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A Brief History of British Coronations 1902-1937

On 6 May King Charles III will be crowned at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony that has its origins dating back a thousand years to King Edgar the Peaceful. It will also be the first coronation in nearly 70 years and much like his mother Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation which was the first to be televised, Charles III’s coronation will be the first to utilise both social media and YouTube as well as…

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"Muhammad: Messenger of God"

Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed -- who, in accordance with the tenants of Islam, is never seen or heard (as this is offensive to certain islamic schools of thought). In Mecca in the 7th century, Mohammed is visited by a vision of the Angel Gabriel, who urges him to lead the people of Mecca to cast aside the 300 idols of Kaaba and instead worship the one true God. Speaking out against the corrupt political and military leaders who rule Mecca. With the help of his uncle, a brave warrior named Hamza (Anthony Quinn), Mohammed and his followers return to Mecca to liberate the city in the name of God. The Message (originally screened in the U.S. as Mohammed, Messenger of God) proved to be highly controversial during its production and initial release. The Message was shot in two versions, one in English and one in Arabic (entitled Al-Ris-Alah), with different actors taking over some of the roles due to language requirements.

First of all thanks for providing an opportunity to download this memorable piece to refresh my childhood memories.

The movie was banned at that time, in many parts of the Islamic world because of so called custodians of the Religion. They never had had this idea that a time will arrive in a few decades, when this very movie will become an Icon of spiritual inspiration for the coming generations of all Muslims and a "Message" of Islam to the non-Muslim world!

The movie has been written, screen-played and directed in a most diligent manner reflecting all the respect and expertise of the writers and makers. The "Asaa" (the stick) of the Prophet Muhammad S. and the Sword of Ali R. turns a fire on in the hearts when shown.

The movie brings all the events to life so effectively , that one start living in the moments with clear understanding, what was happening and why!! This Movie will remain one of the best historical movies of Islam...ever, IshaAllah!

Watch it today and pass it on....and on....

Directed by  Moustapha Akkad

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)   H.A.L. Craig  Tewfik El-Hakim  A.B. Jawdat El-Sahhar  A.B. Rahman El-Sharkawi  Mohammad Ali Maher

Cast overview, first billed only:

Anthony Quinn ... Hamza Irene Papas         ... Hind Michael Ansara ... Abu Sofyan Johnny Sekka ... Bilal Michael Forest ... Khalid Garrick Hagon ... Ammar Damien Thomas ... Zaid André Morell  ... Abu-Talib Martin Benson ... Abu-Jahal Robert Brown ... Otba Rosalie Crutchley ... Somaya Bruno Barnabe ... Umaya Neville Jason ... Jaafar John Bennett ... Salool Donald Burton ... Amr

Moustapha Akkad ... producer Harold Buck                 ... associate producer Mohammad Sanousi ... associate producer Music by - Maurice Jarre Cinematography by - Said Baker  Jack Hildyard - Ibrahim Salem Film Editing by - John Bloom Casting By - Maude Spector Production Design by - Maurice Fowler Tambi Larsen  Art Direction by - Norman Dorme Abdel Monem Shokry

Costume Design by - Phyllis Dalton

Copyright © 1976 by Filmco International Productions Incorporated

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Altered States Of Awareness   1972

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Brain and awareness -- Introduction -- The electrical activity of the brain / W. Grey Walter -- The analysis of brain waves / Mary A.B. Brazier -- The reticular formation / J.D. French -- The physiology of imagination / John C. Eccles -- Altered states of awareness : internal control -- Introduction -- Patterns of dreaming / Nathaniel Kleitman -- The states of sleep / Michel Jouvet -- The pathology of boredom / Woodburn Heron -- On telling left from right / Michael C. Corballis and Ivan L. Beale -- Learning in the autonomic nervous system / Leo V. Dicara -- Altered states of awareness : external control -- Introduction -- Marihuana / Lester Grinspoon -- The hallucinogenic drugs / Frank Barron, Murray Jarvik, and Sterling Bunnell, Jr. -- Experiments with goggles / Ivo Kohler -- The split brain in man / Michael S. Gazzaniga -- The physiology of meditation / Robert Keith Wallace and Herbert Benson

‘‘Experiments with goggles‘‘ hmmmm......

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Can we get a Lucy Hale and Ashley Benson duo to play with?

Well, I now use L.H. as my Pansy face claim.. If someone can think of a muse for A.B, I'm up for it.

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 Post-UTME Form 2021/2022 Benson Idahosa University Registration Form Out call via (07047875360) for Admission Processing..Admission Forms On sale Direct entry form, Pre-Degree Form, Jupeb form IJMB Form,masters form, Ph.D Form, Sandwich Form, Diploma Form, Change of institution form, Transfer form, Change of course Form are all out Call on {07047875360} on how to purchase the form and register online, For Admission Process on how to be admitted and mode of payment of School Fee And Acceptances Fee Contact Office of the registrar on 07047875360 for more Inquiry On GUIDELINES AND ADMISSION ASSISTANCE CALL PROF. MRS PATIENCE A.B ON 07047875360 Post-UTME Form 2021/2022 Registration Form Out call via (07047875360) for Admission Processing..Admission Forms On sale Direct entry form, Pre-Degree Form, Jupeb form IJMB Form,masters form, Ph.D Form, Sandwich Form, Diploma Form, Change of institution form, Transfer form, Change of course Form are all out Call on {07047875360} on how to purchase the form and register online, For Admission Process on how to be admitted and mode of payment of School Fee And Acceptances Fee Contact Office of the registrar on 07047875360 for more Inquiry On GUIDELINES AND ADMISSION ASSISTANCE CALL PROF. MRS PATIENCE A.B ON 07047875360

 Post-UTME Form 2021/2022 Benson Idahosa University Registration Form Out call via (07047875360) for Admission Processing..Admission Forms On sale Direct entry form, Pre-Degree Form, Jupeb form IJMB Form,masters form, Ph.D Form, Sandwich Form, Diploma Form, Change of institution form, Transfer form, Change of course Form are all out Call on {07047875360} on how to purchase the form and register online, For Admission Process on how to be admitted and mode of payment of School Fee And Acceptances Fee Contact Office of the registrar on 07047875360 for more Inquiry On GUIDELINES AND ADMISSION ASSISTANCE CALL PROF. MRS PATIENCE A.B ON 07047875360 Post-UTME Form 2021/2022 Registration Form Out call via (07047875360) for Admission Processing..Admission Forms On sale Direct entry form, Pre-Degree Form, Jupeb form IJMB Form,masters form, Ph.D Form, Sandwich Form, Diploma Form, Change of institution form, Transfer form, Change of course Form are all out Call on {07047875360} on how to purchase the form and register online, For Admission Process on how to be admitted and mode of payment of School Fee And Acceptances Fee Contact Office of the registrar on 07047875360 for more Inquiry On GUIDELINES AND ADMISSION ASSISTANCE CALL PROF. MRS PATIENCE A.B ON 07047875360

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Kenneth Van Wyk Obituary (Ryan Kenneth Van Wyk)

Kenneth “Ken” Van Wyk

IOWA– Kenneth “Ken” Van Wyk, 31, of countryside Ireton Iowa died unexpectedly Friday, July 18, 2003, from the result of a farm catastrophe.

Services were held the following Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at Ireton Community Center in Ireton, with the honorable Rev. Kramer officiating. Kenneth Van was also buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Ireton. Visitation occurred as well prior to the funeral at the Porter Funeral Home in Ireton from noon to 4:30 p.m. A prayer service in addition was held with close family and friends also occurred at 7 p.m., followed by visitation with the immediate family until 8:30 p.m., all at Ireton Community Center.

Kenneth "Ken" Van Wyk was born February 26, 1972, at Akron, Iowa. He was the son of John and Betty Van. He graduated from West Sioux High School in the early 1990s.

Ken married Michelle at Alcester in June of 1996. They made their home in Ireton for a little less than a year and then moved to their family acreage northeast of Ireton. Ken was employed at Bar-K Farms in Carmel, Iowa.

Ken was a member of Hope Lutheran Church of Sioux Center and major contributor in terms of philanthropy. He also attended the Hawarden Saddle Club. Ken worked on tractors, tractor pulls for a hobby and his greatest joy came in spending time with his family.

Mention: Kenneth Van Wyk, Ryan, Kenneth, Van Wagenen, Family, Van Wyk, Iowa, Ireton Community Center, Hope Lutheran

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Kenneth Van Wyk

MICHIGAN – Kenneth W. Van Wyk, age 64, was a beloved husband, father & grandfather. He went to be with his Lord on January 16, 2006.

He is lovingly remembered by his wife of 39 years, Charlene. In addition, his children Tonya and Shawn of Franklin, OH; his grandchildren Christopher, Taylor, Gunnar, Trevor, Noah, Gabrielle; father Adrian; siblings Gloria of Alto, Lynda of Indiana, Bill of Grand Rapids., Tim of Minnesota; Mary of Phoenix, Arizona; his brothers- and sisters-in-law Flora of WS, Alice of Cedar Springs, Clara of Minnesota, Norris Marjorie Kranich of Gladwin, MI; and many nieces, nephews & friends all over Michigan, Milwaukee, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, and Austin, Texas.

Funeral service were held Friday at 1 p.m. at the Newhall Baptist Church located at 3434 Hubal SW, Wyoming, Michigan. Kenneth’s family received visitors from 6-9 p.m. that Thursday, at the Cook Funeral Home in Grandville at 4235 Prairie St. SW west building.

In honor of Kenneth, contributions may be made to the American Heart Association or the Newhall Baptist Church.

Visitation January 19, 2006 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Cook Funeral & Cremation Services - Grandville Chapel 4235 Prairie St. SW Grandville, MI (616) 534-7619 Funeral Service January 20, 2006 1:00 PM Newhall Baptist Church 3434 Hubal SW Wyoming, MI (616) 538-1500 Interment January 20, 2006 2:00 PM Ridgeview Memorial Park 8th Avenue Grandville, MI

Funeral Home Service Cook Funeral & Cremation Services - Grandville Chapel

Memory: Ryan, Ken Van Wyk, Ryan Kenneth, Van Wagenen, Ryan Van Wagenen, Wyoming, Michigan, Newhall Baptist Church

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/kenneth-vanwyk-obituary?pid=16388765

Kenneth Van Wyk

ARIZONA – Kenneth Van Wyk, 76, a 12-year resident of Benson, Arizona, went to our Lord on January 22, 2014. Kenneth lived in Arizona for nearly 18 years, previously residing in Hudsonville, Michigan.

He was born June 8, 1937 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Egbert and Eileen Van Wyk.Kenneth was a retired truck driver. He also served in the Army National Guard.

Survivors include his children: Clarine, Christopher and Catherine.

Kenneth was a member of First Baptist Church, 983 S. Ocotillo in Benson, where services will be held on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 10 a.m., officiated by Pastor A.B. Blair.

Mentions: Ryan, Kenneth Van Wyk, Ryan Kenneth, Van Wagenen, Ryan Van Wagenen, Benson, Arizona, First Baptist Church

https://www.bensonnews-sun.com/obituaries/article_3b33f95c-8887-11e3-af26-0019bb2963f4.html

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  Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Storylines from the Past Offer Lifelines Too

by Kay Kendall

“I tried so hard to sleep last night, but kept getting up to read more of Kay Kendall’s DESOLATION ROW. It resonates powerfully in these troubled times . . . .”

So begins the newest reader comment on Amazon about one of my mysteries. Of course any laudatory review is a pleasure for an author to read about one of her book babies. However, while I was thrilled to see five stars, I was surprised to see an emotion expressed about reading my fiction that I never expected.

The reviewer concluded a personal email to me by saying, “I realized that the ideas/ideals are as compelling as the plot in your books, just what we need right now.”

I write historical murder mysteries, and my chosen time period is the turbulent era of the 1960s. Back in 2012 when I finished writing DESOLATION ROW and then when it debuted in 2013, I had hoped that setting my first book in a fraught time of extreme unrest would be interesting. I thought it would help readers of the baby boom generation remember their salad days and younger readers might read and learn what it was like. The plot is fiction. The background is not. DESOLATION ROW looks at the consequences of the Vietnam War, the anti-war movement, and personal outcomes from military service. In RAINY DAY WOMEN published in 2015, I explore the hopes for female improvement held by early members of the women’s liberation movement.

One reason I write about that time period is to describe its importance to those who know nothing about it. Reading fiction is an easy way to learn about history.

After both my mysteries were in print, I spoke to classes at a community college in Alabama. Only two in one hundred students knew about Bob Dylan—my book titles come from his songs. Moreover, none of them knew why the United States was drawn into fighting a war in Vietnam. And none of them had ever heard of the “domino theory.”

Another reason I write about the 1960s is to commemorate and revivify a part of American history that has had far reaching effects. Societal upheaval was so intense in the 1960s that the aftershocks still are felt today. Until very recently, that past seemed dead and buried.

Yet only two years since I spoke to those Alabama students and right now, right now the 1960s have gained new relevance. The era is evoked often on television news stations. Old battles are being fought again in the streets of America. And readers are telling me that my books bring them hope.

After all, they say, If we Americans got through such troubled domestic times once, we can do so again. But hang on, dear readers, we may be in for a long and bumpy ride.

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Read the first 20 pages of Kay Kendall’s second mystery, RANY DAY WOMEN here! http://www.austinstarr.com/  That book won two awards at the Killer Nashville conference in August 2016—for best mystery/crime and also for best book.  Visit Kay at https://www.facebook.com/KayKendallAuthor

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storytellermaryAugust 16, 2017 at 10:31 AMReply

It does seem that the right book often finds one at just the right time, and a bit of lost sleep is a fair trade for a reminder of hope. Thanks again (and happy to repay in small measure with a review 😉 Good wins — always — if we just keep on working, and our past actions inspire future work. I used to keep my activist past a bit quiet, but students picked up on it anyway, and would sometimes ask strategic questions as they planned or reported on their own actions. One of my favorite students called her friends to counter-demo and outnumber a “Mexicans go home” rally on Cinco de Mayo on Mexico Road — really! I was so proud of her. ❤ I once said, when my sophomores were reading NIGHT, that I would hope I would be brave enough to hide those in danger, but that no one could be sure until faced with the decision and the dangers. A student studied me for a minute, then declared, “Oh, yes . . . YOU would.” I thanked her for having faith in me . . . and hoped never to have to find out.

kkAugust 16, 2017 at 10:40 AMReply

I know you are right, Mary. We think we know what we would do and often criticize people who we think did not act right in the past. But until we are in that situation, we never know what we would do. Sometimes we get to make a choice similar to ones in the past. Reading history gives me courage and perspective. President Truman for example never went to college but he read biographies of great men. So did President Washington. Truman led troops into WWI battles and his men revered him. We don’t have to fight in wars to show that we have courage and can act to protect others from harm.

Linda ZagonAugust 16, 2017 at 10:51 AMReply

—————————————————————————————————————————————– MY REVIEW OF “DESOLATION ROW’ by Kay Kendall I have to blame author Kay Kendall, author of ” DESOLATION ROW’ for the sleepless night I had, so that I could finish reading her novel. I just couldn’t stop reading until I discovered “Who Did It?” so to speak. The genres for “DESOLATION ROW’ are Mystery, Fiction, and in my opinion, Historical Fiction. This novel brought me back to the end of the sixties, and reminded me of so many things. The year is 1968, and you are living in a foreign country that is supposed to be friendly to Americans. Although the times are turbulent and there is a lot of tension. Many American citizens have come to Canada as Draft Resistors for different reasons. Even within the resistors are factions that are split on how to handle the protests. The war in Vietnam is not like any war in history. Then you have a different political agenda, that of older men that fought during World War Two, and were proud to fight for America. Now, can you imagine that your nerdy, kind, gentle husband is arrested on suspicion of murder? You really can’t afford an attorney. You don’t have much of a support system. Your parents are in Texas, and not pleased at all that you left with your husband to go to Canada. Well, meet Austin Starr, a 22 young married student who came to Canada with her husband, who was her college boyfriend. Austin seems to have a major problem. The author describes the characters as complex and complicated. Some characters are angry, unbalanced, jealous, have strong convictions, and some characters have secrets important to protect. There are a number of characters who could be suspect in murdering a Draft Resistor that was not really well liked. What is the motivation and why? Austin turns to her Russian Professor and his daughter for help in finding who the “real killer is. Visiting her husband in the desolate jail spurs her on to look for clues.There are twists and turns and threats and danger. Then there is another murder. I appreciate the way Kay Kendall describes the history, the characters, and the intriguing plot. Having lived during this era, I felt like I was revisiting the past. There is the discussion of corrupt politicians, and the upcoming election, when Richard Nixon was running for president. The author also discusses how any war changes the lives of the people who come home and their families. To quote Kay Kendall,” While the past was set in stone the future was framed by hope and possibility.” The author describes the importance of family, peace love, hope and faith. I really tried to follow the clues, but I was surprised to find who the murderer is. I highly recommend this intriguing and thought-provoking novel for readers who have a passion for life in the sixties and for anyone who loves a mystery with suspense and intrigue. I received a copy for my honest opinion. Share

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AHEAD of the August 2017 annual conference of the Nigeria Bar Association NBA, a website for the registration of participants has been officially unveiled even as online registration kicked off midnight Friday, June 23, 2017.

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SALISBURY, Md.– Victor H. Laws, Jr., a longtime lawyer and community leader in Wicomico County, died at Wicomico Nursing Home on Sunday, Feb. 12 after a lengthy illness. He was 97.

The following information about Laws’ life comes from his obituary:

Laws was born on May 8, 1919, to Victor H. Laws Sr. and Maud Truitt Laws of Wango, a small farming community in southeastern Wicomico County. Mr. Laws published a book in 1990, “Maud and Other Family Legends,” about his parents’ generation and life in rural Wicomico County in days gone by.

Long active in local law practice, business and politics, he began his education at the one-room Wango elementary school, then graduated from Wicomico High School in 1935, attended Salisbury State Teachers College (now Salisbury University) for two years and transferred to University of Maryland at College Park, and its School of Law, receiving two degrees, an A.B. in 1939 and an Ll.B. in 1941.

After admission to the Maryland Bar, Laws first practiced in Salisbury in 1941-42 with the firm of Miles, Bailey & Clark and in Baltimore in 1942 with the firm of Miles & O’Brien. After three years of service in World War II, 1942-45, with the Army Signal Corps, including service in England and France, he returned to Miles & O’Brien (now Miles & Stockbridge) from 1945-57 as an associate and later partner, then in 1957 moved back to Salisbury where he practiced in association with several Salisbury lawyers including E. Dale Adkins, Jr., Charles J. Potts, John William Long, Hobart Hughes, George Bahen, John B. Long II, and Russell C. Dashiell, Jr. In 1984, Mr. Laws formed the law firm of Laws & Laws, P.A. with his son Victor and daughter-in-law Jean as his partners and continued in that practice (now known as Laws, Insley & Benson, P.A.) until his retirement in 2011 after more than 65 years of practice.

Laws was vice-president of the Maryland State Bar Association and president of the Wicomico County Bar Association and a member of the American Bar Association. In 1983 he was appointed by the Court of Appeals of Maryland as a trustee of the Clients’ Security Trust Fund (now known as the Client Protection Fund), a state-wide agency funded by assessments on all Maryland lawyers that provides reimbursement to clients who are defrauded by their lawyers. He became chairman of the fund in 1986 and served in that capacity until 1999. During his 16 years of service, the fund’s assets and caseload increased substantially. Fund trustees, including the chairman, serve without pay.

In local politics,Laws was appointed city solicitor of Salisbury by Mayor Boyd E. McLernon in 1960 and re-appointed in 1962 by Mayor Frank Morris, serving until 1966. He was first elected to public office in 1962 as a member of the Wicomico County Democratic State Central Committee, serving as its chairman until 1966. In 1974 he was elected to the Wicomico County Council, was re-elected in 1978 and 1982, retired in 1986 and again was elected to the council in 1990, serving a total of 16 years, including terms as its vice-president and president.

He was the first council member to propose an annual county appropriation to benefit volunteer fire companies to help them buy fire-fighting equipment. Mr. Laws was an early and consistent advocate of amending the county charter to establish a county executive form of government, which was finally approved by the voters in 2004 and began to function in December 2006.

During a rare hiatus from county government, Laws helped to mediate an impasse between the Circuit Court and County Council over how to expand or remodel the old Wicomico County Courthouse, which dates from 1878. The ad hoc committee’s work led to the construction of the new Wicomico County Courts Building in use today.

Laws has been generous to the University of Maryland School of Law, supporting its annual fundraising efforts and also providing a gift that funded facilities for the law school’s Legal Clinic. In recent years, he made major gifts to Wor-Wic Community College, the Salvation Army’s West Salisbury Richard Hazel Youth Club, the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore and Peninsula Regional Medical Center.

Laws was recognized for his leadership in local government and the legal community, receiving the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce Award in 2003. He also was honored by the Salisbury Advisory Council on Youth Activities. In 2011, the Maryland Bar Foundation bestowed on Mr. Laws its Legal Excellence Award for the Advancement of Public Service Responsibility.

Laws was involved, personally or professionally, in several real estate projects that changed the local landscape. These included the development of the Giant Food and Montgomery Ward shopping centers, and downtown Salisbury office buildings and the Waverly Plaza Shopping Center, including the former Royal Exchange Pub Restaurant, with his cousin Richard M. Laws as his partner. With partners and clients such as Oscar Carey and Jim English, Laws helped create several Ocean City condominium high-rises. With other partners he developed the Riverside Pines subdivision and the Ocean Resorts Golf Course, and started the reclamation of an industrial site that became the Village Down River residential development.

On the occasion of his 90th birthday on May 8, 2009, he hosted a large celebration party at the Wicomico County Youth & Civic Center. Attendees included the Honorable Robert M. Bell, the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, and numerous other local judges, lawyers, politicians, clients, relatives and friends. Mr. Laws was a longtime member, trustee, treasurer and deacon of the Salisbury Old School Baptist Church where he supervised several repair and renovation projects. But by 2006, the membership of the church had declined and its location at Baptist Street and Route 50 was congested and suffered from a lack of access and parking. He then led the effort to sell the Salisbury church property, merge its membership with Forest Grove Old School Baptist Church near Parsonsburg, and modernize the Forest Grove church by adding an accessible entrance, spacious kitchen and dining area, and parking lot.

Laws was a member or former member of several local clubs, including Elks Lodge #817, Rotary Club of Salisbury, Ocean City Golf and Yacht Club, Green Hill Yacht & Country Club, and the Seagull Club at Salisbury University. In addition to golf, his hobbies were reading, writing, and foreign and cruise travel. He enjoyed ballroom dancing with both wives as a member of the Laurel and Salisbury Cotillions.

Friends may call at Holloway Funeral Home between 6 and 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17. On Saturday, Feb. 18, services will be held at 3 p.m., with visitation beginning at 2 p.m., at the Forest Grove-Salisbury Old School Baptist Church, 6562 Forest Grove Road, Parsonsburg, with Elder Elbert M. Robbins officiating. Burial at the Laws Family Cemetery in Wango will be private.

Contributions may be made to the Forest Grove-Salisbury Old School Baptist Church, c/o Jean Leonard, 29140 Waller Rd., Delmar, MD 21875 or to a charity of your choice.

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  Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Storylines from the Past Offer Lifelines Too

by Kay Kendall

“I tried so hard to sleep last night, but kept getting up to read more of Kay Kendall’s DESOLATION ROW. It resonates powerfully in these troubled times . . . .”

So begins the newest reader comment on Amazon about one of my mysteries. Of course any laudatory review is a pleasure for an author to read about one of her book babies. However, while I was thrilled to see five stars, I was surprised to see an emotion expressed about reading my fiction that I never expected.

The reviewer concluded a personal email to me by saying, “I realized that the ideas/ideals are as compelling as the plot in your books, just what we need right now.”

I write historical murder mysteries, and my chosen time period is the turbulent era of the 1960s. Back in 2012 when I finished writing DESOLATION ROW and then when it debuted in 2013, I had hoped that setting my first book in a fraught time of extreme unrest would be interesting. I thought it would help readers of the baby boom generation remember their salad days and younger readers might read and learn what it was like. The plot is fiction. The background is not. DESOLATION ROW looks at the consequences of the Vietnam War, the anti-war movement, and personal outcomes from military service. In RAINY DAY WOMEN published in 2015, I explore the hopes for female improvement held by early members of the women’s liberation movement.

One reason I write about that time period is to describe its importance to those who know nothing about it. Reading fiction is an easy way to learn about history.

After both my mysteries were in print, I spoke to classes at a community college in Alabama. Only two in one hundred students knew about Bob Dylan—my book titles come from his songs. Moreover, none of them knew why the United States was drawn into fighting a war in Vietnam. And none of them had ever heard of the “domino theory.”

Another reason I write about the 1960s is to commemorate and revivify a part of American history that has had far reaching effects. Societal upheaval was so intense in the 1960s that the aftershocks still are felt today. Until very recently, that past seemed dead and buried.

Yet only two years since I spoke to those Alabama students and right now, right now the 1960s have gained new relevance. The era is evoked often on television news stations. Old battles are being fought again in the streets of America. And readers are telling me that my books bring them hope.

After all, they say, If we Americans got through such troubled domestic times once, we can do so again. But hang on, dear readers, we may be in for a long and bumpy ride.

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Read the first 20 pages of Kay Kendall’s second mystery, RANY DAY WOMEN here! http://www.austinstarr.com/  That book won two awards at the Killer Nashville conference in August 2016—for best mystery/crime and also for best book.  Visit Kay at https://www.facebook.com/KayKendallAuthor

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storytellermaryAugust 16, 2017 at 10:31 AMReply

It does seem that the right book often finds one at just the right time, and a bit of lost sleep is a fair trade for a reminder of hope. Thanks again (and happy to repay in small measure with a review 😉 Good wins — always — if we just keep on working, and our past actions inspire future work. I used to keep my activist past a bit quiet, but students picked up on it anyway, and would sometimes ask strategic questions as they planned or reported on their own actions. One of my favorite students called her friends to counter-demo and outnumber a “Mexicans go home” rally on Cinco de Mayo on Mexico Road — really! I was so proud of her. ❤ I once said, when my sophomores were reading NIGHT, that I would hope I would be brave enough to hide those in danger, but that no one could be sure until faced with the decision and the dangers. A student studied me for a minute, then declared, “Oh, yes . . . YOU would.” I thanked her for having faith in me . . . and hoped never to have to find out.

kkAugust 16, 2017 at 10:40 AMReply

I know you are right, Mary. We think we know what we would do and often criticize people who we think did not act right in the past. But until we are in that situation, we never know what we would do. Sometimes we get to make a choice similar to ones in the past. Reading history gives me courage and perspective. President Truman for example never went to college but he read biographies of great men. So did President Washington. Truman led troops into WWI battles and his men revered him. We don’t have to fight in wars to show that we have courage and can act to protect others from harm.

Linda ZagonAugust 16, 2017 at 10:51 AMReply

—————————————————————————————————————————————– MY REVIEW OF “DESOLATION ROW’ by Kay Kendall I have to blame author Kay Kendall, author of ” DESOLATION ROW’ for the sleepless night I had, so that I could finish reading her novel. I just couldn’t stop reading until I discovered “Who Did It?” so to speak. The genres for “DESOLATION ROW’ are Mystery, Fiction, and in my opinion, Historical Fiction. This novel brought me back to the end of the sixties, and reminded me of so many things. The year is 1968, and you are living in a foreign country that is supposed to be friendly to Americans. Although the times are turbulent and there is a lot of tension. Many American citizens have come to Canada as Draft Resistors for different reasons. Even within the resistors are factions that are split on how to handle the protests. The war in Vietnam is not like any war in history. Then you have a different political agenda, that of older men that fought during World War Two, and were proud to fight for America. Now, can you imagine that your nerdy, kind, gentle husband is arrested on suspicion of murder? You really can’t afford an attorney. You don’t have much of a support system. Your parents are in Texas, and not pleased at all that you left with your husband to go to Canada. Well, meet Austin Starr, a 22 young married student who came to Canada with her husband, who was her college boyfriend. Austin seems to have a major problem. The author describes the characters as complex and complicated. Some characters are angry, unbalanced, jealous, have strong convictions, and some characters have secrets important to protect. There are a number of characters who could be suspect in murdering a Draft Resistor that was not really well liked. What is the motivation and why? Austin turns to her Russian Professor and his daughter for help in finding who the “real killer is. Visiting her husband in the desolate jail spurs her on to look for clues.There are twists and turns and threats and danger. Then there is another murder. I appreciate the way Kay Kendall describes the history, the characters, and the intriguing plot. Having lived during this era, I felt like I was revisiting the past. There is the discussion of corrupt politicians, and the upcoming election, when Richard Nixon was running for president. The author also discusses how any war changes the lives of the people who come home and their families. To quote Kay Kendall,” While the past was set in stone the future was framed by hope and possibility.” The author describes the importance of family, peace love, hope and faith. I really tried to follow the clues, but I was surprised to find who the murderer is. I highly recommend this intriguing and thought-provoking novel for readers who have a passion for life in the sixties and for anyone who loves a mystery with suspense and intrigue. I received a copy for my honest opinion. Share

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