Keeping the Faith
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
Publication Year: 2011
 
 
Published by: The University of Alabama Press
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3. Discoveries and Awakenings
Howard College in 1958 was a lot like me. Everything was new and exciting, and it seemed a time of limitless possibilities. After more than a half century in East Lake (where my grandfather had been a student), with inadequate and rapidly declining facilities...

6. “Sweet Auburn, Loveliest Village of the Plain”
Three years of stress had left my nerves jangled, my body exhausted, my spirit depressed. In December 1983, nine months after it all ended, I wrote former Samford student Carolyn Johnston: “After the epic, Wagnerian battles of the Funderburk...

7. “Where My Possessions Lie”: Writing about Ordinary People
Nancy Nolan, her husband, and their three sons lived in Dale County early in the twentieth century. Like most Alabama farmers of both races, they tenant- farmed someone else’s land. Nolan’s husband died when their oldest son...

9. “The Lord Is the Maker of Them All”: Black, White, and Poor in America
In the kingdom of God, either everyone is ordinary in the beginning or everyone is special, depending on how you look at it. After that, what we make of ourselves is pretty much up to us. But some people must cross higher hurdles...

11. Principalities and Powers: Battling for a New Constitution and a New Politics
Alabama politics is a mess, an embarrassment to ethical men and women who run for office, a disgrace to the state’s people, a hog- trough of corruption where it seems that holding public office is an apprenticeship for the state...

12. In the Eye of the Storm: Auburn University, 1989–2000
Living in Alabama even for a brief time leaves impressions, sometimes good, other times not so good. One of my favorite novelists, Ralph Ellison, spent only a few years at Tuskegee University. But the Tuskegee machine’s accommodations...

13. “Ever to Conquer, Never to Yield”: Inside the Auburn Tigers, 1977–2005
Two stories capture the contradictions of football in Alabama, both what is conquered and what is yielded. Following the intersectional game between Auburn and Syracuse in October 2002, Bud Poliquin, sportswriter for the...

14. Valhalla on the Plains
In Norse mythology, Valhalla was the great hall where the god Odin received the souls of fallen heroes who had died bravely in battle. There he treated those with torn and wounded bodies to feasts and respect. By the time Bobby Lowder and his cronies had finished...
E-ISBN-13: 9780817385965
Print-ISBN-13: 9780817317546
Page Count: 400
Publication Year: 2011
Edition: 1
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