Motel Sepia
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Motel Sepia
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Author : Dale Kueter
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2016-07-30
Motel Sepia written by Dale Kueter and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-30 with Fiction categories.
fromMotel Sepia . . . Roy picked up a pebble and casually tossed it into a part of the stream where water had pooled. He watched the widening ripple. Every action we take, he pondered, produces some form of reaction.Parts of the ripple bumped into the surrounding bank and were repelled, while other parts filtered through reeds, engulfing them gently. Another section of the growing undulation was quickly swallowed by the force of moving water. . . . Just a few hours ago this man was enjoying life. How can this be? Byrne fought off the impulse to consider that killing was part of mans nature, an inherited trait that was not discarded after the Stone Age. Do we exit our mothers womb with an intrinsic proclivity to harm others? Is the belief of most religions that man is basically good is that wrong? . . . The two people, entangled in the rigors of bad decisions, traveled through one of the most bountiful regions on Earth, but were bound in the poverty of mutual anxiety. The marrow of their existence was soured by servitude. It was a tragedy in which a crime was consummated, and the usual joyous condition ofa honeymoon reduced to contrivance. *Other books by DaleKueter Vietnam Sons The Smell of the Soil *Available at: Author House, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Fly In The Buttermilk
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Author : Cecil Reed
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 1993
Fly In The Buttermilk written by Cecil Reed and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born in 1913 in Collinsville, Illinois, Cecil Reed has lived all of his life in the Midwest as a black man among whites. This self-styled fly in the buttermilk worked among whites with such skill and grace that they were barely aware of his existence - unless he wanted to get a bank loan or move into their neighborhood. Now, in his lively and optimistic autobiography, he speaks of his resilience throughout a life spent working peacefully but passionately for equality. As a teenager and young man, Cecil Reed was the black waiter, the short-order cook, the paper carrier, the tap dancer and singer, the carpenter, and the maintenance man who learned to survive in a white society. As an adult in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he inched his way into owning several small businesses, convincing the community to accept him and his family through hard work and creativity. When whites felt besieged by black militants in the sixties, they turned to him for less threatening advice and leadership. Reed put away his floor sander and became an inspiring speaker who crisscrossed the country offering solutions to civil rights problems. In 1966, Reed was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives, the first and only black Republican to hold this office. His next major triumph: securing a unanimous vote of approval for the state's fair housing bill. Within a year he was appointed by a Democratic governor to the Iowa Employment Security Commission, becoming the first black commissioner in America. Thus began a twenty-year career in public service in both state and federal positions that brought him into partnership with the nation's political, economic, and religious leaders. Throughout his sometimes tragic butalways hope-filled life, from shoeshine stand to Department of Labor, Cecil Reed has been a quiet, persistent, realistically-within-the-system fighter for justice. Although he epitomizes the success of his "get along by getting along" philosophy, he still confronts racism daily, still feels "in harm's way", still works for equal rights for all. Every reader will appreciate his honest, energizing, pragmatic chronicle of a life before and after the Civil Rights Act.
Lost Cedar Rapids
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Author : Peter D. Looney
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2020
Lost Cedar Rapids written by Peter D. Looney and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
Cedar Rapids is the only city in America to house its government offices on an island. But tons of other iconic structures that defined the city are no longer around. The Little Gallery on First Avenue was created to showcase local artists. Yager's "moved up to bring prices down." The area was home to thirty-nine theaters, including two from 1928 that are still in operation. From the hotels to the factories, the ethnic districts to the depots, the dance halls to the amusement parks, these are the places that made a difference in the City of Five Seasons. Local author Pete Looney traces the history of the structures.
Hidden History Of Youngstown And The Mahoning Valley
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Author : Sean T. Posey
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2022
Hidden History Of Youngstown And The Mahoning Valley written by Sean T. Posey and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
Join the author of Historic Theaters of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley and Lost Youngstown in an excavation of forgotten stories from bygone days. Beyond steel and rust, Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley share a rich, but often overlooked past. During the late 1910s, the ever-present smoke blanketing the area could not hide the fires from the burning business district of East Youngstown or the city streets deserted from Spanish influenza. Over twenty years later, the Mahoning Valley lived under another dark cloud, the Great Depression, but instead of violence and destruction, the men and women of the WPA busied themselves with building up the region and dreaming of better days. Journalist and historian Sean Posey excavates the history behind familiar landmarks, forgotten institutions, and historic sites that connect Mahoning Valley history to the story of the evolution of industrial America.
The Jefferson Highway
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Author : Lyell D. Henry
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2016-04-15
The Jefferson Highway written by Lyell D. Henry and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with History categories.
Today American motorists can count on being able to drive to virtually any town or city in the continental United States on a hard surface. That was far from being true in the early twentieth century, when the automobile was new and railroads still dominated long-distance travel. Then, the roads confronting would-be motorists were not merely bad, they were abysmal, generally accounted to be the worst of those of all the industrialized nations. The plight of the rapidly rising numbers of early motorists soon spawned a “good roads” movement that included many efforts to build and pave long-distance, colorfully named auto trails across the length and breadth of the nation. Full of a can-do optimism, these early partisans of motoring sought to link together existing roads and then make them fit for automobile driving—blazing, marking, grading, draining, bridging, and paving them. The most famous of these named highways was the Lincoln Highway between New York City and San Francisco. By early 1916, a proposed counterpart coursing north and south from Winnipeg to New Orleans had also been laid out. Called the Jefferson Highway, it eventually followed several routes through Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The Jefferson Highway, the first book on this pioneering road, covers its origin, history, and significance, as well as its eventual fading from most memories following the replacement of names by numbers on long-distance highways after 1926. Saluting one of the most important of the early named highways on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, historian Lyell D. Henry Jr. contributes to the growing literature on the earliest days of road-building and long-distance motoring in the United States. For readers who might also want to drive the original route of the Jefferson Highway, three chapters trace that route through Iowa, pointing out many vintage features of the roadside along the way. The perfect book for a summer road trip!
Sepia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Sepia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with African Americans categories.
The Lincoln Highway Forum
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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Hotel And Travel Index Worldwide
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
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The Life And Work Of John Ruskin
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Author : William Gershom Collingwood
language : en
Publisher: Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin
Release Date : 1894
The Life And Work Of John Ruskin written by William Gershom Collingwood and has been published by Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.
The Life And Work Of John Ruskin
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Author : W. G. Collingwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
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