ReInhabiting the Village
ReInhabiting the Village

Author: Jamaica Stevens

Publisher: Robert Reed Publishers

Published: 2016-09-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781944297015

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ReInhabiting the Village: CoCreating our Future is a 352-page graphically rich, full-color, soft-cover book showcasing the work of 12 Visionary Artists and over 60 Contributing Authors featuring Voices from the Village sharing their experience, best practices, strategies, and resources to empower communities through practical wisdom and inspiring perspectives. These contributors of diverse backgrounds include Artists, Economists, Permaculture Experts, Facilitators, Educators, Visionaries, Natural Builders, Event Producers, Healers, Indigenous Elders and Thought Leaders, Ecologists, Technology Developers, and Community Organizers. Explore ReInhabiting the Village through the lens of 12 themes, each with an associated color and sigil. Chapter topics include Heart of Community, Health and Healing, Art and Culture, Learning and Education, Regional Resilience, Inhabiting the UrbanVillage, Community Land Projects, Holistic Event Production, Living Economy, Media & Storytelling, Appropriate Technology, and Whole Systems Design. Each chapter contains introductions from author Jamaica Stevens, a breadth of articles from contributors, author biographies, visionary art, community photography, informational graphics, inspirational quotes and project features. In closing, the book offers References, Credits, Contributors and a Glossary.

The Village Shop for Lonely Hearts
The Village Shop for Lonely Hearts

Author: Alison Sherlock

Publisher: Boldwood Books Ltd

Published: 2020-07-09

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 183889974X

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A feel-good story of new beginnings set in a gorgeous country village. 'Glorious escapism. Uplifting, heartwarming and joyful, Alison Sherlock writes with a warmth and lightness of touch' - Bestselling author, Kerry Fisher 'A lovely story of finding yourself and discovering what home means. I couldn’t stop turning the pages. Loved it.' - Bestselling author, Jessica Redland After losing her job in New York, Amber Green isn’t looking forward to visiting her godmother in the sleepy village of Cranbridge. With its empty lanes and rundown shops, it’s hardly a place to mend her lonely heart. But when Amber discovers that Cranbridge Stores, owned by her godmother Cathy and son Josh, is under threat of financial ruin, she realises that her skills as a window dresser might just be able to help save the struggling shop. When disaster strikes, Amber and Josh must unite to save both the shop and the village from flooding. Can Cranbridge Stores become the heart of the village once more? And as the village begins to come back to life, perhaps Amber will discover a reason to stay... Perfect for fans of Katie Fforde and Milly Johnson What readers are saying about The Village Shop for Lonely Hearts: ’The story is lovely. All characters were facing challenges and trying to cope with change. They were good, honorable, relatable, and I was immediately invested in their happiness.' ’A great feel good read, great characters, good storyline and set in a fabulous location. Loved it.’ ’I love Alison Sherlock's writing style, her way with words and just lovely stories. A wonderful story to read curled up by a fire!’ ’This book was such a charming read.’ ’This is a solid 5 out of 5 starts for me and a book I will happily reread in the future to revisit these characters. I could not stop smiling when I finished this book.’ ’I loved everything about it’ 'This was such a lovely read to snuggle up with over the weekend. The characters and setting were adorable and I really didn't want the story to end.'

Works of Heart
Works of Heart

Author: Lynne Elizabeth

Publisher: New Village Press

Published: 2006-08-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1613320868

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This full-color celebration of communities engaged in creative cultural expression profiles nine exemplary grassroots arts projects depicting an intersection of creativity with love of place. Stories range from children building an African-inspired mud facade on their Oregon middle school to an annual blessing-procession and festival in North Philadelphia that brings to life dozens of the most depressed blocks in urban America. Other regions represented include Minneapolis, Boston, Berkeley, rural Maine, San Francisco, the New York Bronx, and Vancouver, Canada. Community-based arts resources are sited throughout. Works of Heart offers a compendium of multicultural human-interest stories that will inspire and inform both community development professionals and citizen activists. Among those profiled are Lily Yeh and the Village of Arts and Humanities, Clara Wainwright and the Faith Quilts Project, Dolly Hopkins and Public Dreams, and the Beehive Collective.

It Takes a Village
It Takes a Village

Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1471108643

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Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, chronicled her quest both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become able, caring resilient adults. IT TAKES A VILLAGE is a textbook for caring, filled with truths that are worth a read, and a reread. In her substantial new introduction, Senator Clinton reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade, from the internet to education, and on how her own understanding of children has deepened as she has watched Chelsea grow up and take on challenges new to her generation, from a first job to living through a terrorist attack. She discusses how the work she is doing in the Senate is helping children and looks at where America has been successful, improvements in the foster care system and support for adoption, and where there is still work to be done, providing pre-school programmes and universal health care to all our children. This new edition elucidates how the choices we make about how we raise our children, and how we support families, will determine how all nations will face the challenges of this century.

The Village Idiot
The Village Idiot

Author: Steve Stern

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2022-09-13

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1612199828

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 "A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the “sweet celestial confusion” of Soutine’s painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious." -- The New York Times Book Review A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim Soutine Steve Stern’s astonishing new novel The Village Idiot begins on a glorious spring day in Paris 1917. Amid the carnage of World War I, some of the foremost artists of the age have chosen to stage a boat race. At the head of the regatta is Amedeo Modigliani, seated regally in a bathtub pulled by a flock of canvasback ducks. But unbeknownst to the competition, he has a secret advantage: his young friend, the immigrant painter Chaim Soutine, is hauling the tub from underwater. Soutine, an unwashed, misfit artist (who incidentally can’t swim) has been persuaded by the Italian to don a ponderous diving suit and trudge along the floor of the river Seine. Disoriented and confused by the artificial air in his helmet Chaim stumbles through the events of his past and future life. It’s quite an extraordinary life. From his impoverished beginnings in an East European shtetl to his equally destitute days in Paris during the Années Folles, the Crazy Years, from the Cinderella patronage of the American collector Albert Barnes, who raises him from poverty to international attention, to his perilous flight from the Nazi occupation of France, Chaim Soutine remains driven by his unrelenting passion to paint. To be sure, there are notable distractions, such as his unlikely friendship with Modigliani, who drags him from brothels to midnight felonies to a duel at dawn; there are the romances with remarkable women who compete with and sometimes salvage his obsession. But there is also, always on the horizon, the coming storm that threatens to sweep away Chaim and a generation of gifted Jewish refugees from a tradition that would outlaw their longing to make art. Wildly inventive, as funny as it is heart-breaking, The Village Idiot is a luminous fever-dream of a novel, steeped in the heady atmosphere of a Paris that was the cultural capital of the universe, a place where anything seemed possible.

There is Something about Rough and Ready
There is Something about Rough and Ready

Author: Steve Earl Troutman

Publisher: Sunbury Press, Incorporated

Published: 2012-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781620061206

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The little village of Rough and Ready in Upper Mahantongo Township, Schuylkill County, PA is set in the center of the Mahantongo Valley, famous for its Pennsylvania Dutch culture -- especially the painted furniture. This book focuses on the social history of the village, anchored by information from the 1850 census and Salem Reformed Church cemetery records. This was the famous Isaac F Stiehly's church and most of the families mentioned were in his congregation. The book contains hundreds of photos, most over 100 years old, of life in the Valley. Table of Contents: The Origins of Rough and Ready The 1850 Census in Upper Mahantongo Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania The Old Man Knorr and Stiely Connections The Monroe and Harvey Stiely Mill Maurers of the Mahantongo Valley Manasses Maurer Family Caroline Gonser, Indian Maiden of Creek Town, Rough and Ready, Upper Mahantongo Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Steve Rebuck Visits the Mahantongo Valley 24th August, 2010 Daniel A. Maurer Homestead and Stine's Hotel at Rough & Ready, PA The Maurer Blacksmiths of Hepler The Daniel Klinger Ramberger Family Ancestors of the Rambergers Jacob Ramberger (1802-1854) md. Catherine Klinger (1802-1871) A Visit to the Jacob and Clara Ramberger Farm, June 18, 2011 Jacob and Clara Ramberger Farm Painting by Leroy Drumheller Ramberger Anecdotes Rough and Ready Band - 1906 Zerfings School, 1907 Ramberger Photo Gallery Ramberger Conclusion Henry Ramberger of Rough and Ready The Gold Mine in the Leck Bush near Rough and Ready, PA The Herb Family of Rough and Ready Something About Rough and Ready and the Emergency Militia Henry B. Clark - Farmer and Defender of Freedom Indians in Rough and Ready along Beisel's Run Beisel Homestead near Rough and Ready Erdman Family History Indian Incursions in the Mahantongo Valley On the Baums, Herbs and Schlegels Frederick Stein Schwalm: Civil War Veteran, Justice of the Peace, Molly Maguire Jury Member Something about the Heplers Something about the Bensingers Something about the Wolfgangs George and Elizabeth Wolfgang The Story of My Life by Bessie May Schadel Bowman Klingers in the 1850 Census Snyders in the 1850 Census Ray Davis Recalls Rough and Ready of the Past Simmy Court House Records Simmy and Associated Colored Family Vital Records Salem Church Photo Knorr Family Heritage John H. Knorr Land A Winter Market Day Interview with Willard and Joyce Kahler of Old State Road, Rough and Ready, Pa. Klinger Farms, Rough and Ready, Pa. Picture Gallery PA German Fraktur, including a hand drawn, Riderless Horse and a handwritten German Script Prayer Appendix 1: Researching Economic Life in the Mahantango Valley: A 19th Century Pennsylvania German Community Appendix 2: SALEM CHURCH CEMETERY UPPER MAHANTANGO TWP., SCHUYLKILL CO. L.R.53047. JULY 25, 1980 Appendix 3: 1850 Census UPPER MAHANTANGO TWP., SCHUYLKILL CO. Heads of Households Appendix 4: 1850 Census UPPER MAHANTANGO TWP., SCHUYLKILL CO. Most Common Surnames

The Village
The Village

Author: Caroline Mitchell

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781542022224

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From the bestselling author of the DI Amy Winter series comes a thriller about a shocking disappearance--and the village that has conspired to keep the truth buried. Ten years ago, the Harper family disappeared. Their deserted cottage was left with the water running, the television playing cartoons, the oven ready for baking. The doors were locked from the inside. Overnight, the sleepy village of Nighbrook became notorious as the scene of the unsolved mystery of the decade, an epicentre for ghoulish media speculation. For crime journalist Naomi, solving the case has turned into an obsession. So now, with Ivy Cottage finally listed for sale, it's her chance to mount an investigation like no other. And her husband and stepdaughter don't really need to know what happened in their new home... do they? But Nighbrook isn't quite the village she expected. No one wants to talk to her. No one will answer her questions. And as she becomes increasingly uneasy, it's clear that the villagers are hiding something--that there is something very dark at the heart of this rural idyll. And the deeper she digs, the more it seems her investigation could be more dangerous than she ever imagined... In raking up the secrets of the past, has she made her own family the next target?