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Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes

Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes

Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, Katherine Ledford

The modern poets in this collection share the eastern reverence for the natural world -- they desire to create a poetry of belonging, of elemental contact with something much larger than the self.
Brachygraphy ... Improved by Joseph Gurney, and now ...

Brachygraphy ... Improved by Joseph Gurney, and now ...

Thomas Gurney

Thomas Gurney, Joseph GURNEY, William Brodie GURNEY. To. MR. THOMAS. GURNEY,. ON HIS JBOOK OF SHORT. WRITING. Culpantur frustra calami.-HoR. BY intuition is the Seraph taught To read the mind, and interchange the thought, ...
Discriminations: Essays & Afterthoughts

Discriminations: Essays & Afterthoughts

Dwight Macdonald

In his last collection of writings, the late Dwight MacDonald here casts a penetrating gaze on such diverse phenomena as Hemingway, the Constitution, George Orwell, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, the Chicago Conspirarry Trial, Hannah Arendt, ...
Brachygraphy: or Short-writing made easy to the meanest capacity

Brachygraphy: or Short-writing made easy to the meanest capacity

Thomas Gurney

Thomas Gurney Joseph Gurney. I am, however, very far from presuming to suppose, that I have carried this Art to its ne plus ultra, or highest point of Perfection. On the contrary, I shall deem myself exceedingly obliged to any Gentleman, who ...
Birds of prey in Connecticut: a guide to finding and ...

Birds of prey in Connecticut: a guide to finding and ...

Gene Billings

54. Devine, Arnold, and Dwight G. Smith, "Eastern Screech Owl (Otus Asio) Mortality in Southern Connecticut," The Connecticut Warbler, Vol. V No. 4, October 1985, pp. 47-48. Devine, Arnold, and Dwight G. Smith, "Site Guide: Birder's Guide to ...
The Trial of Edward Marcus Despard, Esquire: For High ...

The Trial of Edward Marcus Despard, Esquire: For High ...

Joseph Gurney

For High Treason, at the Session House, Newington, Surry, on Monday the Seventh of February, 1803 Joseph Gurney, William Brodie Gurney. of finding any man whatever guilty of a capital offence ? Gentlemen, you have been told that in  ...
Shaw's Union Officers' and Local Boards of Health Manual for ...

Shaw's Union Officers' and Local Boards of Health Manual for ...

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John Harvey Harvey, Norwich Daniel Gurney, Lynn Robert J. H.Harvey, Norwich John Henry Gurney, Norwich R. J. H. Harvey. Norwich R. J. H. narvey, Norwich R. J. H. Harvey, Norwich John Henry Gurney, Norwich Daniel Gurney, Norwich ...
The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in ...

The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in ...

Dwight B. Billings

Intended for social scientists, historians, and readers interested in social change and social poverty, this book examines the roots of entrenched poverty in Appalachia.
John Shaw Billings: Science and Medicine in the Gilded Age

John Shaw Billings: Science and Medicine in the Gilded Age

James H. Cassedy

This book explores Billings as a leader of the Amedical revolution@ and the public health movement of the late 19th century.
The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass

The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass

Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight

[Eighth Generation.] 6215. ii. Jonathan Dwight, 3d (son of Jonathan Dwight, Jr., and Ann Rarriett), b. Aug. 29, 18:i1, m. Feb. 2,i, 1857, Julia Lawrence Hasbrouek, b. April 1, 1836 (dau. of Garret D. Hasbrouck of New York, and Julia Lawrence).
Historic Restaurants of Billings

Historic Restaurants of Billings

Stella Fong

I thank Greg Patent, who has been a mentor, supporter and friend from the culinary world. He has always led by example—sharing passion and hard work. Many thanks to Cody Allen and Dee Ann Redman at the Billings Public Library for their ...
Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath

Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath

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Dwight B. Billings, Mary Beth Pudup, and Altina Waller, 103–31 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995); John Inscoe and Robert Kenzer, eds., “ Enemies of the Country”: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South ...
The Fleet Histories Series: The Mack, Becker, Jenkins, ...

The Fleet Histories Series: The Mack, Becker, Jenkins, ...

John Orville Greenwood

... Ships of the Great Lakes - Dwight Boyer Great Stories of the Great Lakes - Dwight Boyer True Tales of the Great Lakes - Dwight Boyer Ships and Men of the Great Lakes - Dwight Boyer Strange Adventures of the Great Lakes - Dwight Boyer ...
The Norman Maclean Reader

The Norman Maclean Reader

Norman Maclean

Norman Maclean O. Alan Weltzien. Paul Maclean in a photograph by Norman Maclean, late 19305. Norman was an enthusiastic amateur photographer. ( clockwisefrom top left) Paul Maclean, Jessie Burns Maclean, and Norman.
Gourley Generations: Tenn., N.C., & Ky

Gourley Generations: Tenn., N.C., & Ky

Sam Gourley

26 Jan 1912 bur. Milburn cem Mil burn, KY children Ida Ella Ledford b. 30 June 1870 Trigg co. KY d. 4 Dec. 1959 bur. Milburn cem. Milburn, KY Fa. Edmund Lee Ledford Mo. Mary E. McKinney Mary Elizabeth Gourley b. 6 Apr. 1889 Carlisle co.
The Five Fleets of James A. Paisley & Fourteen Fleets of ...

The Five Fleets of James A. Paisley & Fourteen Fleets of ...

John Orville Greenwood

... Ships of the Great Lakes - Dwight Boyer Great Stories of the Great Lakes - Dwight Boyer True Tales of the Great Lakes - Dwight Boyer Ships and Men of the Great Lakes - Dwight Boyer Strange Adventures of the Great Lakes - Dwight Boyer ...
2011

2011

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BILES (Roger), 4182. BILES (Zachary P.), 1298. BILLEN (Claire), 3098. BILLER ( Peter), 3062. BILLERBECK (Margarethe), 2189. BILLESCHOU CHRISTANSEN ( Søren), 3364. BILLIET (Frederic), 658. BILLINGS (Joshua), 5489. BILLINGS ...
Billings families of North Carolina and Virginia

Billings families of North Carolina and Virginia

Alice M. Billings

For information gleaned from two books, especially, vn want to express special thanks and deep appreciation for permission to use their data in this book: To Mrs . Lorene Moxley Sturgill, whose book, Hoppers, Moxley, Toliver, and Related ...
Dwight Diller: West Virginia Mountain Musician

Dwight Diller: West Virginia Mountain Musician

Lewis M. Stern

Sometime in 2006 or so I played one or two banjos build by Jeff Kramer that were designed specifically for Dwight Diller. Dwight wanted a travel banjo, a banjo that would break down easily and assemble with little trouble. I remember playing ...
Testimonies Concerning Joseph Gurney and Isaac Stephenson

Testimonies Concerning Joseph Gurney and Isaac Stephenson

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A TESTIMONY Of Norwich Monthly MEETING, respecting JOSEPH GURNEY, who died on the 25th of the 12th Month, in his 74th Year, a Minister Twenty-one Years. This, our dear and valued friend, was the third and youngest son of John and ...
Household and Privy Purse Accounts of the Lestranges of ...

Household and Privy Purse Accounts of the Lestranges of ...

Daniel Gurney

Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries Daniel Gurney. and the very great variation in the price of wheat showing the uncertainty of the supply. - You will observe repeated mention of articles of “gist,” and articles of “store;” the former, ...
Dwight and the Trilobite

Dwight and the Trilobite

Kelli C. Foster

Dwight and his mother Mrs. Knight go hunting for trilobites.
Mortals

Mortals

Norman Rush

Norman Rush ... A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2003 Copyright ©2003by Norman Rush The right of Norman Rush to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with theCopyright , ...
Extract of the Rejected Applications of the Guion Miller ...

Extract of the Rejected Applications of the Guion Miller ...

Jo Ann Curls Page

... Emma GA 1878 George Ash Mart Margret Ledford John & Nancy Ledford Williamson 9502 Ash, George GA 1867 Emma Ash David Ash Elisabeth Davenport John & Elisabeth Davenport 17347 Ash, Harvey GA 1887 Caroline Ash David Ash ...
Interviews with Dwight Macdonald

Interviews with Dwight Macdonald

Dwight Macdonald

Dwight. Macdonald. F. Anthony Macklin / 1972 From Film Heritage 7.3 (Spring 1972), pp. 13-34. Reprinted by permission of F. Anthony Macklin. Interviewer: You have not been writing a regular column now for five years or so. Do you miss  ...
Who Ran the Cities?: City Elites and Urban Power Structures ...

Who Ran the Cities?: City Elites and Urban Power Structures ...

Ralf Roth

One example of this new elite was Daniel Gurney, who came from a prestigious banking family, wellknown for its Quaker affiliation. The Quaker Daniel Gurney attained significant wealth through his banking business but held no political office ...
Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of ...

Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of ...

Timothy D. Whelan

See Baptist Annual Register, 1:3; 3:4; Baptist Magazine 6 (1814): 425. Gurney, William Brodie (1777-1855) — Gurney succeeded his father, Joseph (1744-1815 ), as shorthand writer for the Old Bailey and for parliament; his older brother, John  ...

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