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Determined to see all forty-eight states, Oliver Janvier sets off to learn more about the world than can be found in books or taught at school. Along the way he drifts from job to job, moves in and out of relationships, and is also witness to the Larchmont disaster and to his own brothers history-making athletic career. Spanning five decades of American history, Gather No Moss is a classic story of American wanderlust, stubborn independence, and the insatiable quest for new adventure.
Take a college baseball coach and have chosen for you an assistant with no baseball experience. Now, combine them with a Japanese contingent of players who speak no English. Add beautiful Rhonda, a streetwise stickball player; some skydiving; a baseball schedule that includes an elementary school, a local prison; a cross-dressing athletic director; and a wise-cracking announcer, and watch them fumble their way through a baseball season. An Internal Affairs detective and a Benton County police officer, will help put private detective E.J. Cord onto the trial of his friend's killer. He will have to cross the U.S. and in doing so, will run into a host of misadventures. Kidnapping, drugs, and murder, will be on his menu. Will he ever be able to quiet the guilt that constantly haunts his dreams...that he was the cause of her murder? Her murdered friends only transgression, was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The 'time and place' was ever having known E.J. Cord.
Account of northern Australia, 1880s; p.10-11; Yanta Wonta tribe, Nappamerrie, stacked firewood at native grave Tanbar; p.14-17; Queensland policy in subduing tribes, trade routes of Warramungas & Waggires, articles traded, flint quarry 6 miles east of Renners Springs; black troopers near Mulligan River; p.42-44; Native attacked with nulla nulla near Burketown & Camooweal; p.47-53; Story of half-caste Joe Flick & police, Burketown; p.74-78; Clashes with whites Kimberley area, many cases of native help; p.119-121; N.T. settlers effect on Larrakiahs, Wulwulam, Wogaits; p.140-141; Spearings, Jasper Gorge; p.153-155; Wandi area, camp cooking, gold collecting by Aboriginal girl, mimicry; p.164-168; Katie, Anula tribe Banka Banka, women's dressing, clothing, wild natives, axe trading near Borroloola, reference to B. Spencer; p.171; Glydes Inlet to Waterhouse, contact with Munjongs; p.180-183; White man killed Guion Point, police hunt; p.185-186; Native well near Newcastle Waters, camp attack Armstrong Creek; p.188-189; 8 Warramunga words; p.194-195; Attempted attack near Durack Range camp; p.211; Cutter Avis shipwrecked off Bathurst Island, crew taken to Mission; p.214; Reaction to films.
A collection of 20 studies of proverbs first published in 1981 by Garland. Among the general topics are structure, oral transmission, and practical reasoning. Proverbs examined in detail include African, Yiddish, Shakespeare's, Chinese, Irish, and those used in advertising. Includes an addenda to the bibliography. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
This state-by-state collection of folksongs describes the history, society, culture, and events characteristic of all fifty states. Unlike all other state folksong collections, this one does not focus on songs collected in the particular states, but rather on songs concerning the life and times of the people of that state. The topics range from the major historical events, such as the Boston Tea Party, the attack on Fort Sumter, and the California Gold Rush, to regionally important events such as disasters and murders, labor problems, occupational songs, ethnic conflicts. Some of the songs will be widely recognized, such as Casey Jones, Marching Through Georgia, or Sweet Betsy from Pike. Others, less familiar, have not been reprinted since their original publication, but deserve to be studied because of what they tell about the people of these United States, their loves, labors, and losses, and their responses to events. The collection is organized by regions, starting with New England and ending with the states bordering the Pacific Ocean, and by states within each region. For each state there are from four to fifteen songs presented, with an average of 10 songs per state. For each song, a full text is reprented, followed by discussion of the song in its historical context. References to available recordings and other versions are given. Folksongs, such as those discussed here, are an important tool for historians and cultural historians because they sample experiences of the past at a different level from that of contemporary newspaper accounts and academic histories. These songs, in a sense, are history writ small. Includes: Away Down East, The Old Granite State, Connecticut, The Virginian Maid's Lament, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, I'm Going Back to North Carolina, Shut up in Cold Creek Mine, Ain't God Good to Iowa?, Dakota Land, Dear Prairie Home, Cheyenne Boys, I'm off for California, and others.
Such sayings as "Hard times make a monkey eat red pepper when he don't care for black", "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice", and "Nothing ruins a duck but its bill" convey not only axiomatic impact but also profound contextual meanings. This study of African-American proverbs is the first to probe deeply into these meanings and contexts. Sw. Anand Prahlad's interest in proverbs dates back to his own childhood in rural Virginia when he listened to his great-grandmother's stories. Very early he began collecting "sayings". In researching this book, he spent five years listening for proverbs spoken in bars, clubs, churches, and retirement homes; on street corners, basketball courts, and public buses; at PTA meetings and bingo games. To discover the full context of a proverb, Prahlad considers four levels of meanings - grammatical, cultural, situational, and symbolic. All these operate simultaneously when a proverb is spoken. Part of the artistry in using proverbs comes from the complex interplay of the dimensions of their meanings. From WPA interviews with former slaves, from the lyrics of blues songs, from extensive field research, and from expressions of protest and cultural affirmation, the author reveals the myriad ways African-American proverbs thrive today.