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Author : Chris Markham
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1504038134
Since his teens, Chris Markham’s hitchhiking thumb has carried him into adventures across America. His first book, Mississippi Odyssey, is a journal of his experiences hitchhiking boat rides down the Mississippi River.
Author : Melvin M. Payne
Publisher :
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Publishers and publishing
ISBN :
Author : James Longo
Publisher : Factual Planet
Page : pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781939437464
Author : Howard Ball
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing than the 1964 brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. As we approach the 40th anniversary of the murders in June 2004, "Murder in Mississippi" provides a timely and telling reminder of the vigilance democracy requires if its ideals are to be fully realized.
Author : William Kent Krueger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476749310
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! “If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, you’ll love This Tender Land...This story is as big-hearted as they come.” —Parade The unforgettable story of four orphans who travel the Mississippi River on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression. In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota’s Gilead River, Odie O’Banion is an orphan confined to the Lincoln Indian Training School, a pitiless place where his lively nature earns him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee after committing a terrible crime, he and his brother, Albert, their best friend, Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. Over the course of one summer, these four orphans journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.
Author : Bill Wyman
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A history of the Blues genre and its celebrated musicians discusses how African-Americans expressed poverty, injustice, faith, and love in their music as they journeyed from southern plantations to northern cities.
Author : Ellis Anderson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1604735031
Winner of the 2010 Eudora Welty Book Prize and the Mississippi Library Association’s Nonfiction Author’s Award for 2011 Under Surge, Under Siege shows how Hurricane Katrina tore into Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, raking away lives, buildings, and livelihoods in a place known for its picturesque, coastal views; its laid-back, artsy downtown; and its deep-dyed southern cordiality. The tragedy also revealed the inner workings of a community with an indomitable heart and profound neighborly bonds. Those connections often brought out the best in people under the worst of circumstances. In Under Surge, Under Siege, Ellis Anderson, who rode out the storm in her Bay St. Louis home and sheltered many neighbors afterwards, offers stories of generosity, heroism, and laughter in the midst of terror and desperate uncertainty. Divided into two parts, this book invites readers into the intimate enclave before, during, and after the storm. “Under Surge” focuses on connections between residents, and then it demonstrates how those bonds sustained them through the worst hurricane in US history. “Under Siege” documents the first three years of the grinding aftermath, detailing the unforeseen burdens of stress and depression, insurance scandals, and opportunists that threatened to complete the annihilation of the plucky town. A blend of memoir, personal diary, and firsthand reportage, Under Surge, Under Siege creates a compelling American testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Author : Theresa Cameron
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2008
Category : African American women
ISBN : 9781604736212
Abandoned by her teenage mother in 1954 to a overwhelmingly white charity organization so begins Theresa's life as a 'ward of the state' of New York. She shares the heartbreaking struggle to survive in a foster care system where children's welfare often seemed the lowest priority.
Author : Floyd M. Clay
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Mississippi River
ISBN :
Author : James M Longo
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781939437457
The Mississippi River has been one of America's great passages for centuries. A primary artery of exploration and commerce, its history is rich in the human stories that have transpired along its banks through generations of natives and pioneers, farmers and explorers, entrepreneurs and soldiers. So it's no surprise that many of its tales are of the spirits of those who made that history and haunt it to this day. Ghost stories are common on the Mississippi, and James M. Longo spent four years seeking them out from the people who live along its banks. Haunted Odyssey collects the tales he was told and the ones he unearthed in his travels up and down the river: The phantom light on a deadly Cape Girardeau road Kaskaskia's Indian curse A home in a quiet St. Louis suburb where a grandfather regularly stops by to check in and watch TV-years after he passed away The infamous Lemp Mansion in St. Louis and the sordid history of madness and death that haunts it still today An Indian guide's spirit who helps children lost in the woods in St. Charles Edwardsville's Three Mile House, where alarm clocks are unnecessary thanks to a ghostly child Footsteps that stalk through a Hannibal home with no one in sight Born and raised in St. Louis, James M. Longo's lifelong interest in ghost stories culminated in his Mississippi Valley odyssey, gathering the best stories local residents sincerely believe to be true. Stories that will haunt you."