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Fluff
At the turn of the twentieth century, Boston was a booming candy town. Of all the tantalizing treats, nothing has stuck around like Marshmallow Fluff. Since that time, the small, family-run company Durkee-Mower has churned out a century of Fluff with the secretive air of Willy Wonka. Little has been made of this extraordinary legacy—until now.To author Mimi Graney, Fluff is more than a retro ingredient. It is a story about the merits and pitfalls of adaptation and innovation. Graney deftly brings the factory floor alive, weaving a fascinating narrative about New England's forgotten candy industry, changing social roles for women, the advent of commercial radio and modern advertising, and the supermarket revolution. Fluff has survived two world wars, corporate attacks, nutrition battles, and the rise and fall of manufacturing towns. The world has changed around it, yet this icon remains the same.
The Root Family
John Root was born in about 1774 in Schnedes, Germany. He married Barbara Lane in about 1794 in Virginia. They had twelve children. He married Louisa Barbara Hussong in 1838 in Montgomery County, Ohio. They had one child. He died in about 1846 in Miami County, Ohio. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ohio, Indiana and Oklahoma.
A Noble Fight
A Noble Fight examines the metaphors and meanings behind the African American appropriation of the culture, ritual, and institution of freemasonry in navigating the contested terrain of American democracy. Combining cultural and political theory with extensive archival research--including the discovery of a rare collection of nineteenth-century records of an African American Freemason Lodge--Corey D. B. Walker provides an innovative perspective on American politics and society during the long transition from slavery to freedom. With great care and detail, Walker argues that African American freemasonry provides a critical theoretical lens for understanding the distinctive ways African Americ...
From Gainsborough to Constable
This is the catalogue to the exhibition held in summer 1991 at Gainsborough House, Sudbury, focusing on Constable and the artists whose work was important to him in his formative years - Gainsborough, Wilson, Beaumont and Farington. This exhibition complements the 1991 Tate Gallery exhibition which omits Constable's early work.
Days of Torture
All of her life, forty-year-old Sandy Tucker has been a kind and trusting soul. Owner of the Fancy Hair and Manicures salon in Michelle, Tennessee, she hires Amber Lynn Newby as a manicure specialist. Sandy cares about and trusts Amber like a sister. But Sandy soon discovers the feeling is not mutual. Two days after Sandys fortieth birthday, Amber and her boyfriend Todd Adams brutally attack and torture her. She endures rape, burns, scalding by acid, starvation, and a gunshot to the head. She knows its a miracle she survived. Paralyzed from the neck down, Sandy embarks on a difficult and slow recovery, aided Jerry Haggard, her boyfriend, as well as her friends from the salon. Sandy knows God has never left her side. But nightmares still haunt Sandy as Amber and Todd were never found or arrested. Sandy fears that Amber the psychopath will come back to finish the job.
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