Set in a rural, dusty, Pennsylvania town in 1979, Remember Ruby Gentry follows a thirteen-year-old girl as she struggles to survive her lonely environment while careening towards young womanhood. Things have never been easy for Parker Louise Petty, awkward and slightly overweight, she has lived her life in the shadows of her boozing, man-chasing mother. That all changes when Ruby Gentry moves to town. The unexpected soul sister friendship between the isolated teen and the beautiful southern stranger brings light to Parkers formerly bleak life. When a surprising romance transports Parker to the threshold of womanhood, the desperation of teenage life begins to give way to a new sense of self-worth. But nothing ever goes as planned for Parker, as she finds her new world turned upside down and her path to happiness shattered. Remember Ruby Gentry is an unforgettable story of self-discovery that proves that strength and beauty lie within.

The war memories for each were not easy to tell or write, for some had repressed them long ago. We have been able to live the American Dream through dedicated soldiers as the 250th Field Artillerymen. They spent many nights together away from home with ties that would bind them together that has never loosened over the years. Their stories are inspiring ones of faith, courage, patriotism and some told with humor, which helped to put their experience into perspective - somewhat! During this time, our people here at home were doing their part in everyway they could. Everyone listened to the radio for further news. The good news finally came - from "Day of Infamy" to "VE-VJ Day!" As a light weight 105mm howitzer battalion they would become known for their firing power. They made history and are leaving a legacy to be most proud. They proved they still can answer to the call of duty. I am proud to say, never once did I not enjoy my work with each of these men. Let's just say - we have a deeper friendship than when we began this project together. I became their ears and wrote the word for many of them. I scribbled making notes as they talked and then, when hunched over my keyboard to translate from them working into the early morning hours. I pray I conveyed each story as each of them would have. As I wrote, I got the sense what the American flag meant to each - it symbolized a Tradition of Caring. I wrote with a lump in my throat and a tear in my eyes and, yes, a little snicker.

Hollywood director King Vidor (1894-1982) was acknowledged as a master by movie showmen and cinema critics alike, but the range of his films made him impossible to pigeonhole. With The Big Parade (1925), he created the first modern war film and MGM's first major hit. The Crowd (1928) looked at "ordinary people" in city jungles. Hallelujah (1929) was the first all-black major-studio feature. To the Great Depression, Vidor responded with Our Daily Bread (1934), the politically intricate saga of a rural cooperative. Other Vidor films spoke directly to the moviegoing public: that three-handkerchief male weepie, The Champ (1931); and that key women's drama, Stella Dallas (1937). His high-passion postwar melodramas, spurned by contemporary reviewers, have gained champions each year: the epic western Duel in the Sun (1946); Ayn Rand's ultra-right-wing The Fountainhead (1949); and the violent and morbid Beyond the Forest (1949) and Ruby Gentry (1952). This book is the first in-depth story of Vidor's half-century-long career, from his first attempts to rival Hollywood in his home state of Texas through the complex interplay of his independent spirit with "classic" Hollywood's rules about public taste. The title King Vidor, American, celebrates Vidor as a representative man, full of the conflicting generosity and ferocity in the national ethos: with his violent mixture of pioneering optimism and noir torments, of transcendentalism and puritanism, of spiritual verve and physical practicality, of liberal conscience and Social Darwinist savagery, of male dominance and female conciliation. Like Whitman, he contains multitudes. Never narrowly auteurist, this book is a wide ranging integration of film history, political thought, and popular culture.--Adapted from dust jacket.

Family history of William Harrison Gentry (1860-1947), son of William R. Gentry and Rebecca Riddle, of Lynnville, Hart Township, Warrick Co., Indiana. He was married in 1882 to Rhoda Ellen Fleener (1860-1954), daughter of James Fleener and Nancy Jane Stephens, also of Lynnville. Family members and descendants live in Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and elsewhere.

Set against the backdrop of the New Mexico desert, Cold Heat introduces an eclectic cast of characters that brings the American Southwest to life. Theres Officer Jaime Red Claw of the Alta Sheriffs Department, who discovers skeletal human remains on his day off. Theres fifty-two-year old Bernice Begay of Show Low, Arizona. She creates handmade Native American rugs and blankets and sells them with the help of her two sons Milford and Dilford. Bernices cousin, Tessie, is a basket weaver. Their lives intersect with that of twenty-one-year-old truck driver Kyle Westknown in the Yah-te spirit Bak-Chi-Hloand seventeen-year-old Evan Withers, who is introduced to the interesting world of truck driving as he travels from New York to Mexico. A sequel to Grandfathers Songs, this novel examines the second-class citizenship experienced by Native Americans while focusing on the special qualities of Indian heritage, culture, and families.

In this first biography of legendary banjoist J. D. Crowe, Marty Godbey charts the life and career of one of bluegrass's most important innovators. Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Crowe picked up the banjo when he was thirteen years old, inspired by a Flatt & Scruggs performance at the Kentucky Barn Dance. Godbey relates the long, distinguished career that followed, as Crowe performed and recorded both solo and as part of such varied ensembles as Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, the all-acoustic Kentucky Mountain Boys, and the revolutionary New South, who created an adventurously eclectic brand of bluegrass by merging rock and country music influences with traditional forms. Over the decades, this highly influential group launched the careers of many other fresh talents such as Keith Whitley, Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, and Doyle Lawson. With a selective discography and drawing from more than twenty interviews with Crowe and dozens more with the players who know him best, Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J. D. Crowe is the definitive music biography of a true bluegrass original.

Covers composers, scores, awards, and films, as well as a giant discography of film music recordings.

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