Flyover lives
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Diane Johnson
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780142181249
Subjects: American Novelists; Families; Family; Social life and customs; Pioneers; Home; Manners and customs; Biography
Description: Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the world--and did. Now having travelled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she is stung when a French friend teases her about Americans' indifference to history.
Table of contents: title: I. In France; title: A Weekend with the General; title: II. Flyover Country; title: Moline, pop. 34,000; title: My Moline; title: Myopia; title: Pastimes; title: Economies; title: Books; title: III. Eighteenth-Century Beginnings; title: How We All Descend from Greatness; title: Ranna; title: Anne and God; title: Huts; title: 1800; title: John Perkins Too Sees God; title: Some Stories from the Life of Catharine Perkins; title: The Story of Catharine Continued; title: The Inappropriate Letter; title: Catharine's Romance; title: The Affair of the Locket; title: Rascals; title: The Elusive Eleazer; title: Wedding Journey; title: Bloomingburg; title: Women's Work : Quilts; title: Eleazer the Doctor; title: Sorrow; title: Depression; title: Wars; title: IV. Modern Days; title: Watseka, Chenoa; title: Rich in Uncles; title: Summer; title: In God We Trusted ...; title: The Dark Shadow; title: Flyover; title: Mademoiselle; title: California; title: Writer; title: Silver Screen; title: Uncle Bill; title: Divorce; title: London; title: Emancipation Proclamation; title: Defeat; title: Yellow Morgan; title: Chagrin; title: Epilogue.