Summary: The story of the musical Carter and Cash families, the dynasty at the heart of country music. Starting with the Original Carter Family, A.P., Sara, and Maybelle, this film traces the flow of their influence through generations of musicians, the transformation of that act into the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle, the marriage of Johnny Cash and June Carter, and the efforts of the present-day...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WINCarter, Stephen L.
Summary: "She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in the New York of the 1930s--and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, would never have been convicted. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected twenty lawyers to help him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CARTER CARCarter, Jimmy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CARCurry, Constance
Summary: In 1965 the Carter family sent seven of their children to integrate the schools of Sunflower County, Mississippi, where the school board offered a "freedom of choice" policy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.247 CURCarter, Jimmy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CARTER, Jimmy CARCarter, Jimmy
Summary: President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the underdog always, even when her son was president. A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, Peace Corps volunteer, public speaker, and renowned raconteur, Miss Lillian ignored the mores and prejudices of the racially segregated South of the Great Depression years. She was an avid supporter...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.926 CARCarter, Jimmy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CARCash, John Carter.
Summary: Presents a life of the country music musician and songwriter, from her childhood performances as part of the Carter family singers to her relationship and marriage to Johnny Cash.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CASH, JUNE CARTER CASCash, Johnny.
Summary: Accompanying DVD includes the original 1969 documentary produced by Granada TV in the U.K., chronicling Cash's concert at San Quentin, and includes concert footage, a performance of A boy named Sue, and interviews with guards and inmates talking about their experiences behind bars.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CASContents: Soldier's joy / Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers (2:55) -- Jordan is a hard road to travel / Uncle Dave Macon and his Fruit Jar Drinkers (3:06) -- Barbara Allen / Bradley Kincaid (3:20) -- The prisoner's song / Vernon Dalhart (3:03) -- Wildwood flower / Carter Family (3:08) -- Waiting for a train (2:43) ; Blue yodel no. 8 (2:59) / Jimmie Rodgers -- Ragged but right / Riley Puckett (2:54) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Collection of Recordings 1990
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CLASummary: The big bang: At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the unsung voices of everyday folk. Blood and soil: America's poor--cotton field slaves, mine workers, sharecroppers--find freedom through music, creating gospel, protest songs, and Delta blues. Out of the many, the one: Exotic cultures spanning...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMEContents: I saw the light (Hank Williams) -- Preachin', prayin', singin' (Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys) -- Lonesome valley (Kitty Wells) -- The family who prays (Louvin Brothers) -- God gave Noah the rainbow sign (Carter Family) -- Great speckle bird (Roy Acuff & his Crazy Tennesseans) -- Life's railway to heaven (Patsy Cline) -- Bugle call from Heaven (Webb Pierce) -- Satisfied...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS JUBDry Branch Fire Squad.
Contents: Disc 1: Rollin' on rubber wheels -- Cas wallin, world's greatest ballad singer -- Orphan child -- Banjo pickin' vs. modern country music -- Roanoke -- Massachusetts epithets/War has always been hell -- He's coming to us dead -- The metaphorical and John Duffey -- Miner's refrain -- The Carter family -- Fifty miles of elbow room -- The politics of folk music -- The orphan train -- Grandma's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY DRYKatz, Anne (Anne Jennifer)
Summary: "Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love is for the women and men who love and support a man with prostate cancer. Each chapter tells the story of a man and his partner dealing with this cancer, from diagnosis through survivorship. Fully updated and comprehensive, this book educates and informs partners on the latest studies and findings"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 KATJohnson, Varian
Summary: Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JOHSummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008