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A Washington Post “Most Anticipated” Book of the Year • A New York Times “Must Read” For readers of My Dark Places and The Fact of a Body, a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting one woman’s search for identity alongside her family's decades-long quest to identify the two men who abducted—and murdered—her mother "Melding true crime with memoir, Ervin reminds us of what happens when we conflate people with the transgressions committed against them—the collateral damage we inflict when we turn human beings into moral allegory . . . A powerful treatise on love and loss, on mothers and daughters, but it is also a warning to all of us who consume true crime." —The New York Time...
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" The story of five Headlee brothers and two of their uncles who left northern New Jersey between 1775 and 1800, their trials, tribulations, wanderings and their million + descendants. Joshua M. was in Burke Co., North Carolina by 1782, John was there before 1790 and Elisha and Thomas joined them shortly thereafter. John, Joshua and Thomas in 1805 joined Ephraim who had migrated to Perry township, Greene County, PA in 1795. Elisha went to Tennessee then Greene County, Missouri by 1836. The two uncles, Francis and Joseph Headley were in the two adjoining Morris townships in Greene and Washington Counties from 1790-1820, a few miles north of Ephraim. Ephraim's descendants mostly remained in Perry township for a century. Most of the other three brothers' families moved farther west by 1830." -- t.p.
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For nature lovers as well as cooks, there's plenty to whet the appetite in this unique field guide-cum-cookbook. Starting with the first plants ready for eating in the early spring (watercress and nettles) and following the sequence of harvest through the late fall (persim-mons and Jerusalem artichokes), Kay Young offers full, easy-to-follow directions for identifying, gathering, and preparing some four dozen edible wild plants of the Great Plains. And since most of the plants occur elsewhere as well, residents of other regions will find much of interest here. ø 'This is not a survival book," writes the author; "only those plants whose flavor and availability warrant the time and effort to ...
A genealogy of the descendants of George Dewoody and his wife Martha. They with their three sons left County Antrim, Northern Ireland in about 1784 for America. They settled in Venango County, Pennsylvania in 1796. George died before 1808 and Martha died 19 August 1826 at the age of 88 years. Includes families of George's brother, William who married Hannah Alexander in Washington County, Tennessee in 1791 and died in 1820 in Limestone County, Alabama. The other family included is that of Jeremiah Woody, born approximately 1780 in Buncombe County, North Carolina. He married Mary Ann Ellis and some descendants changed the name to "DeWoody."
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