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Author | : Dorothy Schwieder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2002-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"Schwieder tells the story of this small town in the West River country, with its harsh and unpredictable physical environment, through the activities of her father, Walter Hubbard, and his family of ten children. Walter Hubbard's experiences as a business owner and town builder and his attitudes toward work, education, and family both reflected and shaped the lives of Presho's inhabitants and the town itself.".
Author | : Corinne Demas |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2000-07-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780791446294 |
This memoir evokes a girl's coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, "utopian" community.
Author | : Chuy Renteria |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2021-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1609388054 |
We Heard It When We Were Young tells the story of a young boy, first-generation Mexican American, who is torn between cultures: between immigrant parents trying to acclimate to midwestern life and a town that is, by turns, supportive and disturbingly antagonistic.
Author | : Sadie Penzato |
Publisher | : Penzato Enterprises |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Robert L. Bingham |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2015-10-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1504952901 |
Growing Up Lansdowne is a photo-illustrated account of the authors childhood and adolescence in the mid to late 1950s and eventful 1960s in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, a conservative Philadelphia suburb. The book is composed of 171 diverse essays depicting growing-up years in Lansdowne. Eight sections titled Random Remembrances record dozens of additional recollections. Assorted photographs are included to accent the narrative. The book is part memoir, part social landscape, part local/national history, and part love story. The recollections reflect candor and vulnerability, and at times they are surprisingly personal. Essays present balanced portraits of family and community life and the general era without resorting to enhancement or exaggeration. By its very design, Growing Up Lansdowne compels readers to make personal comparisons with their own hometowns and upbringing. The text touches upon memorable historical events and sensitive social issues of the times, and their impact on adolescent transition to adulthood.
Author | : Dorothy Schwieder |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2005-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 158729415X |
In this unusual blend of chronological and personal history, Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder combines scholarly sources with family memories to create a loving and informed history of Presho, South Dakota, and her family's life there from the time of settlement in 1905 to the mid 1950s. Schwieder tells the story of this small town in the West River country, with its harsh and unpredictable physical environment, through the activities of her father, Walter Hubbard, and his family of ten children. Walter Hubbard’s experiences as a business owner and town builder and his attitudes toward work, education, and family both reflected and shaped the lives of Presho's inhabitants and the town itself. While most histories of the Plains focus on farm life, Schwieder writes entirely about small-town society. She uses newspaper accounts, state and county histories, census data, interviews with residents, and the childhood memories of herself and her nine siblings to create an entwined, first-hand social and economic portrait of life on main street from the perspective of its citizens.
Author | : Ann Hood |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0393254828 |
“[An] enchanting journey through Ann Hood’s early fascination with reading.… Book lovers will find Morningstar irresistible.”—Lynn Sharon Schwartz, author of Ruined by Reading Growing up in a mill town in Rhode Island, in a household that didn’t foster a love of reading, novelist Ann Hood discovered nonetheless the transformative power of literature. She learned to channel her imagination, ambitions, and curiosity by devouring ever-growing stacks of books. In Morningstar, Hood recollects with warmth and honesty how The Bell Jar, Marjorie Morningstar, The Harrad Experiment, and The Outsiders influenced her teen psyche and introduced her to topics that could not be discussed at home: desire, fear, sexuality, and madness. Later, Johnny Got His Gun and Grapes of Wrath dramatically influenced her political thinking while the Vietnam War and Kent State shootings became headline news, and classics such as Dr. Zhivago and Les Misérables stoked her ambitions to travel the world. With characteristic insight and charm, Hood showcases the ways in which books gave her life and can transform—even save—our own lives.
Author | : Kristen Iversen |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2013-06-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307955656 |
“An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice—soon to be a feature documentary Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets--both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats--best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities. Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving.
Author | : Dan & Connie Burkhardt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692691441 |
Author | : Craig S. Barnes |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2001-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1555917895 |
Written in a compellingly simple style, Growing Up True evokes the struggles of a boy stretching for manhood in rural Colorado during and after World War II. But the lessons and demands of real life always nipped at the edges of his fantastic dreams.