Treasures of the Chipola River Valley

History

Chason, H. L

Americas

Father & Son Pub

DEVOTIONAL SOUVENIRS is a book about God, love, peace, old age, beauty. It is also about keeping souvenirs, the paradox of being, honoring one another, trying times, being instant in prayer. It's about our needs for security from childhood on through life, about continuing to grow, about people who have touched our lives. You'll meet a woman who lives what she teaches, who has a positive outlook through the difficult times as well as the good times. This is a book to read to start the day and to read before sleeping at night, a "feel good" good.

Devotional Souvenirs

Clendenin, Dr. Mary Joe

Previous owner's inscription on FFEP. Dustjacket is edgeworn.

The Three Day Promise: A Korean Soldier's Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Donald K. Chung

Memoirs

This epic story is intertwined with the history of the coal mining industry from 1900 through 1960. This book encompasses the life and times of the coal miners children in the camps and how their lifestyle tempered them to succeed at any cost after they matured and left the mining camps. This limited-edition 352 page hardcover book is heavily illustrated with 365 photographs detailing the daily struggles of life in a company-dominated coal camp. Coal Camp Kids are born to fight and survive.... The company-owned stores sold cheese, shoes, dress goods, cookies-and coffins. Miners owed their souls and paychecks months in advance, to the company store. The company houses were square duplexes; asbestos-backed fireplaces supplied some heat. Each box-like house was equipped with outdoor plumbing-a squatty duplex so cold in winter, folks heated a cardboard seat-cover and prayed it wouldn t be cold before they reached the frozen, two-hole necessity some 50 yards from the house. And so hot in summer one swept out snakes, spiders, and wasps before using. Rent was $8-$10 a month, and the miners pay was $1.92 for a 14-hour shift. Regardless of ethnic origins, miners were equalized by their jobs-John L. Lewis brought solidarity and a living wage. Even toddlers toted water for Saturday night bathing in a galvanized tub. Cleanliness of mind, body, and home was the 11th commandment. In the guise of Paternalism , the coal moguls grew fat, wealthy and gained public approbation-all from the seat of the miners coal blackened brows as they wrenched the black gold from the bowels of the mountains surrounding Wayland, Kentucky-named by Clarence Wayland Watson, who later became a United States Senator. S-E-X was taboo. Every coal miners daughter was cherished, protected and guarded-positive she was the last, the only virgin within a seven-state radius. Whether Old Regular Baptist, mackerel snapping Catholic, Methodist or snake-handling Fundamentalist, home life-wrapped in the cloak of coal dusted poverty and warmed by love and laughter-was ridigly moral. Educators instilled love of learning, thirst for knowledge, and awareness of a world beyond the coal camp. Coin of the realm was company minted scrip-and not worth a tinkers damn outside the camp. Company-contracted doctors were scarcer than hen s teeth, and good health was dependent upon home remedies-castor oil and common sense. Moonshining was a proud profession, but bootlegging was the gravy train. Camp police were armed and gutsy, laying the law, and their lives, on the line, aware they could fall like their predecessors-killed from ambush by unseen gun-toters. Ballot boxes were stuffed, votes were purchased with half-pint bottles of boot-leg whiskey, and county roads were graded at election time. LBJ announced $4,500 a year as poverty level -three times the amount a miner earned in the 30's! Basketball and baseball, carnivals and circuses, movies and church revivals, climbing the high rocks and walking the railroad tracks-these were entertainment. The coal industry is dying. The verdant green of young trees entomb the scars left by the moguls, but the creeks and rivers are permanently polluted. Rebirth is a daily hope. Realistically, corporate paternalism was entrapment-from the cradle to the grave: Coal camp kids are born to fight and survive.

Coal Camp Kids Coming Up Hard and Making It

Barbara Ford Ritch

This illustrated book gives clear reflections upon life of the on-line foot soldier in the trenches and bunkers of the mountains of Korea. Join Lt. Matthias and his platoon on the line as they live through daily patrols, ambushes, sleepless nights, bunkers, trenches, boredom, harassment from above, rats, mosquitoes, casualties and constant trauma. Enjoy some of the incidents related to the life of the on line foot soldier such as "Warm Beer", "R and R", "The Wonderful flood", and "The Rocket".

Korean War Reflections of a Young Combat Platoon Leader

Matthias, Howard

World

Cold Before Morning is a simple yet powerful novel of a Scottish family's emotional and heart-warming romance and daily conflict with pioneer Florida between 1854 and 1913.The James McCredies arrived in Micanopy, Florida, one of the state's oldest communities, just in time to get involved in the Third Seminole Indian War, then the Civil War, followed by years of Reconstruction and Yellow Fever epidemics. During those same years, North-Central Florida experienced the "Orange Fever" that drove men to acquire large acreage of citrus trees as they sought to build empires with Victorian homes and extensive bank accounts from their trees of "yellow gold."The title, Cold Before Morning, symbolizes the heartaches, the murders, the thievery, the mysteries, the accidents that took men before their time, and the diseases that caused family tragedies that only the strong could endure. The story also portrays the happiness of courtship, the fulfillment of marriage, and the building of strong families in the face of these hardships. The McCredie family was a real family, the principals of which are all dead, buried in cemeteries in Micanopy, Ocala, Rochelle and Gainesville. This is their story, told by James McCredie's grandson.

Cold Before Morning: A Heart-Warming Novel About a Florida Pioneer Family

Literature & Fiction

Jones, John Paul, Jr.

United States

Faces of Lake Okeechobee

Janosky, James

Reference

Down-Home Southern cooking at its best with over 500 proven and tested recipes. It has an extensive cross-reference index, emergency substitutions chart and an ingredient equivalents chart with easy step-by-step large print directions.

Grandma's Favorite Recipes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Coalson, Lanette

Cooking Education & Reference

Marion Bench's life story, told through the character Joan Evans, was one of the first women commissioned in the United States Navy WAVES. Unlike the "Dear John" letters sent to servicemen overseas by their wives or sweethearts, she receives a "Dear Joan" phone call from her husband that devastated her. This epic story portrays the patriotic career of a Navy heroine serving her country

Dear Joan: "The Epic Story of One of the Original Women Commissioned in the United States Navy"

Bench, Marion R.

A fan's view of the Atlanta Braves amazing season of 1991

Finally, Something to Cheer About: A Fan's View of the 1991 Brave's Season

Dugan, Jack

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