The Last Trolley Stop, Heber Bouland's eyewitness account of the Great Depression, gives a candid and honest examination of a pivotal time in American history. His narrative has humor, the naughty, and the tragic. When President Roosevelt was inaugurated for the first time, Heber Bouland was a few weeks shy of his fifth birthday and too young to understand the many effects of the Great Depression that surrounded him. Bouland lived with his family in Takoma Park, at the northern edge of Washington, DC, a neighborhood of contradictions. A US senator lived there in a fine house. White homebuyers signed agreements not to resell to "coloreds." Seventh-day Adventists, a nationwide religious minority, were dominant there. Yet this privileged, segregated community also included two small poverty-stricken ghettos inhabited by African-Americans-the very "darkies" the whites were so desperate to avoid. Visits to his uncle's small tobacco farm in western Kentucky, where he witnessed toddlers laboring in tobacco fields, gave him a rural perspective of the depression. Bouland saw firsthand the devastating effects of depression era bigotry, religious hypocrisy, and poverty-effects he accepted as a child, but that appalled him as an adult.
MARK PACER is an outsider from Mocking Bird, Georgia, when he arrives in Washington, D.C. for diplomatic training in 1976. His fellow Georgian, Jimmy Carter, is running for president, and the Vietnamese conflict has ended, but legacies remain from war protesters and hippies.Mark's academic credentials from a Southern university are brilliant, but he pronounces words like "my" with an accent as long as the distance from Mocking Bird to the Atlantic Ocean. Plus, in a last, angry meeting with his father, the older man berated Mark for choosing such a "highfalutin'" profession.Maybe his father is right. Not only has Mark broken with his father, but he falls in love with a woman in his Foreign Service class, Reye Quinnell, who surely has no interest in a hillbilly. If that weren't enough, Mark is the chief suspect for an act of racist vandalism against a fellow classmate. After all, he's the one with the Southern accent, right? Should he return to the place he knows best, where his ancestors have lived for generations?Mark works against time to reconcile with his father as well as find the vandalism culprit. And what about his growing friendship with Reye? Soon, training will end. Then he and his colleagues will leave for different countries to begin their careers, separated by thousands of miles.
Written by a close friend using recorded interviews with Minner, the assistance of Selby Minner, bandmate and wife, with family, band, and festival photos, this biography of D.C. Minner offers a candid look inside the man and gives a whirlwind tour of his life of music.
This book examines the extraordinary life and career of Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (October 14, 1856-November 3, 1928). She was a pioneering American woman in many respects. Scidmore traveled to the American frontiers, such as the Dakota territory and the Alaskan wilderness-including the Aleutians-and wrote the first travel guide to Alaska. She was also the first female regular correspondent for National Geographic, and wrote extensively about exotic places in the Far East. Moreover, Scidmore was the original proponent for transplanting Japanese flowering cherry trees to the area around the Potomac tidal basin. However, few records of her life have been preserved, and her life is shrouded in mystery. It is high time that she be given overdue credit for enlightening Americans about exotic cultures, in general, and for introducing the Japanese flowering cherry trees to the U.S. capital, in particular.
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