Patricia Sullivan
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In the 1930s and 1940s, a loose alliance of blacks and whites, individuals and organizations, came together to offer a radical alternative to southern conservative politics. In Days of Hope, Patricia Sullivan traces the rise and fall of this movement. Using oral interviews with participants in this movement as well as documentary sources, she demonstrates that the New Deal era inspired a coalition of liberals, black activists, labor organizers, and...
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As they drove through the hot flat Iraqi desert, Patricia looked over at her husband. He was guzzling water, sweat was running down his neck, the outside temperature was way over 100, and their 1963 VW camper van had no air conditioning. "Yikes," she thought. "This is not how I pictured our honeymoon." It was August of 1966. They had gone to Europe the previous summer after their wedding, and that trip had stretched into a two-year adventure that...
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Duarrigle Castle is home to the seven Irish Rascals where Timmy sets all the traps for the girls to fall into. After Timmy cutting the rope from the top of the hill, the children board Timmy's hand-made canoe down the river. The canoe soon falls apart with the seven children ending up falling overboard. The annual Jumble Sale cons the other children into paying Timmy an entrance fee of 50p for a book (from Mr. Houlihan's child-craft collection) which...
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It is 1965 in this memoir when Patricia and her new husband set off on to Europe on their honeymoon. Little did she know that this trip would stretch into a two-year journey that would take them around the world on a bare-bones budget. While living rarely more than an arm's distance apart in their VW van, they make their way from Europe and West Asia to South Asia, then continue across East Asia by train, bus, and hitchhiking. In those days with no...
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The historic, handsome city in the shadow of Los Angeles has been a creative hotbed since the Arroyo Arts & Crafts scene of the early twentieth century. This literary journal gathers short fiction by such Pasadena-area writers as Michelle Huneven (Blame), Victoria Patterson (This Vacant Paradise), Jervey Tervalon (Understand This), Naomi Hirahara (Snakeskin Shamisen), Lian Dolan (Helen of Pasadena), Ron Koertge (The Arizona Kid), Dianne Emley (the...