Millions of Americans moved west to settle the Mississippi Valley and the Great Plains during the tumultuous nineteenth century. In 1850, Dr. James Dudley Gray (1821-1894) set out for Iowa from Marietta, Ohio, following a family migration path pioneered by his oldest brother a decade earlier. Sorrow and Satisfaction: The Life of Dr. James Dudley ......
My Odyssey Through Country Music, Medicine, and History
Beyond the Weeping Willow is the autobiography of country music recording artist and practicing cardiologist Cleve Francis. Born to a struggling family in the small town of Jennings, Louisiana, Cleveland Francis Jr. overcame numerous hurdles-through hard work and resolve-to become a respected and successful medical doctor and also one of the few ......
My Odyssey Through Country Music, Medicine, and History
Beyond the Weeping Willow is the autobiography of country music recording artist and practicing cardiologist Cleve Francis. Born to a struggling family in the small town of Jennings, Louisiana, Cleveland Francis Jr. overcame numerous hurdles-through hard work and resolve-to become a respected and successful medical doctor and also one of the few ......
A mother's memoir that reckons with her son's descent into severe mental illness. What appears to be substance use disorder in high school later becomes a dual diagnosis as bipolar disorder emerges. Her son soon grows disillusioned with prescribed pharmaceuticals and participates in a residential treatment program that assists people in forgoing ......
Award-winning wildlife ecologist and bestselling author Anne LaBastille was a trailblazer in every sense of the word. Perhaps best known for her seminal wilderness book Woodswoman, recounting her years spent living in a remote Adirondacks cabin, and which inspired countless women to shun societal dictates and pursue their passions, LaBastille ......
Celebrated as one of the great landscape architects of his era, Jens Jensen drew on his love of nature to transform Illinois and the Midwest. Chicago's Columbus Park and the Lincoln Memorial Garden in Springfield, Illinois, remain part of his vast living legacy while Jensen's conservation work influenced the establishment of national parks and ......
Celebrated as one of the great landscape architects of his era, Jens Jensen drew on his love of nature to transform Illinois and the Midwest. Chicago's Columbus Park and the Lincoln Memorial Garden in Springfield, Illinois, remain part of his vast living legacy while Jensen's conservation work influenced the establishment of national parks and ......
A veteran cancer physician, Dr Fazlur Rahman's story is astonishing. He was born and raised in a Mullah family, an old-line Muslim clan, in a remote village in what is now Bangladesh, with its hardships and heartaches, its myths and superstitions. The people, places and cultures that he was a part of have almost entirely disappeared. The temples, ......
Discover the little-known story of the famous inventor's time in the Sunshine State Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was America's most famous and, arguably, most prolific inventor. But few realize the extent to which he called Florida, not New Jersey, home. From 1885 until his death in 1931, Edison wintered in the sleepy Gulf Coast town of ......
