Lets Go See Mother Wilkersons Farm

This book is designed for the world of children and adults who are unfamiliar with the early 20th century farm culture. It is created as a tool for early learners through the eyes of exrtraordinary Art by artist, Mother Lizzie Wilkerson. Each reader will learn farm history in the form of Art, alphabets, and words' recognitions;12 colorful paintings introduces details for accelerated learning. The design requires minimal coaching from an adult.

Th is book is published in honor of Mrs. Lizzie Wilkerson, artist, who was born in 1900 in a rural community of Newton County, Georgia, USA. She was the youngest of 21 children, although she was childless. In 1919, she married Dewey Wilkerson a local friend, laborer/mechanic, and moved to Atlanta. In 1978, her brilliant and unique talent was discovered through a Georgia State University community outreach program, headed by Jean Ellen Jones, Professor Emeritus of Art. Following three successful, separate shows in the Atlanta metropolitan area, Mrs. Wilkersons artwork hangs in the most prestigious museums of the United State. Animal Parade is in the permanent collection at the Museum of American Folk Art, New York, New York; Covington Country Plantation hangs in the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. and Pink Angel is in the permanent collection at Atlanta High Museum of Art. Mrs. Wilkerson died in 1984 at the age of 84, following a brief illness. During the last survey, owners of her art have refused all requests from buyers regardless of the amounts.

This book is designed for the world of children and adults who are unfamiliar with the early 20th century farm culture. It is created as a tool for early learners through the eyes of exrtraordinary Art by artist, Mother Lizzie Wilkerson. Each reader will learn farm history in the form of Art, alphabets, and words' recognitions;12 colorful paintings introduces details for accelerated learning. The design requires minimal coaching from an adult.

These books are designed for the world of children and adults who are unfamiliar with the early 20th century farming culture. They are created as teaching experiences seen through the eyes of extraordinary art by artist, Mother Lizzie Wilkerson. Not only will the reader enjoy farm history in the form of art, but will also love the challenge of finding the details of each painting by number. The mysteries of knowing what are a well, a milk chrun, a sausage making machine or a rub board are solved through the artist's descriptions. The Art and History Adventures (Volume 1) are filled with excitement and discovery of a culture from 100 years ago. The third adventure, Enterprise, (Volume 2) exposes the reader to the classic model of the farm enterprise used to produce new enterprises ranging from a lemonade stand to architecture, electronics or fashions; using the Golden Seven Values- beginning with hard work and ending with rewards. To enhance this exciting journey, a song entitled, We are Producers/Consumers, is included for class singing. The next adventure, Your Winning Future, (Volume 2) shows a picture album of young achievers for inspiration for the learners to go to a higher level of production. In addition, a poem for memorization is included entitled, Your Winning Future. The fourth level of growth challenge is The Self-Expression Adventure. Memorization of the poem, Breakthrough your Breakdowns is recommended for managing life challenges. Also, each student should write a poem which best expresses his/her educational goals/career ambition. The final progress indicator is The Platinum Growth Adventure. Each student is encouraged to select and read one book or more per month from the appendix reading list; learn the nutritional values of, and eat fresh fruits and vegetables; visit a farm and write an essay for class reading.

Two children visit a farm and see all the different animals.

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.

While recalling a childhood spent in the North Carolina countryside--the same landscape that has served as the setting for most of his many beloved novels--Reynolds Price shares powerful stories of the friends and family who helped shape his life into the man, and the writer, he is today.