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Condición: Very Good. V13 N38, September 19, 1936; B/W throughout, color wrapper, 62pp, saddle-stitched, 5 cents cover price. Vintage general-interest magazine, a title featuring short stories, serials, articles, cartoons, often full-pg illustration. Each entry has its own "reading time," ads for autos, booze, cigarettes, home goods. Featured: John Barrymore illus. cover, "Ol' Judge Robbins" comic ad for Prince Albert tobacco, "Ghosts on the Tennis Court," "Nemesis in Hollywood," "Bivouac in Hell," "Wife Trouble," "Sex for School Children" education, "The Strangler of the Bronx," "Godiva Was a Lady" (spanking illus.), ads (Colgate, Shinola, Schlitz, Lucky Strike).Very Good, edge foxing and creasing, a few tiny closed tears, crossword completed in pencil.

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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. The Wiley Chronicles - Book One: The Early YearsA Delta Family. A Legacy Worth Preserving. A Story America Needs to Hear.Nineteen children. One Mississippi Delta farmhouse.A legacy stitched from sweat, survival, faith, and fierce love.The Wiley Chronicles - Nineteen Voices. One Legacy opens the door to a world rarely captured with such intimacy. A firsthand look at a Black sharecropping family navigating the 1930s-1960s Mississippi Delta. Through vivid storytelling, humor, heartbreak, and hope, three sisters, Sylvia Wills, Clem Wiley-Rogers, and Dr. Thelma Wiley Lucas, reconstruct the world that shaped them.From cotton fields at first light to porch-light wisdom, schoolhouse adventures, potbelly stove memories, and the joys and trials of growing up in a family of nineteen, this book preserves history the way it truly lived: loud, loving, and unforgettable.Alongside personal memories are Delta Echoes. Rich historical interludes that place the Wiley family's story inside the larger tapestry of the Jim Crow South, the Great Migration, and the cultural resilience of the Black American experience.Inside these pages, you'll discover: The rhythms of sharecropping life and the unspoken rules of the DeltaChildhood stories full of mischief, laughter, and lessons learned the hard wayThe power of a mother's steady hands and a father's unyielding work ethicHow a family of twenty-one moved like a machine; tight, determined, and full of heartA living record of Black Southern history told by those who lived itBoth deeply personal and historically grounded, The Wiley Chronicles honors the elders who endured, the children who remembered, and the descendants who continue the legacy.Why Readers Love This Book: This powerful, raw, and heartfelt memoir written by the children of Tealy and Clemonteen Wiley reads like sitting on the porch with family, listening, laughing, learning and feeling every bit of the Delta sun. It is oral history captured on the page, preserving stories before they are lost and celebrating the strength of a people who refused to break.Perfect for readers of multigenerational memoirs, African American history, Southern storytelling, and anyone who believes our stories deserve to be remembered. A multi-voiced African American family memoir rooted in the Mississippi Delta, preserving oral history, faith, and resilience through the lived experiences of a sharecropping family raising nineteen children during the Jim Crow era. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Before the recipes were written down, they were lived.Country Kitchen preserves the culinary traditions, family roles, and faith-centered practices that sustained a large Southern family in the Mississippi Delta. Raised in a household of nineteen children, the Wiley family learned early that food was more than nourishment. It was structure, responsibility, and care in action.This companion to The Wiley Chronicles brings together narrative storytelling and practical preparation, offering readers both cultural context and approachable recipes rooted in memory and tradition.Designed as both a keepsake and a working kitchen companion, Country Kitchen serves readers interested in Southern foodways, African American cultural heritage, and the preservation of generational knowledge.In the Mississippi Delta, food was never just food. It meant planning ahead. Preparing for what was coming. Trusting that hard work would carry you through. Neighbors stepping into your yard without needing to be asked. Children learning early that if you were big enough to watch, you were big enough to learn.Hog Killin' Day wasn't something we announced. It came when it was time. Everybody knew their place. Men in the yard. Mama in the kitchen. Older girls moving steady beside her. Boys learning by carrying. Young ones learning by watching. Neighbors coming because that's how it worked.Nobody called it tradition. Nobody called it preservation. It was simply how we lived.The Wiley Chronicles tells who we were.Country Kitchen shows how we fed ourselves along the way.If you read slowly, you'll hear the voices.If you cook from it, you'll feel the hands.And if it reminds you of your own people, then it has done exactly what it was meant to do. Country Kitchen is a cultural legacy cookbook preserving food, faith & family traditions. Blending stories and recipes, this keepsake volume captures the knowledge, memories and love passed down in a household of 19 children. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. The Wiley Chronicles - Book One: The Early YearsA Delta Family. A Legacy Worth Preserving. A Story America Needs to Hear.Nineteen children. One Mississippi Delta farmhouse.A legacy stitched from sweat, survival, faith, and fierce love.The Wiley Chronicles - Nineteen Voices. One Legacy opens the door to a world rarely captured with such intimacy. A firsthand look at a Black sharecropping family navigating the 1930s-1960s Mississippi Delta. Through vivid storytelling, humor, heartbreak, and hope, three sisters, Sylvia Wills, Clem Wiley-Rogers, and Dr. Thelma Wiley Lucas, reconstruct the world that shaped them.From cotton fields at first light to porch-light wisdom, schoolhouse adventures, potbelly stove memories, and the joys and trials of growing up in a family of nineteen, this book preserves history the way it truly lived: loud, loving, and unforgettable.Alongside personal memories are Delta Echoes. Rich historical interludes that place the Wiley family's story inside the larger tapestry of the Jim Crow South, the Great Migration, and the cultural resilience of the Black American experience.Inside these pages, you'll discover: The rhythms of sharecropping life and the unspoken rules of the DeltaChildhood stories full of mischief, laughter, and lessons learned the hard wayThe power of a mother's steady hands and a father's unyielding work ethicHow a family of twenty-one moved like a machine; tight, determined, and full of heartA living record of Black Southern history told by those who lived itBoth deeply personal and historically grounded, The Wiley Chronicles honors the elders who endured, the children who remembered, and the descendants who continue the legacy.Why Readers Love This Book: This powerful, raw, and heartfelt memoir written by the children of Tealy and Clemonteen Wiley reads like sitting on the porch with family, listening, laughing, learning and feeling every bit of the Delta sun. It is oral history captured on the page, preserving stories before they are lost and celebrating the strength of a people who refused to break.Perfect for readers of multigenerational memoirs, African American history, Southern storytelling, and anyone who believes our stories deserve to be remembered. A multi-voiced African American family memoir rooted in the Mississippi Delta, preserving oral history, faith, and resilience through the lived experiences of a sharecropping family raising nineteen children during the Jim Crow era. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Before the recipes were written down, they were lived.Country Kitchen preserves the culinary traditions, family roles, and faith-centered practices that sustained a large Southern family in the Mississippi Delta. Raised in a household of nineteen children, the Wiley family learned early that food was more than nourishment. It was structure, responsibility, and care in action.This companion to The Wiley Chronicles brings together narrative storytelling and practical preparation, offering readers both cultural context and approachable recipes rooted in memory and tradition.Designed as both a keepsake and a working kitchen companion, Country Kitchen serves readers interested in Southern foodways, African American cultural heritage, and the preservation of generational knowledge.In the Mississippi Delta, food was never just food. It meant planning ahead. Preparing for what was coming. Trusting that hard work would carry you through. Neighbors stepping into your yard without needing to be asked. Children learning early that if you were big enough to watch, you were big enough to learn.Hog Killin' Day wasn't something we announced. It came when it was time. Everybody knew their place. Men in the yard. Mama in the kitchen. Older girls moving steady beside her. Boys learning by carrying. Young ones learning by watching. Neighbors coming because that's how it worked.Nobody called it tradition. Nobody called it preservation. It was simply how we lived.The Wiley Chronicles tells who we were.Country Kitchen shows how we fed ourselves along the way.If you read slowly, you'll hear the voices.If you cook from it, you'll feel the hands.And if it reminds you of your own people, then it has done exactly what it was meant to do. Country Kitchen is a cultural legacy cookbook preserving food, faith & family traditions. Blending stories and recipes, this keepsake volume captures the knowledge, memories and love passed down in a household of 19 children. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. The Wiley Chronicles - Book One: The Early YearsA Delta Family. A Legacy Worth Preserving. A Story America Needs to Hear.Nineteen children. One Mississippi Delta farmhouse.A legacy stitched from sweat, survival, faith, and fierce love.The Wiley Chronicles - Nineteen Voices. One Legacy opens the door to a world rarely captured with such intimacy. A firsthand look at a Black sharecropping family navigating the 1930s-1960s Mississippi Delta. Through vivid storytelling, humor, heartbreak, and hope, three sisters, Sylvia Wills, Clem Wiley-Rogers, and Dr. Thelma Wiley Lucas, reconstruct the world that shaped them.From cotton fields at first light to porch-light wisdom, schoolhouse adventures, potbelly stove memories, and the joys and trials of growing up in a family of nineteen, this book preserves history the way it truly lived: loud, loving, and unforgettable.Alongside personal memories are Delta Echoes. Rich historical interludes that place the Wiley family's story inside the larger tapestry of the Jim Crow South, the Great Migration, and the cultural resilience of the Black American experience.Inside these pages, you'll discover: The rhythms of sharecropping life and the unspoken rules of the DeltaChildhood stories full of mischief, laughter, and lessons learned the hard wayThe power of a mother's steady hands and a father's unyielding work ethicHow a family of twenty-one moved like a machine; tight, determined, and full of heartA living record of Black Southern history told by those who lived itBoth deeply personal and historically grounded, The Wiley Chronicles honors the elders who endured, the children who remembered, and the descendants who continue the legacy.Why Readers Love This Book: This powerful, raw, and heartfelt memoir written by the children of Tealy and Clemonteen Wiley reads like sitting on the porch with family, listening, laughing, learning and feeling every bit of the Delta sun. It is oral history captured on the page, preserving stories before they are lost and celebrating the strength of a people who refused to break.Perfect for readers of multigenerational memoirs, African American history, Southern storytelling, and anyone who believes our stories deserve to be remembered. A multi-voiced African American family memoir rooted in the Mississippi Delta, preserving oral history, faith, and resilience through the lived experiences of a sharecropping family raising nineteen children during the Jim Crow era. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Buch. Condición: Neu. The Wiley Chronicles - Book One | Nineteen Voices. One Legacy | Sylvia Wills (u. a.) | Buch | Englisch | 2026 | Wills Publishing | EAN 9798295688454 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.