and modern characters ranging from Constantine to Bill Clinton. Some are treated humorously, some satirically and some seriously.

Noble Notes on Famous Folks

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Thank God for the street corners of Lawrence, Ma and being able to "hang out." I started writing stories about the old gang and hangin' out when I was about eighteen years old. Then life came along and got in my way. But now I'm back. As far as I am concerned, I'm stronger and better equipped to do justice to the old gang and the street corners that made our hangin' out so memorable. This is my first book on this subject and it covers more than just the variety stores, drug stores and street corners of my youth. It branches out into barrooms, nightclubs, poolrooms, bowling alleys and the complete Full Monty of the "I'm just hangin' out, Ma" experience. I hope you all enjoy the experience, feel the love, get the jokes, and have some laughs.

"Just Hangin' Out, Ma": Anecdotes and Tales from the Old Neighborhood, Lawrence - My Hometown

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Who are the American Nazis - the Liberals or the Conservatives? Adolf Hitler was a self-styled messiah, preaching a faith. He came from out the Germanic woods like the fabled Siegfried to rescue his people from world domination.  World War I and Adolf Hitler’s experiences as a soldier played a key role in shaping his radical personality and moral judgments.  Everything that confronts us today in our political debate is and was debated in Mein Kampf.  Analysing Adolf Hitler has certainly been an experience. Unfortunately, there he was and here he is today, in all of our arguments, in our politics, in our religions, in our military attitudes, and in our moral judgments.  These are facts which I think we should all be aware of and keep in view as we make our decisions and policies in the future.

Mein Kampf: Analysis of Book One

World

Createspace Independent Pub

Tenement Dwellers is the second volume of anecdotes from my series of books about the old neighborhood and growing up in a collapsing, forgotten industrial mill town along the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Lawrence, Massachusetts was my hometown. It was seven square miles of three-decker tenement houses, housing projects, kids and congestion. It was schoolyards, churches, smokestacks, pool halls, back alleys, barrooms and mile after mile of abandoned, redbrick mill buildings. Life was difficult trying to raise oneself in such an environment. As I said in my first volume, "Just Hangin’ Out, Ma," thank God for the street corners of Lawrence, Mass. and hangin’ out. My best times growing up in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s in Lawrence were those many hours spent with my childhood buddies hangin’ out on the street corners, shooting hoops in the schoolyards and just idling here and there. Lawrence was a forgotten town and we were its offspring. We were not only forgotten; we were ignored and avoided. But in that abandonment we kids found companionship and camaraderie. We discovered the intricacies of friendship, breaking chops and having fun. I have no definition of the term love other than friendship. I learned it as a tenement dweller hanging on the periphery of a social disaster with my buddies. I learned it hiding from the cold in a stranger’s hall way, sitting on the wall up at the Howard playstead, shooting hoops under a streetlight or going out of my way to walk a buddy halfway home in a snow storm on a late evening. I’ve had a good life, making friends wherever I’ve gone and I’m still at it. Enjoy this book, my friends. If you don’t learn anything from it, I do hope you at least get a few laughs.

Tenement Dwellers: Anecdotes and Tales from the Old Neighborhood, Lawrence - My Hometown

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

"Come On-A My House" is the fourth effort in my Lawrence – My Hometown series. Like the last three, this book contains varied anecdotes about the old neighborhood and the old gang. In it I try once again to create a picture of a time and a place and a neighborhood that once was but is no more. On the front cover of this volume I have a picture of the old tenement where I was raised. This is a very old picture of the structure at 32 Chelmsford Street in North Lawrence. It is the house as I remember it as a kid. Most of the folks in the photo are my relatives – grandmother, grandfather, uncles and aunts. This old homestead stands as another icon of my hometown as I remember it. My grandmother owned the building and it was passed down to one of her children, my Uncle Ray. But the song title, "Come On-A My House," is equally significant. The song was written by William Saroyan and a nephew of his while traveling cross country to visit a much beloved aunt. It was a nostalgic song reminiscent of all the ethnic foods and shared childhood delights that William and his nephew were lusting for upon arriving at auntie’s house. This is a very common feeling for all of the folks raised in "The Immigrant City," my hometown of Lawrence, MA. One of the first books I ever read was written by William Saroyan and it was titled "My Name is Aram." It was a book very much like this Lawrence series of books that I’ve been putting together, ethnic in tone yet universal in its message. It has been my inspiration.

Come On-A My House: Anecdotes and Tales from the Old Neighborhood, Lawrence - My Hometown

Standing on the Corner: Anecdotes and Tales from the Old Neighborhood, Lawrence - My Hometown

Community & Culture

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