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The Minnie Years And Julia Town
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Author : ANNE COSTON-BAGBY
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2010-04-01
The Minnie Years And Julia Town written by ANNE COSTON-BAGBY and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Fiction categories.
My Aunt Minnie was a tyrant. Nothing gave her more pleasure than to rear back on the hocks of her legs, arms akimbo, and Bellow at people in such a belligerent voice they were reduced to a state of nothingness. Cunning, greed and deceit were parts of her outward character discernible at all times, but her strong filial tendencies were known only to those in close contact with her. Aunt Minnie was a tall woman, close to five feet ten inches in height, weighing somewhere in the two hundreds. A wide face, small eyes spaced close together, gave her the look of a pouncing hawk. Needless to say, we stood in communal awe of her. We, being my nine brothers and sisters, entrusted into her care by my well-meaning, misguided father, whose only fault laid in his pride as sole provider of a family the size of ours. Father looked on the acceptance of charily in any form as a cardinal sin. Therefore; when times became hard, we were packed up and shipped off to a small rural parish in North Carolina, under the auspices of Minnie Although we were forced to submit to her absolute rule, there were times, to give the Devil his due, when she was most kind to us. As time passed, we learned to mistrust these moments of kindness . . . They seemed to precede Aunt Minnie at her worst. Now that I am grown and know something of Aunt Minnie’s history, I am more given to understand her whole character. She was, according to my grandmother, never satisfied with her status in their small family which consisted of herself, my grandmother, and their mother. Born some months after the death of my great-grandfather, she was never sure she could rightfully claim the legitimacy that fell naturally to my grandmother, who enjoyed the safety of being born during the lifetime of their father. Consequently, she was a difficult child who grew to womanhood with a warped sense of love-hate toward her mother, sister and the whole world. This too would explain her late marriage. Having developed a tongue and temper akin to razor sharpness, it was a complete surprise when at the “old-age” of twenty-nine, she married a “ships’-hang-about” in Newport News, Virginia, and brought him home to the small house she rented on Charles Street in Norfolk, Virginia. Her husband, Samuel Bell was born of a dying mother in the early eighteen nineties. His birth date was never officially recorded. After the death of his mother, with no one claiming relationship and still an infant, he was sent by the authority in place to Suffolk Foundling, the County Home for orphaned Negro children. There he remained until he reached the age of eighteen. At age thirty two Sam, a loner with a heavy drinking problem, attended a June Nineteenth Masonic Picnic. There he met an unattached spinster; Miss Minnie DeComtessa Louisiana Blount, my Aunt Minnie. After the marriage, she supplied him with a push cart, work card, and a contract to sell bushels of wood from a local lumber yard, and promptly set about making this poor spineless creature’s life a living hell for the next five years. When my mother was ten years old, Aunt Minnie gave birth to twin daughters. She was thirty-four years old at the time, and the combined facts of not being a younger woman, a difficult pregnancy, and a growing realization that she had married a lazy, shiftless man whose sole ambition was “jist to git by for today,” drove her to extreme fits of temper. Each week during her pregnancy, no matter how inclement the weather or morning sickness, she would trudge the twelve blocks or so in front of or beside, (never behind) her husband’s push cart, haranguing him all the way with foul words and name calling. When they reached the lumber yard, it was she who would sign for the amount of wood to be sold that week, her husband being completely illiterate. Each week the amount would be increased. On the day she gave birth, despite her labor pains, she made him get up earlier than usual (
Annual Report Of The Board Of Education Of The City Of St Louis Mo For The Year Ending
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Author : Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education
language : en
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Release Date : 1873
Annual Report Of The Board Of Education Of The City Of St Louis Mo For The Year Ending written by Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Public schools categories.
Canaan S Temple
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Author : ANNE COSTON-BAGBY
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2010-05-12
Canaan S Temple written by ANNE COSTON-BAGBY and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-12 with Fiction categories.
Captain Thomas Benjamin Coston, heir to heavily mortgaged properties left to him by his recently deceased father, whose death initiates a desperate attempt of retrieval, prompting a trip to Santo Domingo, island home of Raphael Delsantos, wealthy patron and acquirer of the captains land and plantation home, Canaan’s Temple. Duped into marriage with the patron’s only daughter, he enters into a nest of mystery and infamy, spanning two continents and extending into the very bowels of the war of 1812. This is a story of a love-hate relationship enmeshed in duplicity and intrigue.
Fifth Ninth Seventeenth Annual Report Of The City Superintendent Of Public Schools Of The City Of Portland
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Author : Portland Oregon, public sch
language : en
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Release Date : 1883
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Dust Motes
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Author : Anne Coston-Bagby
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2010-02
Dust Motes written by Anne Coston-Bagby and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02 with Poetry categories.
Dust Motes (1) Dust Motes in color, flit in and out of mind. Dust Motes in color, leave uncharted thoughts behind. Caught up in currents, unseen and unknown, Dust Motes in color; release my soul to roam, In and out of reality, to swirl and twirl in totality. Knowing that my future flies, between the light and darkening Dust Motes of your lies.
History Of St Clair County Michigan
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language : en
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Release Date : 1883
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Real Estate Record And Builders Guide
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language : en
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Release Date : 1884
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Documents Of The City Of Boston
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Author : Boston (Mass.). City Council
language : en
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Release Date : 1875
Documents Of The City Of Boston written by Boston (Mass.). City Council and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Boston (Mass.) categories.
Proceedings Of The Board Of Public Instruction Of The City Of Albany
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language : en
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Release Date : 1887
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Haunts Of The White City Ghost Stories From The World S Fair The Great Fire And Victorian Chicago
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Author : Ursula Bielski
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2019
Haunts Of The White City Ghost Stories From The World S Fair The Great Fire And Victorian Chicago written by Ursula Bielski and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
"At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors. Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new boulevards and tragic accidents plagued the factories, slums and railroads that powered the churn of industrial innovation. Demons, mesmerists and birds of ill omen preyed on the unwary from the shadows. Ship captains spoke to the dead, while undertakers discovered reanimated corpses no longer requiring services. From posh mansions built on massacre grounds to the drowned quarries of a forest preserve, Ursula Bielski follows the dark undercurrents beneath the electric lights of the World's Fair."--