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From This We Spring
Searching for and writing about the lives of her ancestors has become a passion for author Karen Cox Gray. She has visited France, Switzerland, Belgium and the United Kingdom following the paths of her family roots. In the United States, she has traveled throughout the Eastern states and the Midwest researching the basis of family legends. After a career as an Illinois regional library consultant, Karen compiles her research and writes stories from her home in central Illinois. She is the author of seven previous books. Artist Meghan Cox Meghan Cox is an artist working in Philadelphia. She has exhibited work regionally, nationally and internationally. She is also the recipient of several grants including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. Meghan currently teaches painting and figure drawing at Drexel University.
The Mystery Friendship Club
A mysterious invitation arrives in the mailboxes of nine women from farming community in central Illinois. Who could have sent this message and for what purpose? So begins the story of a group of fun-loving wives and mothers who shared their hopes, triumphs and sorrows as recorded in this memoir of a by-gone era.
William Martin Davis in Baker Woods
Deep in Baker Woods, young William Martin Davis dreams of hunting wild turkeys, both asleep and awake. Based on a family legend passed through five generations of the Davis and Thoman families, this story is a picture of family life on the Illinois frontier in 1842. Enriched by evocative illustrations from artist Natalie Totire, author Karen Cox Grays story is alive with family life and humor. William Martins adventure will be enjoyed by children ages 3-6 as a read-aloud story shared with adults. Older children will like reading this tale of pursuit in the woods for themselves. Classroom studies of pioneer life will be enhanced by this true story of early settlers in the Midwest.
Trekking the Mount Everest Trail
A longed desired trip to see Mount Everest in Nepal became the event of a lifetime for two Midwesterners whose mountain hiking preparation was minimal. This photographic memoir is compiled in homage to the inspiration that carried two neophytes to 17,000 feet on the slopes of the worlds tallest mountain.
Dixie's Daughters
Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books on the Confederates’ Lost Cause Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South—all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox traces the history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause. In this edition, with a new preface, Cox acknowledges the deadly riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, showing why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure. The Daughters, as UDC members were popu...
Daughter of the Boycott
In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city's famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white police officer in a confrontation after he tried to board a city bus. Thomas Gray, who had played football with Hilliard when they were kids, was outraged by the unjustifiable shooting. Gray protested, eventually staging a major downtown march to register voters, and standing up to police brutality. Five years later, he led another protest, this time against unjust treatment on the city's segregated buses. On the front lines of what became the Montgomery bu...
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No Common Ground
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well a...
Descendants of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane
This ambitious work chronicles 250 years of the Cromartie family genealogical history. Included in the index of nearly fifty thousand names are the current generations, and all of those preceding, which trace ancestry to our family patriarch, William Cromartie, who was born in 1731 in Orkney, Scotland, and his second wife, Ruhamah Doane, who was born in 1745. Arriving in America in 1758, William Cromartie settled and developed a plantation on South River, a tributary of the Cape Fear near Wilmington, North Carolina. On April 2, 1766, William married Ruhamah Doane, a fifth-generation descendant of a Mayflower passenger to Plymouth, Stephen Hopkins. If Cromartie is your last name or that of on...
