The Red Hills Of Home

Red hills are located in counties of Leon, Gadsden, Jackson, Jefferson and Madison.

Charlie Brantley loved the summer time! Nobody loved summer time more than Charlie did. Even his little brother and his big sister couldnt out-love Charlie on that! Just waking up on a summer morning and almost feeling the sunlight coming through the openings in the window blinds made his heart seemingly beat double time with excitement! Another whole summer day lay ahead, and there would be so much to do!

A personal testament of the author's heritage, The Red Hills outlines the Pennsylvania Dutch lifestyle as Cornelius Weygandt had experienced it. In the book Weygandt exposed his true passion for his heritage and offers a rich variety on Pennsylvania Dutch characteristics, customs, and crafts, written in an entertaining manner by one who has spent a lifetime collecting their lore.

Several million rural inhabitants of Vietnam’s northern deltas made the decision to move during the twentieth century, seeking to make new homes in the country’s highlands. This book offers a historical analysis of the political economy of migration, stimulated by the French colonial and independent socialist states. It shows how socialist policies especially changed the face of the highlands, as settlers from the plains turned the hills "red."

As a young woman, she entered an arranged marriage, but her husband died before their only child was born. Now that baby boy is ten years old, and Amy focuses all her energy on raising Alex and making a living for them as a seamstress. That is until the red hills stranger arrives. Charles Drake may be from the most disreputable area in this section of the Florida Territory, but something about him elicits feelings in Amy that she has never before experienced. Something tells her she can trust him. . But what secret has caused such a dark shadow to be cast over Charles's life?

Truly powerful vocal performance in musical theater is more than just the sum of good vocal tone and correct notes. As experienced teacher, director, and performer Mark Ross Clark lays out in The Broadway Song, powerful performance communicates the central function of a song within the context of the surrounding narrative, or the "truth" of a song. Because unstaged performances of a song, such as auditions, are key to the success of all aspiring singers, Clark provides here the essential practical manual that will help performers choose the right pieces for their vocal abilities and identify the key truths of them. Clark begins by walking readers conceptually through how a song's truth is based in contexts: what show is a song from? Which character sings it? When in the show does it occur? Answering these questions will lead readers to more convincing performances that are grounded in the text, music, character, context, and larger environment (setting, time frame, and circumstances). The Broadway Song provides a comprehensive guide to the formal characteristics of key Broadway songs on a song-by-song basis, including main voice type, secondary voice qualities (such as soprano-lyric or alto-comic), range and tessitura, as well as larger contextual materials about the source -- from the musical's background, information about the character singing, and synoptic narrative information for the song -- that provide the performer a way into the character. Clark moreover brings his wide-ranging and extensive experience as a director, performer, and teacher to bear in his performance notes on the individual pieces. Additionally, he includes excerpts from short interviews with artists that provide insight into the song from the perspective of those who first created (or re-created) it. The interviews, conducted with composers, lyricists, performers, and -- in one case -- book collaborators, are snapshots into the creative process, and act as conduits to further study of the selected songs.

Red Hills and Cotton is suffused with Ben Robertson's deep affection for his native Upcountry South Carolina. An internationally known and respected journalist, Robertson had a knack for finding the interesting and exotic in seemingly humble or ordinary folk and a keen eye for human interest stories. His power of description and disarmingly straightforward narrative were the hallmarks of his writing. A loyal Southern son, Robertson cherished what he judged to be the South's best traditions: personal independence and responsibility, the rejection of crass materialism, a deep piety, and a love of freedom. He repeatedly lamented the region's many shortcomings: poverty, racial hierarchy, political impotence, lack of inttellectual curiosity, and its tendency to blame all of its twentieth-century problems on the defeat of the Confederacy. An informative and entertaining new introduction by Lacy K. Ford, Jr., associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina, provides fascinating new facts about Robertson's life and recasts his achievements in Red Hills and Cotton as social commentary. Ford captures the essence of Robertson's restless and questioning, but unfailingly Southern, spirit.