![]() ![]() In the 1970’s, a fine local historian named Bob Barker was a frequent visitor at the offices of the Cherokee Scout. It’s a tangled tale with ties to Murphy, Andrews, the Cherokee Scout, local history and one of my novels, Rebel Bushwhacker. ![]() The Fain Building in downtown Murphy was built by Fain’s relatives, currently housing Paula’s Jewelers. Gatwood’s name is on a tombstone at Ducktown, identifying him as the killer of Clayton Fain, a Fannin County political leader. The young men were headed to Cleveland to join the Union Army, which he despised. He murdered a group of Fannin County, Georgia youths in the gorge, where today’s US-64 crosses Madden Branch. ![]() Gatewood and he was often described as Captain Gatewood his band of thieves and killers called Gatewood’s Scouts. One of the deadliest Southern guerillas during the Civil War is still little-known today, although he brought pure hell to Tennessee and Georgia counties just south and west of us. “‘Red-Headed Beast’ was Stone-Cold” by Wally Avett ![]()
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![]() ![]() Set in the African-American community of the fictional crossroads town of Harmony, Ala., in 1950, "Honeydripper" devotes much of its time to spaces that don't even qualify as neighborhoods: a struggling backwoods juke joint, a cotton field, a train depot, an Army barracks. But I'm kind of interested in what's in that neighborhood." "Say you're walking from here to there, and there's this neighborhood, and people say, 'That's a funky neighborhood, you gotta avoid that neighborhood.' I feel that's what most movies do, what most generic movies do - 'That's just gonna complicate our story if we get more real.' Part of your job as a Hollywood screenwriter is to simplify, simplify, simplify. Said Sayles, who brings his new movie, "Honeydripper," to the Indie Memphis Film Festival tonight: ![]() Filmmaker John Sayles ought to like Memphis, a city where the distance between zones of affluence and neglect, uniformity and eccentricity, and perceived danger and safety often can be measured with just a few footsteps. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two stories share many similarities in plot line and imagery. The 1830 story is titled Adelaide - das Mädchen vom Alpengebirge-translated, "Adelaide, the girl from the Alps". She was interred in the family plot at the Sihlfeld-A Cemetery in Zürich.Īn icon in Switzerland, Spyri's portrait was placed on a postage stamp in 1951 and on a 20 CHF commemorative coin in 2009. Alone, she devoted herself to charitable causes and wrote over fifty more stories before her death in 1901. While living in the city of Zürich she began to write about life in the country. ![]() ![]() In 1852, Johanna Heusser married Bernhard Spyri. (age 74) Hirzel, Horgen District, Switzerlandīorn in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels. ![]() ![]() He brings together the destinies of migrants of the first-wave of the Indian diaspora. I contend that in Sea of Poppies (2008), he sets out to undertake a similar task as he focuses on Indian indentured labour. Chambers points out that the novel is peopled with faceless migrants going to Egypt hoping for a better life, and argues that Ghosh subverts the picaresque to expose globalisation (36). ![]() ![]() Building upon Claire Chambers’s analysis of Ghosh’s first novel, The Circle of Reason (1981), I will focus on the motif of the journey as associated with labour. His diasporic characters are a lens to expose the world’s globalisation and cosmopolitanism. In The Shadow Lines (1988), characters travel between England and India, and between India and Pakistan in The Hungry Tide (2004), they explore the Sundarbans Rivers. His writing focuses on interstitial spaces where characters travel, and the topos of the journey prevails in his fiction. ![]() The narrative open (.)ġ Amitav Ghosh, like other writers such as Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, is part of what Elleke Boehmer calls “migrant literature” (11). ![]() But there are some things you can never run away from. The girls vault into the unknown, risking everything for a new and limitless life. Except Frankie doesn’t want to rat her out. ![]() Then Frankie, a step-cousin she barely knows, figures out what she’s plotting, and the plan seems like it’s ruined. But there’s also l’appel du vide, the call of the void, that beckons her toward a new life where she will be tied to no one, free and adrift. She’s figured out the how, the when, the where, and who will help her unsuspectingly. After years of research, Maude has decided to fake her own death. ![]() ![]() At least, that’s what she wants everyone to think. Two girls fake their deaths only to face mortal danger in this YA thriller perfect for fans of The Twin and None Shall Sleep. "A clever page-turner that I couldn’t put down."-Natasha Preston, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author ![]() ![]() ![]() owns a number of works on arithmetic, the theory of chronology, cosmography and geography: "Anania Shirakatsi's mathematics - about weights and measures", "Questions and Solutions" (a collection of arithmetic problems), a treatise on the calendar and cosmography, "Geography" (“Ashkharatsuyts”, previously attributed to Movses Khorenatsi). model, but after the death of Catholicos Anastas, his work remained unclaimed. created a fixed calendar according to Rome. ![]() In Armenia, they used a mobile solar calendar: all years consisted of 365 days (there were no leap years), due to which the beginning of the year and church holidays gradually moved through the seasons. historians know that Catholicos Anastas (662-668) instructed A. engaged in educational activities and taught "the science of numbers."įrom the messages of the arm. Seeing that he "did not know all the science", he went to K-pol, from there to Trebizond, where the famous Greek scientist Tikhik (Tyuhik), "full of wisdom and versed in Armenian writing" became his teacher. IV Armenia for learning from the mathematician Christosatur. Through Theodosiopolis (Karin) he arrived in prov. Having studied the Holy Scripture and Arm. Sh.'s brief autobiography (where he calls himself "Shirakatsi" (Shirak), as well as "Shirakavantsi" and "son of Ioannes Shirakayni"). The initial period of his life is known from A. ![]() scientist, mathematician, cosmographer and paschal connoisseur, writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The following year, Card published a sequel to Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, which also won the Nebula, making Card one of the few writers to win this award twice. Ender’s Game was a great commercial and critical success, and won Card the coveted Nebula Award, the highest honor for American science fiction writers. It was during this time that Card published the short story “Ender’s Game,” which he would turn into a novel in 1985. For most of the late 70s and early 80s, Card presided over his theater company while also working at the BYU press. candidate at the University of Notre Dame, but dropped out to found a theater company, the Utah Valley Repertory Theater Company. Afterwards, he studied at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah, where he majored in English. As a young man, he worked as a Mormon missionary in Brazil. His family was devoutly Mormon, and he studied the Book of Mormon from an early age. Orson Scott Card was born in Washington, and grew up in various states, including California, Arizona, and Utah. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s interested in investigating people with rare neurological conditions, not simply because of his duties as a doctor, but because he wants to understand how human beings live with their conditions and adapt accordingly. Sacks is an erudite man (sometimes comically so) whose knowledge of music, literature, and history matches his knowledge of neurology. Although Sacks’s primary role in the book is that of an observer and a dispassionate scientific researcher, we gradually get a distinct sense of his personality. ![]() The author and narrator of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks spent many years working with patients with rare neurological disorders, and his research formed the basis for the book (each chapter is structured around a different patient). ![]() ![]() The short, an homage to Yushio Mishima’s film, Yûkoku (The Rite of Love and Death) has screened in cities around Europe and received some positive reviews. The film has just two characters, one of whom is a mathematician played by Frankel himself, and involves, among other things, an existentialist crisis, sex and a significant tattoo. Professor Edward Frenkel’s 26-minute film, Rites of Love and Math, which has its North American première tonight, Wednesday, December 1, at Berkeley’s Shattuck Cinemas, has triggered an upset on campus, according to UC Berkeley News Center which reports that the campus-based Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, one of two original co-sponsors of the screening, withdrew its support on Sunday in response to criticism from people who had seen the movie’s trailer and found it “disturbing, offensive and/or insulting to women.” A UC Berkeley math professor is causing something of a controversy with a movie which aims to demonstrate his thesis - one he teaches to his students - that multivariable calculus and other mathematical formulas are inherently beautiful. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Fox and the Cat aren’t tricksters, but assassins. In Italy, a Catholic country, the joke is that Pinocchio is “two in one,” just as God is “three in one.” Pinocchio was first published as a short serial of 15 episodes, from July to October 1881. What became The Adventures of Pinocchio really encompasses two novels. Collodi’s is a multilayered work of fiction that, although primarily aimed at young readers, is imbued with social criticism and pessimistic humor, and can be read, among other things, as an irreverent attack on established authority. The 19th-century Italian author, who wrote the book that inspired the Disney movie and countless other adaptations (including the live-action reboot released last week and another version from the director Guillermo del Toro coming out later this year), saw his character very differently.Ī radical political commentator who turned to children’s literature late in life, Collodi wrote a complex, unsettling novel-miles away from the morality tale that Pinocchio’s story has become. At this, Carlo Collodi would most likely shake his head. Asked to name the two most important things about Pinocchio, most Americans would answer: First, his nose grows when he lies, and second, he is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. ![]() |