Somewhere To Lay My Head

Somewhere To Lay My Head PDF Author: Robert Douglas
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 144471936X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his return to Glasgow and life down the pit. Once more, Robert's fantastic memory for people, places and anecdotes, combined with an ear for individual voices and the brilliant ability to evoke a bygone sense of community, will enchant his readers and sometimes appal them with the brutality of conditions he experienced.

A Place to Lay My Head

A Place to Lay My Head PDF Author: Joe A. Moreland
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 110529286X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description
In the early days of his youth, Joe Moreland's family lived a nomadic lifestyle, taking possession of unattended shelter wherever they could find it. This is the tale of his life during those years as best he can recall it.

Hanging Tree Guitars

Hanging Tree Guitars PDF Author: Freeman Vines
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578624037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
To meet Freeman Vines is to meet America itself. An artist, a luthier and a spiritual philosopher, Vines' life is a roadmap of the truths and contradictions of the American South. He remembers the hidden histories of the eastern North Carolina land on which his family has lived since enslavement. For over 50 years Vines has transformed materials culled from a forgotten landscape in his relentless pursuit of building a guitar capable of producing a singular tone that has haunted his dreams. From tobacco barns, mule troughs, and radio parts he has created hand-carved guitars, each instrument seasoned down to the grain by the echoes of its past life. In 2015 Vines befriends photographer Timothy Duffy and the two begin to document the guitars, setting off a mutual outpouring of the creative spirit. But when Vines acquires a mysterious stack of wood from the site of a lynching, Vines and Duffy find themselves each grappling with the spiritual unrest and the psychic toll of racial violence living in the very grain of America.
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