Scott R Sanders

When the author was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe, the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything. He writes, "The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days". This book is an account of his search, told as a series of dramatic, spiritually charged episodes including his early memory of watching a fire with his father, his attraction to...

After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves.

Twenty tales taken from folksongs reflecting American history, e.g. "Yankee Doodle," "John Henry," "The Blue-Tail Fly," and "Frankie and Johnnie." Includes the original folk song lyrics.

After being set free from slavery in 1832, young James Starman and his family journey from Tennessee to Indiana to start a new life and over the years they are joined by so many blacks that they start their own town.

As a boy and his father walk in the woods near their home, they share what they know about the bark, leaves, and fruit of the different species they see.