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The story of four generations of the Lindsay family in Guilford
County, NC 1765 to 1870 and the location on Deep River that is the
cockpit of activity from settlement to Regulation to Revolution.
The family progresses from a multi-faceted agricultural center to
merchant house, to entrepreneur to industrialist but in one branch
is destroyed by the Civil War in terms of a single life of promises
devastated. This is the story of a family and a location in North
Carolina that connected with important moments and personalities in
antebellum North Carolina. histor
The novel is set in 1968 when the small southern town of Cascade
decides to put on a Sesquicentennial. They hire a mid-western
company that organizes such events and the company sends in Devon
Poole, a young man who seems enigmatic to the locals. The tragic
sequence of national events in 1968 are unleashed in juxtaposition
to the Sesquicentennial preparations. Locals do not know that their
economic and social fabric is beginning to unravel as they
celebrate 150 years. They also do not know that Devon may have an
involvement with those national events over which they have no
control. It is mystery fiction.
In 1891, retired Union General Theophilus Francis Rodenbough
published a genealogy about his extended family which he called
"Autumn Leaves From Family Trees." About six generations have
passed and the access to broader ranges of research, particularly
using the computer, have made possible this update of the General's
work For the author it has been the accumulated work of about 60
years. He has expanded the sources and has investigated families
who, particularly at the time of emigration, were associated with
the Rodenbach/Rodenbough family. This expands the story to a study
of a particular category of German immigration to America and its
roots in Europe. The Rodenbach/Rodenbough family is covered in 4
generations in Germany and 10 in America. Eleven allied families
including: Rockefeller, Hockenberry, Brown, Shatwell, Teel, Letsch,
Cline, Silverthorne, Major, Okeson, and Albertson are covered in
multiple generations and there are 20 Genealogical charts, mostly
German in origin and over 55 illustrations.
Although this is an historical novel, it is based on a factual
family and branches of that family with different racial
identities. Since this is such a well known family in the South and
it had a record of racial mixing during slavery and a shared
concern for the Union and racial justice, there are mixed venues in
which to examine particular racial attitudes within the family. I
have used dialogue to interpret what might have been the
discussions within the family but have added Editor's Notes in
order to distinguish facts and a Bibliography to identify my
sources. There is also a Teaching Supplement available to use in
schools or as home study, of interpretive racial history. This
method is particularly designed to assist African American children
to use the interpretation of history within this family for
understanding Justice and to gain greater self awareness and
identity. This book is part of the Sauratown Project-Understanding
the Flow of Ancestry.
This is an interactive study plan presented in five books using a
common format for teaching in schools, homes, and churches. The
Bible, the Koran or other faith texts, give a foundation for the
understanding of a particular people, thus giving believers roots
upon which to build their own images in continuity with their past.
This study can demonstrate for African Americans, the flow of their
ancestry as a historical continuum. Where genealogical study may
find a research roadblock with the last slave ancestor, African
Americans find in the flow of their story, the same kind of harmony
that the slaves found in the richness of the Old Testament. The
value of such an inclusive understanding of the progress of a
people of faith, is not limited to African Americans but can be an
instrument of educational understanding for any student.
In his obituary in 1899, the New York Times called Samual
Worthington Dewey "one of the most picturesque characters in
American history." For most of his life, Dewey was referred to in
public as a sea captain, but his 92 years were much more eclectic.
He collected knowledge and was attracted by persons who shared his
acquisitive thirst for experience and learning. Based in the
true-life experiences of Samuel W. Dewey, Stealing Andrew Jackson's
Head is a fictionalized account of those events, as told by Dewey
to eleven-year-old Jake Cooper.
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