Who said DeSoto found the Fountain of Youth in Arkansas in the 1540's. Feet of clay? Who has feet of clay? The Banty Rooster employee surprise. Junius Sneed and the Summer of Love. What is a morion? Who decapitated the criminals? What happened to Detective Sneed?

On January 14, 1968, 51-year-old Buford Lolley was brutally murdered in Enteprise, Alabama. It took nearly nine years to arrest a suspect, who was later acquitted of the murder charges. After more than a half-century, the Lolley murder remains a stone cold case. This book represents an opportunity to reexamine this terrible, unsolved crime and its aftermath under an objective light. Both the murder victim and David Hutto, the man who was almost certainly falsely accused of murder, deserve the opportunity to have their stories told. At the same time, the author remembers a simpler and more innocent time which was ultimately disrupted by evil.

Volunteer Bama Dawg collects 60+ of Chattanooga broadcaster David Carroll's most popular essays, combining humor, history, and tributes to some unforgettable characters.

How did political power function in the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of the 1980s, their rejection of state socialism and its authoritarian world. The authors refer to the concept of Sinnwelt, the way in which groups and individuals made sense of the world around them. The essays focus on the dynamics of everyday life and the extent to which the relationship between citizens and the state was collaborative or antagonistic. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of life in this period, including modernization, consumption and leisure, and the everyday experiences of “ordinary people,” single mothers, or those adopting alternative lifestyles. Empirically rich and conceptually original, the essays in this volume suggest new ways to understand how people make sense of everyday life under dictatorial regimes.

Inspiring and insightful, Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World celebrates the shared principles that unite and enable us to overcome life’s challenges together. “When the waters rise, so do our better angels.”—President Jimmy Carter Jonathan Reckford, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity, has seen time and again the powerful benefits that arise when people from all walks of life work together to help one another. In this uplifting book, he shares true stories of people involved with Habitat as volunteers and future homeowners who embody seven timeless virtues—kindness, community, empowerment, joy, respect, generosity, and service—and shows how we can all practice these to improve the quality of our own lives as well as those around us. A Vietnam veteran finds peace where he was once engaged in war. An impoverished single mother offers her family’s time and energy to enrich their neighbors’ lives. A Zambian family of nine living in a makeshift tent makes room to shelter even more. A teenager grieving for his mother honors her love and memory by ensuring other people have a place to call home. A former president of the United States leads by example with a determined work ethic that motivates everyone around him to be the best version of themselves. These stories, and many others, illustrate how virtues become values, how cooperation becomes connection, and how even the smallest act of compassion can encourage actions that transform the world around us. Here are tales that will make readers laugh and cry and embrace with passion the calling of our better angels to change the way we take care of ourselves, our families, our communities, and the world.