A short history of an Historic African-American Community in West Chester, Pennsylvania,  This self-guided walking tour is illustrated with numerous photographs, many of them offering a rare glimpse into the 19th-century lives of early black entrepreneurs.   The book also documents the Civil Rights era: Bayard Rustin,famous as the chief tactician of nonviolent action and the organizer of the March of 1963, was born and raised in the East End.

Walking the East End:: A Historic African-American Community in West Chester, Pennsylvania

History

Quillman, Catherine C.

Wesley, Sarah

Americas

Hedgerow Press

Cottage memories: A family record

Jean O'Neill

What was Christmas like when western Wisconsin was still largely covered with pine forests, and towns like Menomonie had only a few hundred souls? When a few hardy farmers were clearing the cutover land stump by stump, acre by acre, a little at a time. When there was no electricity, little money, few places to buy goods. Before Wisconsin was a dairy state, when each farm had only a few cows and raised wheat and oats and barley. When lumber barons built mansions in town and entertained such high society as was to be found on the frontier. A Wisconsin Town and Country Christmas explores Christmas traditions brought by early settlers to the area from the old country—Slovaks, Scandinavians, Irish, English, Swiss, Germans—through interviews with their descendants still living on farms, in the towns, in old cheese factories. Beautifully illustrated with 19th century etchings and lithographs, together with specially commissioned drawings of local Wisconsin farms in the snow, this little book evokes Christmases past and present and may even inspire you to try the cornucopia of recipes collected from those interviewed. As James Eggert notes in his foreword to this 30th anniversary edition, "To me, it’s a classic book to be read today, tomorrow, or ten or twenty years from now while being aware that much of the cultural ecology and practices of the different groups may well have been lost or forgotten—if they had not been written down here." Enjoy!

A Wisconsin Town and Country Christmas: Traditions, Memories, & Irresistible Recipes!

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Lynch, Larry

Howarton, Renee

Entertaining & Holidays

What was Christmas like when western Wisconsin was still largely covered with pine forests, and towns like Menomonie had only a few hundred souls? When a few hardy farmers were clearing the cutover land stump by stump, acre by acre, a little at a time. When there was no electricity, little money, few places to buy goods. Before Wisconsin was a dairy state, when each farm had only a few cows and raised wheat and oats and barley. When lumber barons built mansions in town and entertained such high society as was to be found on the frontier.
A Wisconsin Town and Country Christmasexplores Christmas traditions brought by early settlers to the area from the old country--Slovaks, Scandinavians, Irish, English, Swiss, Germans--through interviews with their descendants still living on farms, in the towns, in old cheese factories. Beautifully illustrated with 19th century etchings and lithographs, together with specially commissioned drawings of local Wisconsin farms in the snow, this little book evokes Christmases past and present and may even inspire you to try the cornucopia of recipes collected from those interviewed.
As James Eggert notes in his foreword to this 30th anniversary edition, "To me, it's a classic book to be read today, tomorrow, or ten or twenty years from now while being aware that much of the cultural ecology and practices of the different groups may well have been lost or forgotten--if they had not been written down here." Enjoy!

Renee Howarton

Larry Lynch

Ten Miles from Anywhere: A Suffolk Chronicle

John Bean

wonderful chapter softcover book...the story of Anny Scoones that is funny,charming in a quirky way;great portraits of animals and people

Home : Tales of a Heritage Farm

Anny Scoones

Apples Under the Bed - recollections and Recipes from B.C. Writers and Artists

Coldwell, Joan (Editor)

Written over a year in which the Canadian author underwent surgery and radiation for breast cancer, this memoir speaks of how the ordeal deepened her appreciation for friends, family and the fragile planet. Having first observed a labyrinth at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Matthews found that walking the labyrinth in her period of crisis and change helped her find courage and calm. She came to realize that the goal was not simply to arrive at the centre of the labyrinth but to reach the centre of herself. Not a self-help or how-to book, as Goody Niosi notes, this "reads like a good novel with a brave protagonist fighting a battle with evil forces. You want to turn the page. You want to know, 'What happens next?'"

Reflections on the C-Word: At the Centre of the Cancer Labyrinth

Literature & Fiction

Matthews, Carol

History & Criticism

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Memoir. LGBT Studies. Political Science. Winner of the 2008 Lamda Liteary Award for LGBT Nonfiction. Internationally acclaimed author of seven novels, prolific short story writer and social commentator, Jane Rule compiled this final book of essays in the months before she died in late 2007. As in her fiction and three previously published essay collections, we find here an absorbing story-teller, a wise observer of character and a fearless spokesperson for lesbian and gay rights. In some of the essays Rule considers episodes of her own life, from infancy almost to its end. She intersperses thoughtful commentary on political themes that have long engaged her, such as censorship, pornography, misguided tax laws and same-sex marriage, and on literary issues such as the nature of story-telling and the role of the woman writer. There is both laughter and grief in these essays, barely-contained anger at injustice, and a clear-eyed acceptance of what can't be changed.

Loving the Difficult

Rule, Jane

It is I, Patricia: an artist's childhood

Coldwell, Joan

Bates, Pat Martin

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