Leaves turn red, orange, and yellow. Fall is here! Celebrate the season with this easy-to-read book. Lovely photos and a simple design beautifully support early readers.
An enjoyment of the poet's art, as seen in the words of T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens. "As a Protestant theologian," writes McGill in his preface, "I have always been puzzled that within the Christian community, poetry is often used for its insight into our modern miseries, but that it is rarely enjoyed as poetry. This book seeks to redress the balance." McGill focuses on three American poets--Eliot, Frost and Stevens--all of whom belong to the same poetic generation and thus provide a microcosm of poetry from this era. Influenced by Owen Barfield, John Crowe Ransom, and Cleanth Brooks, he identifies poetry with the fleshly aspect of experience, yet never as distinct from a spiritual aspect. "In the kingdom of God, people are created with flesh, reconciled through flesh, and glorified as flesh. To hide from the flesh for the sake of the spirit is to miss the Christian life. It is this danger which gives special meaning to the enjoyment of poetry." This experience of poetry, according to McGill, "is always a healthy antidote to spiritual pride."
A major happening in Northeast Georgia in the early 1900s completely changed the future of the mountains. Bennie, a teenage mother, bravely decides to give up her familiar mountain home and move to the strange new town of Helen. She learns how the giant sawmill is operated and faces religious bigotry concerning her woods child. Bennie is beginning to like what Helen offers when her cousin is brutally murdered. She is adjusting to this last major change in her life when she learns that her childhood friend is in jail. Bennies daughter, Katherine, moves to Atlanta during the Great Depression. She searches for a way she can restore the mountains and lessen her mothers sadness, but a single woman cant do anything. Franklin Delano Roosevelt offers hope for the mountains, but its a wild idea. Celebrate shares the tale of single mothers search to find happiness for her special daughter within the confines of a sawmill town in Georgia at the beginning of the twentieth century. Alma Bowens intimate knowledge of the history of Georgias mountains and the ways of its people are reflected in Celebrate! Her book expertly weaves the rich history of the town of Helen throughout her storyline, relating the peoples strengths and frailties. Its a well-written must-read for anybody interested in a good story based on real history. Johnny Vardeman, long-time writer of Northeast Georgia history and retired executive editor of The Times of Gainesville.
Children will enjoy learning about the weather, holidays, and other notable seasonal events. Packed with early science lessons, fun facts, and other exercises, this hands-on workbook will help students build knowledge and curiosity about the world.
A novel on a Spanish landowner and his bastard half brother to whom he is at once attracted and repelled. The relationship is played out against the background of the approaching 1930s Spanish Civil War, the causes of which the novel examines.