The Porch Down Home
The Porch Down Home

Author: Deborah Ronna Baker

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1616632933

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Deborah Ronna Baker's The Porch Down Home chronicles the life of seventeen-year-old Avie and her sister, Cassie, who live in the Midwest with their beloved grandparents, Bigmomma and Bigdaddy. Avie and Cassie have been taught right from wrong by their young-at-heart grandparents, but that doesn't stop Avie from getting into mischief every once in a while, like the time she 'borrows' a stash of Bigdaddy's healing herb to use for her science project. But Bigdaddy will soon be thankful, for a summer storm destroys seemingly all of the precious herb one night-all but Avie's stash in the meadow. The Porch Down Home offers a cast of characters as different as night and day that will become like part of your own family, from nosy Cora Lee and the stuttering Lester brothers to Big Sally the bully and shy but sweet Chase. From the schoolhouse to the nickel and dime, join these Midwest characters in discovering that life is best lived on The Porch Down Home. The author creates a real world peopled with characters-even animals-that are so lively, colorful, and vivid they become your next-door neighbors. No-closer than that; they're like family! -Mary Frances Stubbs, Director of Development for the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences, and Advisor of Film and Literary Projects, Howard University

Going Down Home with Daddy
Going Down Home with Daddy

Author: Kelly Starling Lyons

Publisher: Holiday House

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1682632490

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Set at one young boy's annual family reunion, this Caldecott Honor-winning picture book is a rich and moving celebration of Black history, culture, and the power of family traditions. "On reunion morning, we rise before the sun. Daddy hums as he packs our car with suitcases and a cooler full of snacks. He says there's nothing like going down home" Down home is Granny's house. Down home is where Lil Alan and his parents and sister will gather with great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Down home is where Lil Alan will hear stories of the ancestors and visit the land that has meant so much to all of them. And down home is where all of the children will find their special way to pay tribute to their family history. All the kids have to decide what they'll share, but what will Lil Alan do? Kelly Starling Lyons' eloquent text explores the power of history and family traditions, and stunning illustrations by Coretta Scott King Honor- and Caldecott Honor-winner Daniel Minter reveal the motion and connections in a large, multi-generational family.

Out on the Porch
Out on the Porch

Author: Clifton Dowell

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780945575931

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Evoking soft summer evenings in the South, a collection of photographs and quotes from such famous writers as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty celebrates the porch as a vital extension of the American character. By the author of Kate Vaiden.

A View from the Porch
A View from the Porch

Author: Avi Friedman

Publisher:

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781550653991

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This is the latest updated book from "Canada's housing guru" about how design affects our daily lives This illuminating collection of 22 essays expounds upon the points where design touches life. The essays discuss the big and small things that make us appreciate, or become disconnected from, our homes and neighborhoods. Drawing on his experiences as an architect, planner, world traveler, and educator, Avi Friedman delves into issues such as the North American obsession with monster homes, the impact of scale on the feeling of comfort in our communities, environmental concerns such as deforestation, innovative recycling methods in building materials, the booming do-it-yourself industry, the decline of craftsmanship, and the role of good design in bringing families together. Written with Friedman's trademark flair,A View from the Porch offers a compelling vision of the influence of design in our everyday lives from one of the world's most innovative thinkers. With new material, this is a completely revised edition ofRoom for Thought, originally published in 2005.

Little Book of Whittling Gift Edition
Little Book of Whittling Gift Edition

Author: Chris Lubkemann

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1607655438

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Whittle away the hours! Now available in a handsome new hardcover gift edition, this friendly guidebook features 18 step-by-step whittling projects for knives, forks, birds, animals, trees, flowers, and more. Also includes chapters on proper whittling tools and materials, what woods are best to carve, and how to start projects by selecting and safely sharpening the best knife for each project.

Ruby Ann's Down Home Trailer Park Guide to Livin' Real Good
Ruby Ann's Down Home Trailer Park Guide to Livin' Real Good

Author: Ruby Ann Boxcar

Publisher: Citadel Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780806525471

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Even those who live in a house without wheels can now share in the very special lifestyle afforded by the unique trailer park milieu. Ruby Ann shares her secrets for livin' life to the fullest along with anecdotes from the vaults of the High Chaparral trailer park where hot sex, warm spam and cold beer are just the beginning. With b/w photos throughout.

Down Home
Down Home

Author: William Mackey

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-01-30

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 1329861191

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In 1969 after 20 years living in New York City, Engineer, Photographer & Educator William Henry Mackey, Jr. returned to the rural Georgia backwoods where he had been raised. During the 20 years since he had left, the South had undergone drastic changes, from the Civil Rights Era to the technological advances in farming techniques, yet at the same time it remained the same simple place where he had grown up. Mackey proceeded to photograph and interview friends, family and other residents of the area in an effort to document their history and recollections of an era that was fast fading under the onslaught of 'progress'. The result is a fascinating look into the legacy of rural Blacks in coastal Georgia and the political, technological and social changes they underwent during the century since the Emancipation Proclamation.

Home
Home

Author: Marilynne Robinson

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Published: 2009-09-22

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781554681228

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Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with torment and pain. A troubled boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. He is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Reverend Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, beguiling, lovable and wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with John Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is arguably Marilynne Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.

A Down Home Christmas
A Down Home Christmas

Author: Liz Talley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-07-02

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1947892568

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A rising star, a down-to-earth teacher, and a Christmas touched by wonder… Country music star Kris Trabeau heads to Charming, Mississippi, to convince his aging aunt to sell her farm and move into a nice retirement community. She’s not having it, and she enlists her neighbor Tory Odom to help her remind Kris why the farm means so much…especially at Christmas. After being dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Tory’s not feeling the holiday spirit. Still, she agrees to co-chair a children’s concert and silent auction to benefit the after-school center where she volunteers. As Kris helps her with the concert and spends time with the kids, the attraction between them becomes harder and harder to ignore. Can he trade spotlights and city lights for the place where the music began? This funny, emotional romance includes a free Hallmark original recipe for Jingle Bell Fruitcake Cookies.