Vernon the Vegetable Man

Vernon the Vegetable Man

Author: Yvelette Stines

Publisher:

Published: 2012-03

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780984999002

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Vernon the Vegetable Man is a children's book that encourages kids to eat healthy, exercise, and set goals. In the book, a young boy named Marvin has a hard time keeping up on the basketball court. When he is devastated that he can't play, his friends encourage him to keep trying. On his way home, Marvin meets Vernon the Vegetable Man. Vernon is the community vegetable man that sells fresh produce while encouraging the citizens to eat healthy and exercise. Throughout the summer, Vernon helps Marvin set goals so he can become healthier and become a better basketball player. By following Vernon's advice and making better choices, Marvin accomplishes his goals, loses weight and becomes the star of the basketball court. Vernon the Vegetable Man is a book with vivid colors and wonderful lessons on goal setting, sportsmanship, and healthy living. Children, parents, and educators will enjoy the lessons in this story. This is a book that will motivate children to eat healthy and enjoy the wonderful health benefits of fruits and vegetables. After reading this book, parents can incorporate fun, healthy activities into thier daily lives.Children will enjoy making smoothies and creating new recipes as they browse the produce section at the grocery store. This book will help children create healthy habits that will last a lifetime. Vernon the Vegetable Man was written to encourage children to make healthy choices, love literacy, and help decrease childhood obesity.


Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon

Author: Andrew Santella

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2004-07

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9780756506827

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A look at George Washington's home at different periods of our history.


The General in the Garden

The General in the Garden

Author: Adam T. Erby

Publisher: Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, Library

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780931917486

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Designing the beautiful: General Washington's landscape improvements, 1784-1787 / Adam T. Erby -- George Washington's gardens: under the watchful eye of the Mount Vernon Ladies / J. Dean Norton -- "Laid out in squares, and boxed with great precission": uncovering George Washington's upper garden / Esther C. White -- Gardens et groves: a landscape guide / Adam T. Erby -- The views: bowling green, upper garden, greenhouse and slave quarter, lower garden, botanical garden, outbuildings, the lost deer park.


A Decent Place to Live

A Decent Place to Live

Author: Jane Roessner

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1555534368

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"A Decent Place to Live is a fabulous piece of work. Well-written, candid and engaging, its honesty is refreshing; nothing is swept under the rug. The voices of the tenants carry the story forward, but the transformation of Columbia Point is set in a political context and the impact of government policies is explored. A valuable resource for urban planners, architects, housing policy makers, and developers." -- Hubert E. Jones, Assistant Chancellor for Urban Affairs, University of Massachusetts, Boston


Ruth Joyce Yanish's Memoirs

Ruth Joyce Yanish's Memoirs

Author: Ruth Joyce Yanish

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2012-06

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1457511886

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Stories of the Joyce Family is a collection of stories about growing up Irish during the early part of the twentieth century. The Joyce family were recent immigrants from Ireland and settled in the Boston area. Ruth Joyce Yanish wrote her memories of those times, which include the great depression and World War II. Ruth Joyce Yanish was born in Wakefield Massachusetts on October 6, 1921. She married Casimir Valentine Yanish on February 26, 1949and moved with Chuck to Yonkers, New York, where she subsequently had fivechildren. She and Chuck raised those five children in Clarks Summit, Pa. The children are Christine, Steven, Michael, Joan and Lisa. Ruth also has seven grandchildren, who live throughout the United States. This book is about Ruth's life growing up in Wakefield Massachusetts


Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Author: Henry L. Hunker

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780814208571

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"Personal and anecdotal, the book serves as an informal documentary of the past fifty years, when Columbus grew to become the largest city in Ohio. Famous for his tours of the city, Hunker includes itineraries for two tours - one in 1956, one in 1999 - which he uses to compare the city then and now.".


Bath Haus

Bath Haus

Author: P. J. Vernon

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2022-05-24

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0593311310

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Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • A scintillating thriller with an emotional punch: “The tension builds to unbearably claustrophobic levels. To say more would rob readers of the 'no, he didn’t' suspense that makes Bath Haus an unexpectedly twisted, heart-pounding cat-versus-mouse thriller" (Los Angeles Times). Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they've made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse. But through the entrance he goes, and it's a line crossed. Inside, he follows a man into a private room, and it's the final line. Whatever happens next, Nathan can never know. But then, everything goes wrong, terribly wrong, and Oliver barely escapes with his life. He races home in full-blown terror as the hand-shaped bruise grows dark on his neck. The truth will destroy Nathan and everything they have together, so Oliver does the thing he used to do so well: he lies. What follows is a classic runaway-train narrative, full of the exquisite escalations, edge-of-your-seat thrills, and oh-my-god twists. P. J. Vernon's Bath Haus is perfect for readers curious for their next must-read novel.


Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon

Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon

Author: Scott E. Casper

Publisher: Hill and Wang

Published: 2009-01-20

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1429931213

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New Stories from an Old American Shrine The home of our first president has come to symbolize the ideals of our nation: freedom for all, national solidarity, and universal democracy. Mount Vernon is a place where the memories of George Washington and the era of America's birth are carefully preserved and re-created for the nearly one million tourists who visit it every year. But behind the familiar stories lies a history that visitors never hear. Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon recounts the experience of the hundreds of African Americans who are forgotten in Mount Vernon's narrative. Historian and archival sleuth Scott E. Casper recovers the remarkable history of former slave Sarah Johnson, who spent more than fifty years at Mount Vernon, before and after emancipation. Through her life and the lives of her family and friends, Casper provides an intimate picture of Mount Vernon's operation during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, years that are rarely part of its story. Working for the Washington heirs and then the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, these African Americans played an essential part in creating the legacy of Mount Vernon as an American shrine. Their lives and contributions have long been lost to history and erased from memory. Casper restores them both, and in so doing adds a new layer of significance to America's most popular historical estate.


Dining with the Washingtons

Dining with the Washingtons

Author: Stephen Archie McLeod

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0807835269

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Combining vivid photography with engaging essays, Dining with the Washingtons explores the menus, diet, and styles of entertaining that characterized the beloved home of the nation's principal founding father. Compelling accounts, historic artwork, and images of gardens, table settings, prepared food, and objects from the Mount Vernon collection blend to shed fresh light on the daily lives of George and Martha Washington, on their ceaseless stream of household guests and those who served them, and on the ways food and drink reflected the culture of eighteenth-century America. Featuring a foreword by former White House executive chef Walter Scheib and more than 90 historic recipes adapted for today's kitchens by renowned culinary historian Nancy Carter Crump, this book is ideal for veteran and novice cooks alike as well as for those wishing to learn about both formal and everyday dining at Mount Vernon. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including memoirs, diaries, plantation documents, archaeological research, and the personal correspondence of the Washington family and their visitors, this charming volume brings the household of America's first president and his wife vividly to life for modern-day readers. The contributors are: Steven T. Bashore, Manager of Historic Trades, Mount Vernon Carol Borchert Cadou, Robert H. Smith Senior Curator and Vice President for Collections, Mount Vernon Nancy Carter Crump, author and founder, Culinary Historians of Virginia J. Dean Norton, Director of Horticulture, Mount Vernon Dennis J. Pogue, Vice President of Preservation, Mount Vernon Walter Scheib, former executive chef, The White House Mary V. Thompson, Research Historian, Mount Vernon Esther White, Director of Archaeology, Mount Vernon