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While the people of the Palatinate Region in Germany were suffering through war and oppression during the 1600s and 1700s, North America was offering farmland and freedom to those who worked for it. In America, it was not about who you were but what you could do. The stage was set for a massive immigration to “The Promised Land.” Among those coming to America was young Johannes Peter Dietrich, the founder of a prolific Deatrick/Dedrick line in the new world. Peter’s journey would take him across the ocean to Philadelphia, down the Great Wagon Road to the Shenandoah Valley, and through the Cumberland Gap to the southern Indiana frontier. He would join the fight for freedom in the Revolutionary War; farm the fertile land of Virginia; and clear the wilderness forests of Indiana. His descendants would carry their fight for freedom, as they saw it, during the Civil War. The story of the Deatricks of Indiana and the Dedricks of Virginia all begin with one man. Take a step back in time and enjoy the saga of a family whose story is as monumental as the great land Peter Dietrich adopted as his new home so long ago.
He was outgoing, could spin a yarn and sing an Irish tune. She was quiet, shy and a midwife of local renown. He from County Monaghan, and she from County Galway. They likely would not have crossed paths in Ireland, but each shared their own stories of heartbreak and survival through the starving times of Ireland and settlement in America.. Somehow they found each other in America, and a way forward to grow a family and thrive in the melting pot of southern Indiana. Learn of their heartbreak and happiness through the turbulent late 19th and early 20th centuries of Ireland and America.
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This text explains how to perceive errors in sport and bounce back from them positively. It explores how mistakes can lead to the development of new strategies and tactics, define strengths as well as weaknesses, build mental toughness and subsequently enhance performance.
Growing up on a farm in rural Kentucky, fifteen-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow knows how to do a lot, but when her mom dies after a young illness, Bertie finds herself in charge of four younger siblings and struggling to keep the family together.
For three years a mysterious potato blight devastated Ireland's cla-cháns, townlands, and cities. Nearly a million died. Was it the prospect of starvation, the snows of Black '47, or the fear of typhus that made the Bodkins leave? Or was it the dream of America's freedom and opportunity that drove the family from Galway onto an Irish coffin ship known as Cushlamachree? Their destination was Brooklyn. An unimaginable hurdle confronted the seven young Bodkin siblings, only days after docking in New York. Would the "fever" get them, too? But they managed to survive into adulthood as they were led by their two oldest brothers-Dominic and Martin. Dominic, a fledgling surgeon on the Alabama battlefields of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, spends thirty-five years delivering and caring for thousands of Brooklyn babies. Martin, a Civil War veteran, and later an ironmonger with his own shop, ultimately is the progenitor of a large family of New York Bodkins. Briarhill to Brooklyn is a novel, grounded in facts, in which Jack Bodkin tells the story of his Irish Catholic family's 1848 migration from County Galway, Ireland, to Brooklyn, New York, in the era of the Irish Potato Famine.
This is an educational book that used biographical points to illustrate lessons learned in the author's developmental years. It also reflects the author's career as a professional educator in the public schools of Iowa. The focus of the book is on the development of personal understanding through the experiences encountered growing up on an Iowa farm in the 1940's and 50's. The book is divided into four segments and includes 40 different essays under titled themes. The lessons are tied to common tasks and challenged encountered in a farm environment. The farm experience reflects the change from subsistence farming common to the era to the development of today's commercial farming. The farm is the context. The learning is universal.