![]() ![]() One of the men who welcomed Brown as he struggled out of the crate was a young Black office clerk named William Still. The half-day voyage turned into a 27-hour journey, but Brown arrived safely, cramped but alive. Against the advice of a white shopkeeper who agreed to help him, Brown decided on a far-fetched plan to pack himself inside a shipping crate and mail himself to the offices of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society at 107 North 5th Street in Philadelphia. After watching slave traders carry away his wife and children, he vowed to escape to the North and raise enough money to buy his family’s freedom.īut how to do it? Escaping slavery was always dangerous, especially when fleeing from a city as far south as Richmond. SOMETIME IN the fall of 1848, Henry Brown, an enslaved person living in Richmond, Virginia, made a decision. ![]()
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![]() Without the benefits of radio, television, or internet, Americans at this point had only learned of the world through books, primarily European, and only those rich enough to travel had much fresh insight on other cultures. The title however suggests that the passengers are just that: Innocents. But Twain being Twain, he ripped into his fellow passengers for their narrow-minded perspectives, Americans who think they're worldly because they've read a few guide books. Mark Twain was among this flock of American tourists as they visited the great sites such as the Louvre in Paris, Florence, and Rome and a meeting with Czar Alexander II in the Crimea. Only a few years after the Civil War, this six-month voyage on the steamer "Quaker City" was arranged by famous pastor Henry Ward Beecher and General Sherman (neither of whom made the trip). He'd sent letters to the newspapers about his steamship voyage through Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land, commenting the whole way in his honest, funny, and sardonic style. ![]() ![]() Mark Twain's 1869 book The Innocents Abroad or, The New Pilgrims' Progress is a humorous travelogue of a voyage Twain undertook two years earlier. ![]() ![]() ![]() Twelve years later on June 30, 2003, McCloskey died at his home in Deer Isle, Maine. Three others of his picture books are set on the coast and concern the sea. McCloskey's wife and eldest daughter Sally are reputed to be the models for little Sal and her mother in Blueberries for Sal (1948), a picture book set on a "Blueberry Hill" in the vicinity. ![]() They had two daughters, Sally and Jane, and settled in New York State, spending summers on Scott Island, a small island off Little Deer Isle in East Penobscot Bay. In 1940, he married Peggy Durand, daughter of the children's writer Ruth Sawyer. After Vesper George he moved to New York City for study at the National Academy of Design. McCloskey was born in Hamilton, Ohio, during 1914 and reached Boston in 1932 with a scholarship to study at Vesper George Art School. ![]() He was also the writer for Make Way For Ducklings, as well as the illustrator for The Man Who Lost His Head. Four of those eight books were set in Maine: Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, Time of Wonder, and Burt Dow, Deep-water Man the last three all on the coast. He both wrote and illustrated eight picture books and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association recognizing the year's best-illustrated picture book. John Robert McCloskey was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. ![]() ![]() ![]() If a gender is to be assumed, that gender will be female. Though women-centric, we welcome all beings interested in using their esoteric powers to destroy the Patriarchy and all its constraints on women, men, and everybody in between or beyond. ![]() ![]() Taking a more historic approach to the concept of Witches, we channel the spirit of the those who have been persecuted as part of a thinly veiled systemic oppression of feminine power. ✨ Join our Discord coven ✨Ĭan I be a Witch if I don't actually believe in anything? If you do not consider yourself an ally, then this subreddit is not for you. This subreddit is a Safe Space for Women, BIPOC, and anyone in the LGBTQ+ community. The goal is to at once embrace, and poke fun at, the mystical aspects of femininity that have been previously demonized and/or devalued by the Patriarchy. R/WitchesVsPatriarchy is a woman-centered sub with a witchy twist, aimed at healing, supporting, and uplifting one another through humor and magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() As each of them faces questions about their future, Sydney must make an important decision about her and Ridge's relationship.įilled with "true emotion, unforgettable characters, and just the right amount of sexual tension" ( Kirkus Reviews), this collection is the perfect gift for Colleen Hoover fans. She includes Ridge on her adventures, raising Sydney's suspicions. Picking up where Maybe Someday left off, Maybe Now concludes the magical series as Maggie grapples with her illness and determination to live life to the fullest. ![]() Nevertheless, Warren is determined to woo the passionate and fiery Bridgette, if only she'd stop fighting him long enough to see how charming he is. But the wrong kind of sparks fly, with the two barely able to stand being around one another. Maybe Now - A Novel Volume 3 17.99 Maybe Someda圜olleen Hoover Maybe Someday 14.61 The Maybe Someday. In Maybe Not, a spinoff novella to Maybe Someday, Ridge's roommate Warren jumps at the chance to have a female roommate. Maybe Now - A Novel Volume 3Colleen Hoover. Facing an uncertain future, she finds herself increasingly entranced by her mysterious neighbor, Ridge. In Maybe Someday, college student Sydney is devastated when she discovers that her beloved boyfriend is cheating on her. ![]() At twenty-two years old, Sydney is enjoying. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us and It Starts with Us, the "brilliant and realistic" (Tracey Garvis Graves, New York Times bestselling author) Maybe Someday trilogy about friendship, loyalty, and love-now in one exclusive ebook collection. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a passionate tale of friendship, betrayal, and romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "I hated sheep at first, but they growed on me. It is a sacrifice that any self-respecting cattleman would regret, but a man has to do what a man has to do. In his seventies, Wes is not facing drought, though like Charlie he is forced to run sheep on his west Texas hill country ranch because they are profitable, which allows him to stay in the cattle business which isn't profitable. Wes Hendricks, the primary protagonist of The Man Who Rode Midnight is cut from the same cloth and could be viewed as the reincarnation of Charlie twenty years down the road. It was the story of Charlie Flagg, a tough-minded Texas rancher who in the 1950s was hanging on with all he had as he tried to survive the worse drought to hit that part of Texas since the Dust Bowl days of the '30s. It is The Time It Never Rained, which one admiring critic conceded wasn't "the Great American Novel," but may very well be "the Great Texas Novel." Back in 1973 Elmer Kelton published his most critically acclaimed novel, one that won both Spur and Western Heritage awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() I got about a third of the way through the walls of text Lovecraft threw up at me, and I simply didn't have the heart to go on. ![]() Instead you see a writer working and reworking ideas and themes (including characters and character names) until the truly classic stories evolve. Also, seeing the Cthulhu Mythos as an intentionally consistent and coherent whole was probably not foremost in Lovecraft's mind either. A lot of this has been tacked on by later reviewers and analyzers, August Derleth being probably the worst offender. ![]() At the same time I think way too much is made of Lovecraft's conception of his dream-cycle works as a connected whole at all. One thing you can see in this collection is a working out of themes and ideas that he used again and again in his dream-cycle stories. Writers like Dunsany and Eddison and Machen did this sort of thing much better than Lovecraft. I admittedly am not a big fan of Lovecraft's "prose poem" dream-cycle stuff, preferring his horror and scifi stuff (yes, The Whisperer in Darkness is a scifi story, not a horror story). Even so, Kadath itself meanders all over the place and parts of it vary greatly in quality. Of the "stories" in this book I would only call The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath a classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How else can you defend yourself against losing your hi-fi equipment, your TV set and computer? The respected Executive Director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son, Duncan, has committed murder. What kind of loyalty A house gun, like a house cat: a fact of ordinary life, today. ![]() A house gun, like a house cat: a fact of ordinary life, today. ![]() ![]() It’s hard for me to be objective about these books, as I read them when I was young and the movie versions were family favorites. It’s June 1st! Welcome to our discussion of Shane by Jack Schaefer and True Grit by Charles Portis. “Quite simply, an American masterpiece” - Boston Globeĭiscussion begins June 1st. “Mattie’s voice, wry and sure, is one of the great creations of modern American fiction.” - George Pelecanos, NPR ![]() It was recently selected for the 2020-2021 Big Read book list by the National Endowment for the Arts. ![]() True Grit was published in 1968 and has maintained its popularity for over 50 years. The book almost demands completion in one sitting.” - Library Journal “The author has created a tale which captivates the reader’s attention from beginning to end. “Shane is a work of literature first and a Western second.” - St. Shane was published in 1949 and is considered a Young Adult classic. Both first person novels recount a pivotal experience in the life of the young narrator (Joey Starrett in Shane and Mattie Ross in True Grit) and an unexpected connection with a stranger who plays a key role in a time of crisis.īoth tales were originally told in serial form: Shane (as “Rider from Nowhere”) in Argosy magazine and True Grit in The Saturday Evening Post. Our June selection is an iconic Western duet: Shane by Jack Schaefer and True Grit by Charles Portis. ![]() ![]() In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).ĭrawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings-asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass-offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. A graceful, illuminating study of the wisdom of the natural world, from a world-renowned indigenous scientistĪs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. ![]() |