The Family Legacy of Henry Clay
The Family Legacy of Henry Clay

Author: Lindsey Apple

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2011-09-16

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0813134110

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Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today he is still regarded as one of the most important political figures in American history. As Speaker of the House of Representatives and secretary of state, Clay left an indelible mark on American politics at a time when the country’s solidarity was threatened by inner turmoil, and scholars have thoroughly chronicled his political achievements. However, little attention has been paid to his extensive family legacy. In The Family Legacy of Henry Clay: In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch, Lindsey Apple explores the personal history of this famed American and examines the impact of his legacy on future generations of Clays. Apple’s study delves into the family’s struggles with physical and emotional problems such as depression and alcoholism. The book also analyzes the role of financial stress as the family fought to reestablish its fortune in the years after the Civil War. Apple’s extensively researched volume illuminates a little-discussed aspect of Clay’s life and heritage, and highlights the achievements and contributions of one of Kentucky’s most distinguished families.

Kentucky Clay
Kentucky Clay

Author: Katherine R. Bateman

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1556527950

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Eleven generations of a founding American family are examined in this sweeping history that traces the Clays of Kentucky, a true So

Children of Clay
Children of Clay

Author: Rina Swentzell

Publisher: First Avenue Editions

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 082259627X

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Members of a Tewa Indian family living in Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico follow the ages-old traditions of their people as they create various objects of clay.

The Clay Family Settlement on the Bluestone River
The Clay Family Settlement on the Bluestone River

Author: William Sanders

Publisher: McClain Printing Company

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 9780962527388

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Mitchell Clay married Phoebe Belcher They had fourteen children. They settled in Clover Bottoms on the Bluestone River in West Virginia in 1775.

Family and Friends in Polymer Clay
Family and Friends in Polymer Clay

Author: Maureen Carlson

Publisher: North Light Books

Published: 2000-04-01

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780891349273

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You can make character dolls and whimsical figures from polymer clay!. Make friends with polymer clay - and family too! In this delightful, light-hearted book, Maureen Carlson will teach you how to sculpt unique clay figures of your favorite people. You'll find everything you need to have fun and success - including a complete description of tools and supplies; general techniques for creating faces and bodies; and tricks for recreating the specific moods, expressions and features that capture the essence of a particular person. Before you know it, you'll be creating clay caricatures that are "almost real," full of personality, and guaranteed to make you smile!

Clay's Quilt
Clay's Quilt

Author: Silas House

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2001-04-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1616202971

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On a bone-chilling New Year's Day, when all the mountain roads are slick with ice, Clay's mother, Anneth, insists on leaving her husband. She packs her things, and with three-year-old Clay in tow, they inch their way toward her hometown along the treacherous mountain roads. That journey ends in the death of Clay's mother. It's a day that comes to haunt her only son, who's left without a family and a history. This is the story of how Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love with his town but unsure of his place within it, finds a family to call his own. And it's the story of the people who become part of the life he shapes: Aunt Easter, always filled with a sense of foreboding and bound to her faith above all; Uncle Paul, quietly producing quilt after quilt; Dreama, beautiful and flighty; Evangeline, the untameable daughter of a famous gospel singer; and Alma, the fiddler whose song wends its way into Clay's heart. Together, they all help Clay to fashion a quilt of a life from what treasured pieces are around him. Authentic and moving, Clay's Quilt is both the story of a young man's journey and of Appalachian people struggling to hold on to their heritage.