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Brother, Forgive Them

Brother, Forgive Them

Mitch Egan Slate

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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The thirty two year old burden of carrying an empty heart was finally lifted when Joey returned to Beal Gardens, on the campus of Michigan State University. Late one Saturday night, Joey sat in the center of the gardens admiring the protective canopy of oak and beech trees, which had grown from the puny saplings he helped plant. As he closed his eyes in the peaceful darkness, re-living the best years of his life and imagining what could have been if the only girl he had ever and could ever love hadn't abruptly ended their lives together; he was startled by a shadow in the intermittent moonlight. Joey prepared to defend himself from the intruder when he was shocked speechless as a beautiful woman with an athletic build, long reddish brown hair and a crooked smile revealed herself and began drawing his eyes deeper into hers. Mary Ann didn't understand what had lured her back to Beal Gardens until she saw Joey sitting on the concrete bench that they had shared so many years before. Neither one spoke a word. They gently took each other's hand, left where they had originally found love and disappeared into old memories. After the amazing reunion, a depressed Joey sulked on the tarmac, waiting for his flight back to loneliness when he was removed by security guards and escorted to an anxious Mary Ann who had raced to the airport to tell him that she couldn't make the same mistake twice. Late one December evening, in the middle of the worst blizzard in history, they were blessed with the impossible birth of a beautiful baby girl who grew to be one of the greatest gifts from God that the world had ever known. When the power had failed and the house dropped to sub-zero temperatures, Mary Ann decided that was the opportune time to go into labor. Fearing the worst, a panicked Joey sought shelter inside the warmth of his barn's hay room and moved his wife there on the back of his trusted donkey, Milton. Born two months premature to a carpenter/ home builder father and a school teacher mother, Jessica took her first breaths surrounded by a bevy of farm animals and two, shocked, admiring parents. While caring for his new family, a trio of stranded frat boys miraculously found their way through the cold and snow to the safety of Joey's barn where they joined in the celebration of baby Jessica's birth. Raised in a centuries-old "Little White Church", people knew that there was something special about Jessica when she confronted the influx of "new" Christians and a fanatical Reverend who sought to replace it. In search of direction, Jessica embarked on a forty day trip around the country, ending up in a deteriorating and mostly abandoned section of New York City where she was welcomed by Big Mike, the leader of a violent motorcycle gang. Knowing that was where she was supposed to be, she formed a group of loyal women followers who sought to bring hope to the surrounding community. Feeling threated by the change Jessica was causing, Big Mike ordered her death. Betrayed by one of the ladies in her group, Jessica faced her fate unafraid and returned to show the world the path to everlasting life. In Heaven, a visibly annoyed God summoned all who had worked to bring salvation to the world for a second time, to his court room where he presided over a short trial to decide if the world was worth saving, or not. After an intense deliberation, God delivered his verdict and passed sentence, changing the world forever.
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Brother to a Dragonfly

Brother to a Dragonfly

Will D. Campbell; Jimmy Carter; John Lewis

University Press of Mississippi
2018
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In Brother to a Dragonfly, Will D. Campbell writes about his life growing up poor in Amite County, Mississippi, during the 1930s alongside his older brother, Joe. Though they grew up in a close-knit family and cared for each other, the two went on to lead very different lives. After serving together in World War II, Will became a highly educated Baptist minister who later became a major figure in the early years of the civil rights movement, and Joe became a pharmacist who developed a substance abuse problem that ultimately took his life.Brother to a Dragonfly also serves as a historical record. Though Will's love and dedication to his brother are the primary story, interwoven throughout the narrative is the story of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement. Will is present through many of the most pivotal moments in history--he was one of four people who escorted black students integrating the Little Rock public schools; he was the only white person present at the founding of the SCLC; he helped CORE and SNCC Freedom Riders integrate interstate bus travel; he joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s campaign of boycotts, sit-ins, and marches in Birmingham; and he was at the Lorraine Motel the night Dr. King was assassinated.Will's accomplishments, however, never take the spotlight from his brother, and as his relationship with Joe evolves, so does Will's faith. Featuring a new foreword by Congressman John Lewis, this book brings back to print the combined lives of Will Campbell--Will the brother and Will the preacher.
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Brother-Souls

Brother-Souls

Ann Charters; Samuel Charters

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
2024
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John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac’s life they were—in Holmes’s words—"Brother Souls." Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term "Beat Generation" to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother-Souls is the remarkable chronicle of this cornerstone friendship and the life of John Clellon Holmes. From 1948 to 1951, when Kerouac’s wanderings took him back to New York, he and Holmes met almost daily. Struggling to find a form for the novel he intended to write, Kerouac climbed the stairs to the apartment in midtown Manhattan where Holmes lived with his wife to read the pages of Holmes’s manuscript for the novel Go as they left the typewriter. With the pages of Holmes’s final chapter still in his mind, he was at last able to crack his own writing dilemma. In a burst of creation in April 1951, he drew all the materials he had been gathering into the scroll manuscript of On the Road. Biographer Ann Charters was close to John Clellon Holmes for more than a decade. At his death in 1988 she was one of a handful of scholars allowed access to the voluminous archive of letters, journals, and manuscripts Holmes had been keeping for twenty-five years. In that mass of material waited an untold story. These two ambitious writers, Holmes and Kerouac, shared days and nights arguing over what writing should be, wandering from one explosive party to the next, and hanging on the new sounds of bebop. Through the pages of Holmes’s journals, often written the morning after the events they recount, Charters discovered and mined an unparalleled trove describing the seminal figures of the Beat Generation: Holmes, Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and their friends and lovers.
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