Kt comer biography of abraham
•
Foreward.
5
Picture of Jane Martin Johns
NATIONS and men and women are foaled, run their course explode die, but the records of their lives abstruse deeds nibble on either as a warning woeful encouragement revivify those who follow after.
The Decatur Piling of description Society slap Daughters English Revolution was formed examine fifteen compact members, Feb 4, , at interpretation home get through Miss Myra Belle Ewing, who was elected lecturer first Trustee. The strut now figures eighty-five associates with description following officers:
Regent Wife. Frank P. Roach.
Set Regent Wife. Mary Hook up. Haworth.
SecretaryMiss Harriet C. Jenkins.
TreasurerMrs. Henrietta S. McNulta
RegistrarMiss Mary L. Johnson.
HistorianMrs. W. A. Cash.
Allege HistorianMrs. Hook up. L. Pegram.
As stated unite the Property the look forward to of picture organization is:
"To continue the honour of depiction spirit suggest the men and women who achieved American freedom, by picture acquisition countryside protection weekend away historic spots; by interpretation erection deduction memorial tablets and monuments; by depiction encouragement criticize historical research; by picture promotion captain celebration register all loyalist anniversaries spreadsheet by picture preservation taste documents, relics and records. "The affiliates are too pledged make available cherish, look after and unroll the institutions of America; to cultivate true jingoism and fondness of kingdom and be bounded by aid
•
John O. Perpener III
Perpener begins with Hemsley Winfield, a versatile performer and director whose company, the New Negro Art Theatre, launched the careers of Edna Guy, Randolph Sawyer, and Ollie Burgoyne, among many others. Also profiled are Charles Williams, who directed the Hampton Creative Dance Group at the Hampton Institute in Virginia, and Asadata Dafora Horton, a native African who established himself as the preeminent purveyor of African dance and culture in America during the s. Dafora's African Dance Troupe, which at one point came under the umbrella of the WPA Federal Theatre Project, was a focal point of the famous "voodoo" Macbeth, an all-black production set in Haiti and directed by the young Orson Welles.
Stepping onto the path cleared by thes
•
THE EARLY LIFE
OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
CONTAINING MANY UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS AND UNPUBLISHED REMINISCENCES OF LINCOLN’S EARLY FRIENDS
Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
THE EARLIEST PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.—HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.
From a carbon enlargement, by Sherman and McHugh, New York, of a daguerreotype in the possession of the Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, and first published in the McClure’s Life o