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10 produkter
World Through the Dime Store Door
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2020
305 kr
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A coming-of-age memoir evoking farm, mining, and small-town life in Alabama’s Tuscaloosa County as the world transitions from the Great Depression to World War IIIn the 1930s, the rural South was in the throes of the Great Depression. Farm life was monotonous and hard, but a timid yet curious …
When the Wolf Camped at Our Door
My Childhood in the Great Depression
Inbunden, 2022
305 kr
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Recounts the difficulties and joys the Kilgore family and their neighbors experienced in a close-knit rural community during the Great Depression As the Great Depression tightened its grip on the world, there were six Henderson’s living in a cramped farmhouse in Brookwood, Alabama. Crops couldn’t …
World through the Dime Store Door
A Memoir
E-bok, 2020
378 kr
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A coming-of-age memoir evoking farm, mining, and small-town life in Alabama’s Tuscaloosa County as the world transitions from the Great Depression to World War II In the 1930s, the rural South was in the throes of the Great Depression. Farm life was monotonous and hard, but a timid yet curious …
When the Wolf Camped at Our Door
My Childhood in the Great Depression
E-bok, 2022
378 kr
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Recounts the hardships and joys the Kilgore family and their neighbors experienced in a close-knit southern rural community during the Great Depression As the Great Depression tightened its grip on the world, six members of the Kilgore family were living in a cramped farmhouse in Brookwood, …
Tenderfoot Teacher
Letters from the Big Bend, 1952-1954
Häftad, 2002
188 kr
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In January 1952, Aileen Kilgore was teaching forty-three fourth graders at a public school in Northport, Alabama. Her life, filled with lesson preparations, in- service meetings, countrywide meetings, and special projects, seemed grim, and she resolved to change it. Remembering tales she'd heard of …
Horses of Lost Valley
E-bok, 2016
61 kr
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Tillery Hubbs, a twelve-year-old wimp in 1960s San Diego, discovers a neglected horse in Lost Valley. Struggling against the horses wealthy ownerand his own familyTill succeeds in saving the horse. He gains the courage to fight flood and fire and protect the other horses of Lost Valley. But when a …
Eugene Allen Smith's Alabama
How a Geologist Shaped a State
Inbunden, 2011
808 kr
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In 1871 when the University of Alabama reopened after its destruction by federal troops, Eugene Allen Smith returned to his alma mater as professor of geology and mineralogy. After persuading the legislature to appoint him state geologist in 1873, he spent his summers enduring chills, fevers, and …
Stateside Soldier
Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945
Inbunden, 2001
426 kr
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I DON'T KNOW ANYBODY who has ever done such a daring thing as I have done,"" twenty-two-year-old Aileen Kilgore of Brookwood, Alabama, wrote in her diary in January 1944, after enlisting in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. From basic training in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, to her …
