Once Upon a Time in South Chicago

Once Upon a Time in South Chicago

Author: Robert Stanley

Publisher:

Published: 2014-01-11

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780692272237

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The life and times of growing up in the blue collar steel mill neighborhood on the south side of Chicago in the turbulent 60s and going off to war in Viet Nam. Also interviewing the cast of characters that that also lived through those times.


Nothin' But Blue Skies

Nothin' But Blue Skies

Author: Edward McClelland

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-05-21

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1608195295

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Looks at the boom and bust of America's upper Midwest and Great Lakes region, tracing its role as a leader in manufacturing, the forces that shaped it, and the innovations and industrial fallouts that brought about its downfall.


Once Upon a Time There Was a Three-Year-Old Grandpa

Once Upon a Time There Was a Three-Year-Old Grandpa

Author: David Janzen

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-07-18

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13:

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This eccentric title recalls a collection of tales first told to grandchildren at bedtime. Each chapter begins with a fun-to-read farmer-boy story from the 1940s, an era before industrial farming when horses, cows, and chickens were still members of the family. These anecdotes each launch a theme that splashes down with further development in later decades of life. Diverse topics include imaginative play, construction crew humor, animal intelligence, contemplative prayer and journal writing, rural and urban farming, communal wisdom, and affordable housing, along with a few serious pranks and the prophetic mischief that follows. This memoir is also a confession in the pattern of Augustine, reflecting on God's in-breaking initiatives and the writer's emerging sense of calling in lifelong conversation with Jesus. Its stories offer a series of curiosity-driven on-ramps into eight decades of transformative experiences for curious souls to ponder an open-eyed faith and a communal way of life for the long haul.


Authentic Chicago

Authentic Chicago

Author: John R. Schmidt

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2023-10-16

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1439679495

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Discover the history most Chicagoans don't know---the real Chicago Way. The Windy City is full of forgotten landmarks and unusual stories that rarely get the benefit of a guided tour. Meet the African-American congressman who paved the way for Harold Washington and Barack Obama, the South Side Jewish girl who became the president of a South American country, and the visiting Romanian queen who charmed the city. Learn when Chicagoans were paid to smile, how furniture sprouts on Windy City streets after a blizzard and why Smell-O-Vision seemed like a good idea. From an in-city ski resort to the nation's greatest train robbery, author John R. Schmidt offers a glimpse of the overlooked scenery of Chicago's past.


American Guides

American Guides

Author: Wendy Griswold

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 022635797X

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In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate—and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a response to devastating unemployment, Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers’ Project. The Project’s mission was simple: jobs. But, as Wendy Griswold shows in the lively and persuasive American Guides, the Project had a profound—and unintended—cultural impact that went far beyond the writers’ paychecks. Griswold’s subject here is the Project’s American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. Griswold finds that the series unintentionally diversified American literary culture’s cast of characters—promoting women, minority, and rural writers—while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes. Griswold’s story alters our customary ideas about cultural change as a gradual process, revealing how diversity is often the result of politically strategic decisions and bureaucratic logic, as well as of the conflicts between snobbish metropolitan intellectuals and stubborn locals. American Guides reveals the significance of cultural federalism and the indelible impact that the Federal Writers’ Project continues to have on the American literary landscape.