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Mary Stone and Ida Kahn were the first female Chinese doctors
educated in Western medicine. Both women changed China forever.
This story shares their lifelong contributions to the China of
their day, and how patient by patient they ended ancient traditions
by producing positive results. Binding feet fell from fashion,
surgery became the best solution for tumors, and female medical
education saved many lives. Both physicians were born in Kiukiang,
now called Jiujiang, one of many pearls along the sometimes
over-flowing Yangtze River. Both were "entrusted" to missionaries.
Both children had something about them their parents saw as
mystical. We all became blessed because they took a course of
unprecedented action, covering more than half the globe, and spoke
to a simple way of facing impossible odds to make a difference.
This rollicking ride through a single day in the ill-fated village
of San Marcos will leave you reeling with laughter, even as you
cringe at the misadventures of the hapless Porter Clapp and his
pitiable wife, Steph; the jaundiced OnĂŠsimo Moro and his
ever-watchful spouse, Isabel; and the rest of Crawfordâs riotous
cast. At this storyâs beginning, a meeting notice from the state
water agency, posted at the local store, seems to portend an
imminent threat to the valleyâs precious acequias. But perhaps
more ominousâat least to the paranoid Clappâis the possibility
of the outside world meddling with the isolation, blissful or not,
of this remote Hispanic plaza town. As the time of the meeting
looms, we follow the characters through the day and become immersed
in a place unnervingly familiar to anyone who has lived in Northern
New Mexico. Crawford spares no one from his acerbic wit and
skewering prose, yet there remains an unmistakable affection for
the marvelously dysfunctional community and the very faults that he
so eloquently parodies. As the tale unfolds, we dread the incipient
threat from outside the valley less and begin to hope that
something will deflect the downward spiral every character seems
doomed to followâbut nothing anticipates or prepares us for the
denouement that Crawford skillfully delivers, leaving us punch
drunk with mirth.
The compelling personal story at the heart of the Netflix
documentary, "Garlic Breath." Readers who care about preserving
local businesses will appreciate this new book by writer and garlic
farm owner Stanley Crawford. In the fall of 2014, Crawford
questioned US tariff exemptions for the countryâs largest
importer of Chinese garlic. This set off a massive legal battle,
pitting his small New Mexico farm against the importer and its
international law firms. In this compelling account of his
David-and-Goliath battle, now in its fifth year, Crawford describes
his personal and farming life under a cloud of lawsuits and
administrative skirmishes. The unusual case was of such interest
that it became the subject of a Netflix documentary, âGarlic
Breath,â in the six-part series Rotten, released in 2018.
Mary Stone and Ida Kahn were the first female Chinese doctors
educated in Western medicine. Both women changed China forever.
This story shares their lifelong contributions to the China of
their day, and how patient by patient they ended ancient traditions
by producing positive results. Binding feet fell from fashion,
surgery became the best solution for tumors, and female medical
education saved many lives. Both physicians were born in Kiukiang,
now called Jiujiang, one of many pearls along the sometimes
over-flowing Yangtze River. Both were entrusted to missionaries.
Both children had something about them their parents saw as
mystical. We all became blessed because they took a course of
unprecedented action, covering more than half the globe, and spoke
to a simple way of facing impossible odds to make a difference."
After discussing the importance of leadership, Dr. Crawford
presents the three key strategies for building instructional
capacity. Leadership: Leadership is important to the success of any
endeavor in public education. Increase Applied Personnel Knowledge,
Skills, and Abilities: Possessing knowledge, skill and ability are
only the beginning to an increase in student learning and student
achievement. The application piece must be nurtured. Improve the
Curriculum Program and Supporting Aspects: Parts of the curriculum
program should be given special attention by school and district
leadership. Provide the Basic Medical, Social, and Emotional
Support for Students: Students should be given the best opportunity
to succeed in public education. When this occurs, it will benefit
society as a whole.
The Story of Lushan is beautiful and reaches from the clouds to the
rivers far below. Lushan Mountain has always been a resting place,
inviting meditation, insight-fulness, and art. Life on Lushan
Mountain has touched many hearts, and inspired greatness from the
masters of all centuries. If more than 5000 years of mystical
history inspire you to visit Lushan, when you arrive amongst the
clouds, you will know you have arrived in Heaven. Mystery and
romance still lives all over this mountain. Start your journey with
these pages, and imagine living in a timeless country where your
ancestry reaches back to the beginning of time. If you are a poet,
artist, photographer, or just in love with possibility, Lushan will
bless your dreams and imaginings. China is a journey.
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Wuhu Missionaries (Paperback)
Stanley Crawford; Contributions by Cathleen Crawford Green; Compiled by Stanley Crawford
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Dr. Edgerton H. Hart was born in China to missionary parents, was
educated in America and returned to China to head one of the
hospitals his father, Virgil Hart built in Wuhu, on the Yangtze
River. His medical skills were highly regarded by both the Chinese
and foreigners. From Caroline Harts' personal journal, At last my
preparation of years was rewarded, for I carried in my pocket a
half-read letter that appointed me to China. That early afternoon
in the spring of 1904 found me hurrying toward the operating rooms
of Chicago's huge Cook County Hospital, at that time said to be the
largest charity hospital in the world. A brief luncheon period and
a rush day in surgery had allowed only a glance at the letter, but
it was my uppermost thought as I scrubbed up, put on cap, mask and
gown and entered the room where an operation was already under way.
I moved silently to my station and after a few moments, the chief
surgeon, alert always to the personnel and efficiency of his
assistants, looked up. He said teasingly, "So the little red-headed
missionary is here to help, looking for the entire world as if she
had seen a vision. Just when and where are you going?"
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Wuhu Missionaries (Hardcover)
Caroline Maddock Hart, Cathleen Crawford Green, Stanley Crawford
bundle available
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R654
R588
Discovery Miles 5 880
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Dr. Edgerton H. Hart was born in China to missionary parents, was
educated in America and returned to China to head one of the
hospitals his father, Virgil Hart built in Wuhu, on the Yangtze
River. His medical skills were highly regarded by both the Chinese
and foreigners. From Caroline Harts' personal journal, At last my
preparation of years was rewarded, for I carried in my pocket a
half-read letter that appointed me to China. That early afternoon
in the spring of 1904 found me hurrying toward the operating rooms
of Chicago's huge Cook County Hospital, at that time said to be the
largest charity hospital in the world. A brief luncheon period and
a rush day in surgery had allowed only a glance at the letter, but
it was my uppermost thought as I scrubbed up, put on cap, mask and
gown and entered the room where an operation was already under way.
I moved silently to my station and after a few moments, the chief
surgeon, alert always to the personnel and efficiency of his
assistants, looked up. He said teasingly, "So the little red-headed
missionary is here to help, looking for the entire world as if she
had seen a vision. Just when and where are you going?"
Fiction. Originally published in 1967, TRAVEL NOTES is a
hallucinogenic dream journey thru the incomparable mind that
subsequently brought us Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine, then
dropped off the grid to become a garlic farmer in New Mexico.
TRAVEL NOTES could indeed read like Stanley Crawford's private
travelogue, yet no real-world places or people are explicitly
mentioned. Instead we're taken on a rompish tromp thru wild and
often absurd landscapes--in a bus that gets dismantled &
reassembled to get around a broken-down car, in a biplane that only
flies in the mind of the naked pilot, or on the back of a white
elephant named Unable with untranslatable obscenities tattooed to
his underbelly--the traveller ever self-aware of the nagging
fragility of routine customs, ever on the verge of having the magic
carpet pulled out from beneath your feet if you stop to think. This
mind-jarring comedy of errors shares campy common ground with
Brautigan in its carefree wackiness, with Robbe-Grillet in its
disciplined lunacy and obsessive- compulsive attention to detail,
with Marquez in its magical realism (though Crawford, in exile on
Crete, was at the time unaware of One Hundred Years of Solitude,
published in the same year) and with a healthy dose of subversive
angst thrown in for good measure. By the end, TRAVEL NOTES becomes
a boot-strapping map to your own brain, projecting
psychotherapeutic color on the otherwise gray matter of real-world
events.
Cinquains: Volume I, is a children's book of poems. The poems are
accompanied by illustrations that engage students in the learning
process. This book has been prepared with two purposes in mind.
First, the book provides a source of enjoyment for the reader. This
is accomplished by using the cinquain poem format for communicating
about various topics. There are various forms of cinquain poems. I
have stuck fairly close to the Adelaide Crapsey process of writing
cinquains. This is mainly in the use of the syllable count. Second,
to provide an additional resource for anyone involved in the
process of engaging learners. Whether the learners are in public
education, private education, or business the engagement of the
learner is a significant key to learner success in the learning
process.
Irrigation ditches are the lifelines of agriculture and daily life
in rural New Mexico. This award-winning account of the authors
experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of
the life of an acequia by a community participant.
Scotty's family owns a lodge near their silver mine in the Colorado
Rockies. Summers at the lodge are idyllic for Scotty and his cousin
Mickey. The grown-ups are dealing with the complications of
business and adult dysfunction, but the boys are more interested in
the complications of puberty, especially when Rosalind, the teenage
daughter of family friends, is on hand. To read this quiet, rich
evocation of adolescent watchfulness is to experience what it is
like to be fourteen years old, waiting for something to happen,
aware of everything but oblivious to as much of it as possible.
Readers will be reminded of such modern masters as William Maxwell
and John Updike.
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