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The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 2003/2004, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

Newsletter ^ERSnY OF THE PACIFIC, STOCKTON. CA Volume 14, Number l Winter 2008-2004 John Mum and Civilization Corinne Wong, Clackamas, Oregon (Editor's note: Corinne Wong is a graduating senior double majoring in Environmental Studies and Geosciences. In addition, Wong is a student athlete in women's basketball at the University of the Pacific. This paper was prepared in the Fall of 2002 for an undergraduate course, "John Muir and the Environment.") J-ohn Muir was very much a man of nature. He was a geologist, botanist, mountaineer, nature writer, and, as most commonly recognized, a conservationist. His love for nature is a …

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Southern Register. 2003.3 (Fall 2003), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture.

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Mlgpa News (Fall 2003), Maggie Allen

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

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The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2003, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

LETTER UwiVfeRsnYoFTHfi Pacific, Stockton, CA- Volume 13, Number 4 Fall 2003! uir & his Reading Interests by Ronald Limbaugh (Editor's note: Ronald Limbaugh retired in 2000 after thirty-four years at the University of the Pacific, serving concurrently as director of the John Muir Center for Regional Studies and Rockwell Hunt Professor of California History) ven without considering his published works, John Muir's surviving journals and private correspondence demonstrate that he was a voluminous writer with unusual gifts. With his family and friends— and with himself— he carried on an effusive dialog, describing events, recalling anecdotes, lecturing and philosophizing, opening a …

Ms. Joanna Boley-Lee On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman Lee

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Interviewer: Maureen Elgersman Lee.

Interviewee: Ms. Joanna Boley-Lee (age 66; born 1937 in Newark, New Jersey; lived in Maine for 8 ½ years)

“I think my closing reflections would be that when I came to Lewiston I remember walking across the bridge that goes across the Androscoggin, the extension of Main Street, just sort of looking out, and there was a black man with a camera and I thought, good, there's a black person. So I went up to him and I introduced myself, told him I was new in the area and he tells me he was visiting. I …

The John Muir Newsletter, Summer 2003, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

JOHIMUI Newsletter UNlVfeRSnYOFTffi Volume 13, Number 3 Summer 2003; The Tramps by Edmund Herlihy, Mission Viejo, CA (Editor :s note: Edmund Herlihy is an Environmental Studies major at the University of the Pacific. This paper was prepared in the fall of 2002 for an undergraduate course, "John Muir and the Environment") 7magine a vast expanse of raw untamed land where a man might make a fortune as quickly as he might be scalped — the American West during the late 1800's was the frontier where one could pack up and start a whole new life west of the great Mississippi. …

Mrs. Rose Jackson On Employment, Hamida Suja

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Mrs. Rose Jackson Full Interview

Rose Jackson was born in Louisville, Mississippi, to Willie O Clayton Hathorne and Bertha Ophelia (Young) Hathorne; she had three sisters and three brothers. She left school at fifteen to marry her first husband, with whom she had five children; after his death, she married John Jackson, with whom she had another daughter. She worked as a cleaner and hairdresser, and received her diploma from Portland High night school. At the time of this interview, she had been living in Maine 40 years; her family moved here because she had a brother-in-law who had been …

Reverend Albert Jackson And Mrs. Clemmie Jackson On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman Lee

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Interviewer: Maureen Elgersman Lee

Interviewees: Reverend Albert Jackson (born in Slabfork, Virginia; age 61; lived in Maine for 43 years) and Mrs. Clemmie Jackson (born March 1948 in Marengo County, Alabama; age 55; lived in Maine for 3.5 years)

“Well I like it. You know, I describe it as, ah, a place where you can shop. I notice when it rain, a lot of people go out to eat. They like to eat here in Maine. And I've noticed -- I've (inaudible) –but this is a good area to live in.”

Interviewer: “Are there any events in Lewiston and Auburn's …

Reverend Albert Jackson And Mrs. Clemmie Jackson On Employment, Maureen Elgersman-Lee

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Reverend Albert Jackson and Mrs. Clemmie Jackson Full Interview

(Clemmie not pictured)

Rev. Albert Jackson was born in Slabfork, West Virginia, in 1942. At the time of this interview, he had been living in the Lewiston Auburn area for around forty three years. Clemmie Jackson, Rev. Jackson’s wife, was born in Marengo County, Alabama, in 1948; at the time of this interview, she had been living in Lewiston Auburn for around three years. The couple had three sons. Rev. Jackson graduated from high school in Lewiston Auburn; Mrs. Jackson graduated high school in Alabama, and received a degree in …

Reverend Albert Jackson And Mrs. Clemmie Jackson On Education, Maureen Elgersman-Lee

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Reverend Albert Jackson and Mrs. Clemmie Jackson Full Interview

Rev. Albert Jackson was born in Slabfork, West Virginia, in 1942. At the time of this interview, he had been living in the Lewiston Auburn area for around forty three years. Clemmie Jackson, Rev. Jackson’s wife, was born in Marengo County, Alabama, in 1948; at the time of this interview, she had been living in Lewiston Auburn for around three years. The couple had three sons. Rev. Jackson graduated from high school in Lewiston Auburn; Mrs. Jackson graduated high school in Alabama, and received a degree in sociology with a minor …

Mr. James Sheppard On Leisure, Sanela Zukic

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Interviewer: Sanela Zukic

Interviewee: Mr. James Sheppard (born in New York City in 1924; both his parents immigrated from Antigua in the West Indies to Canada, then they came to the United States in 1923; moved to Maine in 1971).

“But in addition to that we'd have lots of summer events: picnics and that sort. But that's separate; that's a different thing.”

“Between my wife and I, we saw to it that they did a lot of reading. And we did a lot of traveling. We did a lot of traveling to the Caribbean and South America, and we took …

Emma Jackson On Employment, Maureen Elgersman-Lee

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Emma Jackson Full Interview

Emma Jackson was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1941. She and her husband John Isaac Jackson had three children, and at the time of the interview she had been living in the Lewiston-Auburn area for forty five years. She spent the first ten years of her life in Maine doing domestic work, and then worked in the nursing field for thirty years, at a number of different facilities owned by Central Maine Medical Center. She discusses her life in Lewiston, challenges in finding housing she and her husband faced when they first moved to the area, …

The John Muir Newsletter, Spring 2003, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

E JOHM MUI Volume 13, Number 2 Newsletter oYofthe Pacific. Stockton* CA Spring 2003 John Mum a t Big Basin: Some Unrecognized Chronology in the Early Preservation of California's Coastal Redwoods by Howard R. Cooley, San Jose, CA " The battle we have fought, and are still fighting . . . is part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it. " The National Parks and Forest Reservations, Sierra Club Bulletin, January 1896 Shasta.' It was perhaps during his stay in San Francisco that he made one of his visits …

Southern Register. 2003.2 (Spring/Summer 2003), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture.

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Mlgpa News (Spring 2003), Maggie Allen

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

Bern Porter International: Volume 7 Number 2 (February 2003), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring "Why I Wrong" by Joel Dailey and "Barn Full of Air" by Daniel Russell.

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Bern Porter International: Volume 7 Number 1 (January 2003), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring poems by Anna Carroll and David Stone.

[Introduction To] Growing Up In The South: An Anthology Of Modern Southern Literature, Suzanne W. Jones

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Something about the South has inspired the imaginations of an extraordinary number of America’s best storytellers—and greatest writers. That quality may be a rich, unequivocal sense of place, a living connection with the past, or the contradictions and passions that endow this region with awesome beauty and equally awesome tragedy. The stories in this superb collection of modern Southern writing are about childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood—in other words, about growing up in the South. Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” set in a South that remains segregated even after segregation is declared illegal, is the story of a …

[Introduction To] In The Presence Of Mine Enemies: Civil War In The Heart Of America, 1859-1863, Edward L. Ayers

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Winner of the Bancroft Prize: Through a gripping narrative based on massive new research, a leading historian reshapes our understanding of the Civil War.

Our standard Civil War histories tell a reassuring story of the triumph, in an inevitable conflict, of the dynamic, free-labor North over the traditional, slave-based South, vindicating the freedom principles built into the nation's foundations.

But at the time, on the borderlands of Pennsylvania and Virginia, no one expected war, and no one knew how it would turn out. The one certainty was that any war between the states would be fought in their fields and …

Mlgpa News (Winter 2003), Maggie Allen

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

Southern Register. 2003.1 (Winter 2003), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture.

Southern Register

No abstract provided.