The Perils of Pearl Bryan

The Perils of Pearl Bryan
Title The Perils of Pearl Bryan PDF eBook
Author James McDonald
Publisher AuthorHouse
Pages 248
Release 2012-01-27
Genre True Crime
ISBN 1463444427

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Amidst the turbulence and gaiety existing in American society during the last decade of the 20th century, the paths of two young men and a young woman merge. Each is inexorably drawn to a midnight rendezvous on a lonely road in northern Kentucky, and ghastly and fatal consequences result.

Hear My Sad Story

Hear My Sad Story
Title Hear My Sad Story PDF eBook
Author Richard Polenberg
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 304
Release 2015-12-07
Genre Music
ISBN 1501701487

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In 2015, Bob Dylan said, "I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them, back when nobody was doing it. Sang nothing but these folk songs, and they gave me the code for everything that's fair game, that everything belongs to everyone." In Hear My Sad Story, Richard Polenberg describes the historical events that led to the writing of many famous American folk songs that served as touchstones for generations of American musicians, lyricists, and folklorists. Those events, which took place from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, often involved tragic occurrences: murders, sometimes resulting from love affairs gone wrong; desperate acts borne out of poverty and unbearable working conditions; and calamities such as railroad crashes, shipwrecks, and natural disasters. All of Polenberg’s account of the songs in the book are grounded in historical fact and illuminate the social history of the times. Reading these tales of sorrow, misfortune, and regret puts us in touch with the dark but terribly familiar side of American history. On Christmas 1895 in St. Louis, an African American man named Lee Shelton, whose nickname was "Stack Lee," shot and killed William Lyons in a dispute over seventy-five cents and a hat. Shelton was sent to prison until 1911, committed another murder upon his release, and died in a prison hospital in 1912. Even during his lifetime, songs were being written about Shelton, and eventually 450 versions of his story would be recorded. As the song—you may know Shelton as Stagolee or Stagger Lee—was shared and adapted, the emotions of the time were preserved, but the fact that the songs described real people, real lives, often fell by the wayside. Polenberg returns us to the men and women who, in song, became legends. The lyrics serve as valuable historical sources, providing important information about what had happened, why, and what it all meant. More important, they reflect the character of American life and the pathos elicited by the musical memory of these common and troubled lives.

Crimes of the Centuries

Crimes of the Centuries
Title Crimes of the Centuries PDF eBook
Author Amber Hunt
Publisher Union Square & Co.
Pages 340
Release 2024-01-16
Genre True Crime
ISBN 1454949112

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A fascinating pop-history dive into the stories behind the incredibly impactful crimes—both infamous and little-known—that have shaped the legal system as we know it. When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it’s no hotter than it’s always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in the seventeenth century. And these cases over the centuries have fundamentally changed our society and shifted our legal system, resulting in the laws we have today and setting the stage for new rights and protections. From the first recorded murder trial led by the first legal dream team, to one of the earliest uses of DNA, these cases will fascinate.

Bizarre Bluegrass

Bizarre Bluegrass
Title Bizarre Bluegrass PDF eBook
Author Keven McQueen
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 128
Release 2020-08-17
Genre History
ISBN 1439670838

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From ghost towns to circus performers to mass hysteria, the Bluegrass State is no stranger to the strange. Read stories of famed President Abraham Lincoln you've never heard before. Find possible solutions to the mystery of Pearl Bryan's missing head and decipher the outrageous hoaxes involving an unsolvable puzzle and monkeys trained to perform farm work. Learn about the time when the author wrote to Charles Manson as a joke and Manson wrote back--four times. Join author Keven McQueen as he recounts some of the weirder vignettes from Kentucky lore.

The Perils of Pearl Bryan

The Perils of Pearl Bryan
Title The Perils of Pearl Bryan PDF eBook
Author James Mcdonald
Publisher AuthorHouse
Pages 248
Release 2012
Genre Trials (Murder)
ISBN 1463444443

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Amidst the turbulence and gaiety existing in American society during the last decade of the 20th century, the paths of two young men and a young woman merge. Each is inexorably drawn to a midnight rendezvous on a lonely road in northern Kentucky, and ghastly and fatal consequences result.

Crime Fiction, 1749-1980

Crime Fiction, 1749-1980
Title Crime Fiction, 1749-1980 PDF eBook
Author Allen J. Hubin
Publisher New York : Garland Pub.
Pages 744
Release 1984
Genre Reference
ISBN

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Ghosts Across Kentucky

Ghosts Across Kentucky
Title Ghosts Across Kentucky PDF eBook
Author William Montell
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 286
Release 2000-08-24
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 9780813190075

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A collection of ghostly tales from across the Commonwealth of Kentucky.