Letters From Lewisburg: Written to Mary Emeline Reynolds Lewis (1828-1911) of Lewisburg, West Virginia and Osceola, Missouri

Miller, Caroline S.

Old Stone Press

In Striving for Excellence in the Social Sector, Eric Schmall commemorates the achievements of the social profits in the Louisville and Southern Indiana region that have been recognized during this past decade by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. Through his review of the five award categories (Art of Vision, Art of Leadership, Art of Governance, Art of Collaboration, and Art of Diversity) Eric reveals how these key subject areas are vital to creating a vibrant, successful social sector. He then takes the next step by revealing how these principles have been used by over fifty award-winning social profits-including organizations with mission focus in the arts, culture, humanities, religion, education, environment, human services, health, and international aid-as they take the hero's journey toward outstanding mission achievement.

Striving for Excellence in the Social Sector

Business & Money

Schmall, Eric

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

"This is no staid diary. There are forest fires, floods, gunplay and many other death-defying episodes." Reviewer, Mark McLaughlin Hazelet's Journal is a true story that gives us insight into the character of those who went before us, a sense of passion, loyalty, and resilience that was so much a part of the great American spirit that our country was founded upon. It's told in the journalist's original voice, captured for generations to come. George Cheever Hazelet was inspired by the great tycoons at the dawn of the Industrial Age and became one himself in the chicory-coffee market. But then the markets crashed and coffee became as cheap as the dirt the farmers were trying to cultivate. In this calamitous financial crisis of the 1890s, he turned to the one opportunity that played no favorites--the Klondike Gold Rush. Hazelet was one of those adventurous souls who went to Alaska in 1898 to seek his fortune. He carved his own path across frozen tundra and snow-covered glaciers to a valley in Alaska scarcely seen by a white man. Here he found not only gold, but coal and oil and rich shafts of copper, the size of which promised breathtaking fortunes. It would also be a valley that would become a symbol of hope for some, despair for others, and lost opportunity for powerful men who did not like to lose. This last frontier was known as the Copper River Country, and it was here that Hazelet set his sights on a new beginning in Alaska. He carried with him the hopes of his family and friends back home in Nebraska as he set out to stake his claim to the gold that seemed to be as plentiful as rain. He remained in Alaska to become one of the most prominent figures of this last frontier. With his close friend and partner Andrew Jackson Meals, he would figure prominently in the development of both Valdez and Cordova. He would meet the titans of industry and two sitting U.S. Presidents, and he would later become the first mayor of Cordova in 1909.

Hazelet's Journal: A Riveting Alaska Gold Rush Saga

Biographies & Memoirs

Hazelet, George Cheever

Historical

Author Allen Northcutt's fun-filled holiday tale weaves a whimsical "ugly duckling" story of animal friends that love an amiable but tattered moose whose name is "Ugly." This picture book introduces eleven animal characters in rhyme as they join Ugly on a snowy trip through the woods to Momma and Poppa Bears' house. There, a Christmas eve party is made very special when Ugly gives unselfishly of himself to overcome a forgotten Christmas tree. The story addresses everyday issues of how "Ugly" names are hurtful and it is not nice to exclude someone from a group because they are different. In the end the animals embrace Ugly as part of their group and change his name to Chris Moose, because it sounds so much like Christmas and is what his spirit is all about. Christie Morris' captivating and humorous illustrations add magic to this soon-to-be-classic Christmas story.

The Legend of Chris Moose: The Most Beautiful Moose in the World

Children's Books

Northcutt, Allen

Animals

IF YOUR NONPROFIT BOARD SEEMS BEWILDERED OVER ITS TRUE ROLE, doesn't understand the mission, allows the organization to drift aimlessly, squabbles with its executive director over authority and responsibility--then get ready to have all of that disorder and confusion cleared up once and for all. ShipShape offers your nonprofit a simple, engaging, and refreshingly unique guide to governing and managing your organization. This guidebook assures clear sailing into wide-open ocean of absorbing ideas and stirring tales illustrating how to skillfully navigate your nonprofit toward mission success. Drawing over forty years of management experience, including over a decade consulting with hundreds of nonprofit boards and executive directors, Eric Schmall offers a masterful and proven method of thinking about how nonprofits can and should act to bring results they promise to their communities. Clever, absorbing, and easily accessible, ShipShape will leave you with a deeply practical appreciation of how to govern and steer your nonprofit with a steadfast, resolute hand.

Shipshape

Management & Leadership

Stories of courage and grit behind Alaska's fierce independence. A mysterious vigilante murder in Nebraska, the Alaska Gold Rush, muckraking politics that lead to the suicide of an American hero and the ambitious, wealthy men vying for control of Alaskan business and industry at the turn of the twentieth century. This third edition has been released with new, never-before-published content outside the Alaska Historical Society Journals. It reveals a first-hand account of the early development of the Alaska railway system and the story behind the richly funded, entrepreneurial Alaska Syndicate initiative that lead to the famous "Keystone Canyon Shoot-out." The discovery of a hand-written letter by George Hazelet to Catherine Wilson, a nomadic chronicler of events in the early Alaska territory and publisher of the historical Copper Tints, gives us an encompassing and refreshing first-hand account of the early railway development in what is still known today as the "Last American Frontier." This is the true story revealed of three men who were the prime movers behind an ambitious, turn-of-the-twentieth-century plan to develop Alaska-the J. P. Morgan - Guggenheim Alaska Syndicate, builder of the Kennecott Copper Mining Company, as well as the Copper River &amp; Northwestern Railway. George Cheever Hazelet, Stephen Birch and Captain David Jarvis were true pioneers of this great Alaska Territory and were backed by enormously wealthy men to whom failure was unacceptable. The challenges and setbacks of this gallant trio have been beautifully captured and documented in this third edition by the award-winning Alaska historian and author, the late Elizabeth A. Tower, MD. The re-release of this book with its additional content stands as a tribute to Dr. Tower's memory and the life she led as a true Alaskan.

Icebound Empire: Industry and Politics on the Last Frontier 1898 - 1938

History

Tower, Elizabeth A

Americas

This book contains as many as 1,395 core SAT words along with synonyms, definitions, and example sentences. In addition, in order to help students preparing for the SAT to memorize the words more effectively, certain words more effectively, certain words have stars (*), which indicate the degrees of difficulty of memorizing them. Based on Mr. Shin's long-term SAT teaching degree experience, students preparing for the SAT must precisely learn the long-term definitions of the SAT words in this book to enhance their SAT Critical Reading scores, particularly on the sentence completion and the short reading passage sections. Once students have memorized all the words, they will be able to start dealing with questions related to the long passages more easily and efficiently. This book will enable students to become better SAT test takers.

Mastering Core SAT Words: 2nd Edition

Test Preparation

Shin, William H

College & High School

This catalogue was published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition of the portraits of David Iacovazzi-Pau. The featured artworks celebrate members of the Louisville, Kentucky artistic community, who through their creativity, support, and passion for the arts are truly the life-blood of this community. The desire of Iacovazzi-Pau to feature these individuals illustrates his deep commitment to the arts that is engrained in his being and led him to seek out relationships with fellow artists and to absorb exhibitions, performances and artistic theory and history, in addition to honing his own skill. The many plates included in this catalogue show the range of Iacovazzi-Pau and the evolution of his style over four years and serve as a wonderful tool for studying the artist's works on paper and paintings as an accompaniment to viewing the works in person.

David Iacovazzi-Pau: Paintings and Works on Paper

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Destroying books has traditionally been seen as a brutal, almost inhumane, act. Is it possible that instead, book destruction can be turned into beautiful and inspiring works of art? That's the premise behind a new book from distinguished designer and photographer, Julius Friedman. Titled simply, The Book, Friedman's latest project is an art book made possible by the sacrifice of several other beautiful books for the pieces within. "The Book project was inspired by Gail Gilbert, the art librarian at the University of Louisville Library, when she gave me a bag of books she was discarding," Friedman noted. "She thought I could tear them up and make collages or an art project. I told her I was not a collage artist and, being a book designer, I could not tear them up. After months of them sitting in my basement and Gail saying, ‘Do something with them,' I made my first deconstruction and collage," he added. Those first collages grew into a body of work, and later, a limited edition of 20 books, all hand-sewn and hand-bound, using hand-set type, letterpress, and tipped-in photographs―and a box made of cherry wood to house each copy. The "run" sold out immediately. "After that project, I continued to make collages and decided to do a coffee table book that people from all walks of life could afford, enjoy, and experience," the artist added. The result is stunning. In 130 beautiful photographs, Friedman gives his torn-apart and twisted books fascinating shapes and structures, some lit from within or without, ranging from the abstract to the concrete, and from the visceral to the intellectual. "I looked at the book from its beginnings to the current and emerging world of the Kindle and other electronic tablets, intuitively keeping in mind the sacred word, censorship, holding an object, its tactile way, even the smell of a book," he stated. The Book will be loved, ironically, by book lovers who will recognize how the artist has harnessed the tactile power of books and transformed them into new and moving forms for his art.

The Book

Friedman, Julius

Sally Hazelet Drummond is believed to be the first female graduate of the Hite Art Institute with a masters in painting in 1952. It was during her study at the University of Louisville that she further explored Abstract Expressionism, a style that started only a decade earlier in the 1940s. In 1953 Drummond, a second-generation abstract expressionist, joined the epicenter of the movement as a member of the Tanager Gallery, one of the leading Tenth Street artists’ co-ops. In the midst of figures such as De Kooning, Reinhardt and Rothko, Drummond refined her style into the dotted starburst patterns that she continued to develop over the course of her life. While Drummond has been described in several genres, ranging from neo-pointillism to op-art, her work and the exhibition itself is firmly rooted in abstract expressionism. Drummond herself described the movement as a kind of iconoclastic fervor. While history has remembered Abstract Expressionism as being a definitive style characterized largely by wall sized canvases swabbed with gestural marks of the artists, contemporary writers provide a much larger perspective that typifies the avant-gardism of the movement. Drummond’s artistic career from her Tanager days to date has been a deepening study into her understanding of abstract expressionist practice. However, as the oeuvre of her work has demonstrated, her explorations into abstraction proffer a different albeit not unfounded view of the art movement. Drummond’s views on spirituality and community serve as a foil to much of the machismo and individualist psychology of the abstract expressionist artists. Additionally, Drummond’s use of easel scale, unrestrained use of color and deliberate art making process offer a reframing of the accepted tenants of abstract expressionism. Drummond’s art and her journey into abstraction is also deserving of the self-same description, an iconoclastic fervor. The exhibition of her art, ranging from the 1940s until 2010, is on display in Gallery X at the Schneider Hall Galleries from November 19th until December 18th, 2015. An accompanying catalogue, Iconoclastic Fervor: Sally Hazelet Drummond’s Road to Abstraction, is also available for purchase from John Clark at Old Stone Press at (502) 693-1506, john@oldstonepress.com

Iconoclastic Fervor: Sally Hazelet Drummond's Road to Abstraction

Sullivan, Hillary

History & Criticism

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