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My heart is in the earth : true stories of Alabama and Mexico / by Wayne Greenhaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenhaw, Wayne, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greenhaw, Wayne, 1940---Childhood and youth--Anecdotes.
- Greenhaw, Wayne.
- Greenhaw, Wayne, 1940---Travel--Mexico--Anecdotes.
- Greenhaw, Wayne, 1940-.
- Travel.
- Manners and customs.
- Social conditions.
- Mexico.
- Alabama.
- Alabama--Social life and customs--20th century--Anecdotes.
- Alabama--Social conditions--20th century--Anecdotes.
- Alabama--Biography--Anecdotes.
- Lawrence County (Ala.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Anecdotes.
- Lawrence County (Ala.).
- Lawrence County (Ala.)--Biography--Anecdotes.
- Mexico--Description and travel--Anecdotes.
- Mexico--Social life and customs--Anecdotes.
- Mexico--Biography--Anecdotes.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 305 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montgomery, Ala. : River City Pub., [2001]
- Summary:
- In this collection of articles, many published in the New York Times and other periodicals, veteran journalist Wayne Greenhaw shares his lifelong affection for Alabama and Mexico.
- Explore the rough-and-tumble early days of Alabama, when the Creeks killed hundreds of white settlers at Fort Mims, which became the largest massacre in the U.S.
- Travel with Greenhaw from Tuscaloosa to San Miguel de Allende in the heart of Mexico, where he meets not only a family rich in Mexican history, but a band of Beatnik poets including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
- Meet an Alabama-raised architect who re-established the silver industry in Taxco and turned it into an art. Walk with William Spratling through his adopted hometown, where he cavorted with movie stars and politicians.
- Greenhaw, with his heart in the earth of both countries, draws a powerful portrait of two dramatic places, both peopled with interesting characters living inimitable lives.
- Contents:
- In search of the past
- The Sunday of Seven Bridges Road
- Remembering Bobby Shelton and the Ku Klux Klan
- Asa Earl Carter : a man with two identities
- Another time, another place
- Nanny was wrong about Mister Roosevelt
- Bub Able
- Regular work, meat on the table
- The electric bill
- I'll tell you about Nub
- Of the mule and the thoroughbred
- Two Alabamians
- Echoes of triumph and defeat
- Half pints and rain barrels
- Goldville, Ala., didn't pan out
- Lottie Lett, 90 years, Alabama, never bed sick, gone now.
- A girl's story
- Time runs out for George Wallace
- The same earth
- Secrets behind the walls
- Behind another wall
- Scotty
- Gabriela
- Roy
- William Spratling : Alabama's Mexican connection
- Juan Quezada : feeling the heart of the earth
- The death mask of Frida : a poem
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo : gentle giant, tortured soul
- The Mayan quartet
- In love with Mexico.
- ISBN:
- 0913515167
- OCLC:
- 47767119
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