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As custodian of a very thick and very old loose-leaf notebook called "The Bowmar Book," Bill Mead and his brother traced the family history back to 1635. But in all of that lineage, the one who stood out most was their grandfather Herman Bowmar -- known as Moo. Here, Bill takes Moo's story, the life of "a good man."
William Penn and William Mead, Quaker preachers, were tried for "preaching to an unlawful and tumultous assembly in Grace-Church-Street."
The first volume contains arithmetic exercises, with a few pages of poetry at the back, and several loose sheets of poetry and prose inside the front cover. The second volume is a combination commonplace book, again filled with prose and poetry, plus diary entries from July 1852 to May 1854.
Now the Baltimore Orioles, the St. Louis Browns won their only pennant in 1944. This lighthearted look at America's Pastime during World War II reminisces about charity games, cigarette drives, and the bumbling Browns themselves.
William James Mead was born in 1861 at Blenheim, Ontario and was the son of Thomas C. Mead, who was born in Nova Scotia. William immigrated to Fernald, Iowa. He married Emma Jane Smay in 1889 and died in 1924.
Excerpt from The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead for Causing a Tumult at the Sessions Held at the Old Bailey in London, the 1st, 3d, 4th, and 5th of September, 1670: Done by Themselves The home coming soon stripped Penn of the vanity of the French garb, and he became once more a problem. He tried the study of law, but could not interest himself in it. To keep him out of the way and te press his dangerous thoughts he was given the management in 1665, of an estate owned by the Admiral in Ireland, where he went and did as he pleased, falling in again with Thomas Loe and resuming his Quaker views. December 29th, 1667, Pepys records a call from Mrs. Turner and there, among other talk, she ...
Recounts humorous stories about the failures, playing errors, humiliations, and defeats of the New York Yankees baseball team
Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her essays on research methodology relating to contemporary culture. Many of these essays were printed originally in limited circulation journals, research reports and books edited by others. They reflect Mead's continuing commitment to searching out methods for studying and extending the anthropologist's tools of investigation for use in complex societies. Essays on American and European societies, intergenerational relations, architecture and social space, industrialization, and interracial relations are included in this varied and exciting collection.