A Generation of Seekers
A Generation of Seekers

Author: Wade Clark Roof

Publisher: Harper San Francisco

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13:

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Now in paperback: the landmark portrait of the baby boomers' search for meaning and values in an uncertain world--as profiled in Time and USA Weekend cover stories. "(Roof) displays an engaging sense of humor, a profound compassion for the spiritual yearnings of his subjects, and an ecumenical spirit".--Los Angeles Times.

Wofford College
Wofford College

Author: Phillip Stone

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738585956

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Founded with a bequest of $100,000 from the Reverend Benjamin Wofford, Wofford College opened in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in August 1854. More than 150 years later, the college remains on its original campus, a national arboretum. Five of its earliest six buildings are in daily use. Throughout its history, Wofford has maintained its connection with South Carolina Methodism and has benefited from the support of its alumni. Many of its 15,500 living alumni maintain strong ties to the college and to each other. The awarding of a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1941 recognized the college's dedication to the liberal arts and its commitment to academic excellence. Though the student body has grown from around 500 before World War II to nearly 1,500 in 2010, Wofford retains its commitment to developing relationships between students and professors.

Mary Black's Family Quilts
Mary Black's Family Quilts

Author: Laurel Horton

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1570036101

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Mary Black's Family Quilts includes a foreword by Michael Owen Jones, Professor of Culture and Performance, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Craftsman of the Cumberlands: Tradition and Creativity.

Still Horse Crazy After All These Years
Still Horse Crazy After All These Years

Author: James Wofford

Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books

Published: 2021-06-16

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1646011104

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A rare insider’s look at the life of a professional sportsman as he tries to reconcile the passion that drives him with livelihood, family, and aging. Three-time Olympian Jim Wofford grew up with horses, beginning with his childhood on a Kansas farm in the forties. The son of an Olympic show jumper, Wofford and his siblings all found themselves pursuing a “riding life”—one of reward and growth, of challenge and disappointment, but mostly of learning to understand and work with a complex animal as an athletic partner and friend. Over the years Wofford developed as an international competitor, successful coach, and sought-after commentator. Known for his wit, irreverence, and whip-smart observations on the sport and its participants, as well as the state of the “outside” world, his magazine columns were soon as legendary as his performances in the saddle. Now Wofford brings his immense talent for telling tales—all of them (mostly) true—to the page in a lively and absorbing look back through time spent in and out of the saddle. With lessons in horsemanship both simple and profound interwoven with fascinating stories from his many diverse adventures around the world, readers enjoy a peek inside the wild ride that can be the life of an international equestrian while pondering weighty questions, such as how to make decisions for the good of the horse and how to find a soulful connection with him. Although these questions may never be fully answered, readers discover something about themselves as they see how philosophical investigation contributed to Wofford’s own evolution over time. An honest, funny, poignant read certain to entertain and educate every horse person.

In Search of the Blues
In Search of the Blues

Author: Bill Minutaglio

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0292778562

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The rich, complex lives of African Americans in Texas were often neglected by the mainstream media, which historically seldom ventured into Houston's Fourth Ward, San Antonio's East Side, South Dallas, or the black neighborhoods in smaller cities. When Bill Minutaglio began writing for Texas newspapers in the 1970s, few large publications had more than a token number of African American journalists, and they barely acknowledged the things of lasting importance to the African American community. Though hardly the most likely reporter—as a white, Italian American transplant from New York City—for the black Texas beat, Minutaglio was drawn to the African American heritage, seeking its soul in churches, on front porches, at juke joints, and anywhere else that people would allow him into their lives. His nationally award-winning writing offered many Americans their first deeper understanding of Texas's singular, complicated African American history. This eclectic collection gathers the best of Minutaglio's writing about the soul of black Texas. He profiles individuals both unknown and famous, including blues legends Lightnin' Hopkins, Amos Milburn, Robert Shaw, and Dr. Hepcat. He looks at neglected, even intentionally hidden, communities. And he wades into the musical undercurrent that touches on African Americans' joys, longings, and frustrations, and the passing of generations. Minutaglio's stories offer an understanding of the sweeping evolution of music, race, and justice in Texas. Moved forward by the musical heartbeat of the blues and defined by the long shadow of racism, the stories measure how far Texas has come . . . or still has to go.

Famous Dogs of the Civil War
Famous Dogs of the Civil War

Author: Ben Dunlap

Publisher: Divers Collection

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9781736262443

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Everything started to change at home during the war in Vietnam, remembered by Caitlin Rosen as a heady, tumultuous, ruinous time for her, her husband and his best friend, a local golden boy who'd come back to his native south only to find he was turning to brass after a chance encounter with a woman of whom he knew nothing more than that she was in deep trouble. What followed on that haunts Caitlin's mind, though it's only in distant retrospect that she's able to recognize that what happened to the four of them was what happened to the whole country as well in coming to terms with its past. Ben Dunlap, introduced for his 2007 TED Talk as "a master storyteller," has been a writer, teacher, dancer, and television producer as well as a Rhodes Scholar. This is his first novel, Number 4 in The Divers Collection. The cover art is based on a painting by Jack Freeman.

How Zach Came to College
How Zach Came to College

Author: J G (John George) 185 Clinkscales

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017856927

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