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A Yellow Watermelon
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Ted M. Dunagan
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In rural south Alabama in 1948, whites pick on one side of the cotton field and blacks on the other. Where the fields come together, twelve-year-old Ted Dillon meets Poudlum, a black boy his own age, who teaches him how to endure the hard work while they bond and go on to integrate the field. Through Poudlum and Jake, an escaped black convict, Ted learns of evil forces gathering to deprive Poudlum’s family of their property and livelihood. The white and black boy encounter danger and suspense...
Alabama Folk Pottery
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Joey Brackner
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Based on 20 years’ research and experience with potters and their wares, folklorist Joey Brackner presents a definitive, comprehensive survey of folk potters and the folk pottery tradition in Alabama from the early historic period to the present. Illustrated with hundreds of color and black-and-white photographs, the book examines much admired and sought-after ceramics (such as crocks, face jugs, bowls, churns, and garden pottery) appreciated the world over for their originality, beauty, and...
Belle, the Last Mule at Gee's Bend
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The story of Belle, a simple mule in Gee's Bend, Alabama, and the role she played in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's. Based on real events, this is the story of how African Americans in an impoverished community, inspired by a visit from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., defied local authorities and registered to vote, many traveling by mule-drawn wagon. Written by Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Bettye Stroud. Illustrated by John Holyfield.
Carolina Planters
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Edward Pattillo
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In Carolina Planters on the Alabama Frontier: The Spencer Robeson-McKenzie Family Papers, author Edward Pattillo collects the documents of the fourth-generation New Englander Elihu Spencer and his family and Southern descendants to form a history of the American nation from the point of view of planters and those they held in slavery. The book follows those families through multiple generations. The volume gives detailed account of a privileged world that was afflicted by constant loss and...
Charlie Lucas - The Tin Man
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Chip Cooper & Ben Windham
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With more than 200 vivid color photographs--of the artist at work, his studio environments, and his finished creations--Tin Man presents Lucas through his own words and stories--his troubled and impoverished childhood, his self-awakening to the depths of his own artistic vision, his perseverance through years of derision and misapprehension, and the salvation that has come through international acclaim and recognition, love of family, and his role as a teacher of children. ...
Ernest's Gift
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Kathryn Tucker Windham
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On the occasion of the centennial of the public library in historic Selma, Alabama, beloved storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham relates the true story of Ernest Dawson. When he was a boy in the 1930s, segregation laws had barred Dawson from using the Selma library. But his love of books and his eagerness to learn was strong, and he eventually became a teacher. Years later he bequeathed to the Selma library money for a new children’s wing so that other eager young readers of all races would...
Eugene Allen Smith's Alabama
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Aileen Kilgore Henderson
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In 1871, shortly after 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 verbal abuse as he searched for industrial raw materials that could bring about better lives for destitute Alabamians. What he accomplished became the catalyst that transformed Alabama from...
Ferns of Alabama
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Ferns of Alabama is a beautiful, full-color guidebook to the great variety of ferns and fern allies that populate Alabama woods, stream banks, prairies, glades, roadsides, and trails. Along with the ecologically similar but genetically unrelated horsetails, clubmosses, and quillworts, ferns are nonflowering vascular plants of ancient lineages that date back to the Devonian era. Although they are now known to be unrelated, all of these groups of plants were once thought to be part of a single...
Haunted Alabama Black Belt
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The History Press
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Haunted Alabama Black Belt tells the stories of a place steeped in history- a place where a people were enslaved, a nation was broken, and a new dream of freedom was born. From the Cato-Thorn House in Barbour County to the Snow Hill Institute in Wilcox County, Alabama's Black Belt has a great number of restless spirits that still haunt it.
Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories
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Kathryn Tucker Windham
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Jeffrey, the ghost that has haunted Kathryn Tucker Windham’s house for 40 years is back. This time, he helped Mrs. Windham choose 13 of the best stories from her acclaimed series of Southern ghost stories. This new volume, with an introduction by the author, is filled with cameos by historical places, collecting the best of the stories from Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia. Learn why a phantom witch relentlessly torments the Bell family and gasp as a farmer vanishes into thin air....
Kismet
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K.T. Archer
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For Lizzy Wallace, everything changed following the worst year of her life. Lizzy had two close friends Kay and Spencer and they were determined to remind Lizzy who she was. They decided to take matters into their own hands. New people, new places are just the key to her return to joy; together they will find help for their lost friends. They will help Lizzy grow beyond her well-earned distrust in people. That’s just one way they will change her entire life. Only one thing is for sure, when...