Destiny Obscure
Destiny Obscure

Author: Proffessor John Burnett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1136151400

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In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of nineteenth-century working-class life. Besides affording rare insights into the developing child's world of dreams, hopes and fears, they reflect a crucial period in the evolution of a family tradition; a time when, to counteract the brutalizing pressures of urbanization and industrialization, ordinary people turned to each other for support. Children have seldom had a voice in history: these writers and their experiences take their place as part of the essential fabric of our past.

Nellie Kniffen Took an Axe
Nellie Kniffen Took an Axe

Author: Craig Calcaterra

Publisher:

Published: 2017-07-22

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 9781521935071

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Some people who take in interest in genealogy discover that they are Irish when they thought they were Scottish. Others find a long-lost cousin. When Craig Calcaterra began looking at his family history he found out that his great-great grandmother murdered his great-great grandfather with an axe on a snowy winter's night in Detroit, Michigan in 1910. Nellie Kniffen's violent rampage and her husband Frank's grisly demise was front page news in Detroit for several weeks, but she and her crime were soon forgotten, both by the public and by her family. Those who remembered it tried hard to forget it and those who came after knew nothing about it at all.Through research of public records, personal interviews and a review of the sensationalistic newspaper stories written before Frank Kniffen's body grew cold, Calcaterra unearths a chapter which had been torn out of his family's history. And begins to better understand the ghosts and demons which have haunted his family for over a century.