OLD DAYS - A Step Back In Time - Softcover

Ott, David P.; Miller, Carol L.; Miller, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492200468 ISBN 13: 9781492200468

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Old Days - A Step Back In Time. The title says it all. A novel based on facts and experience, the book explores a few years in the life of Keith Nail, who left his Pennsylvania home in the 1850s, traveling west to stake a claim. Today we would call it an adventure story, but it was the life he and many others chose. We experience his interactions with his neighbors, the struggle of his first winter, his encounter with the Indians, and the mutual support of all the families staking their claims. The story is poignant, including humorous as well as sad events. The unexpected ending makes you want more. Many of Keith’s experiences are based on the author’s own experiences. As David says: “I come from a long line of farmers, outdoorsmen, animal-lovers, and self-reliant providers. Keith’s adventures, although fictional, are grounded in that same spirit.”

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About the Author

Mike Miller is executive director of ORGANIZE Training Center and has more than fifty years experience as a community organizer working in the tradition of Saul Alinsky, for whom he was a project director. For five years, he also worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He has initiated neighborhood, citywide, and statewide organizing projects and has consulted widely with individual memberships coalitions, institution-based community organizations and their sponsor committees, and many other groups. Consultations include the United Church of Christ Board for Homeland Ministries, American Federation of Teachers, Metropolitan Organizations for People (Denver), and Tenderloin Senior Organizing Project (San Francisco). He has led intensive six-day workshops in the field and trained and mentored organizers. He has lectured extensively in the field and taught urban politics, political science, or community organizing at the University of California-Berkeley, Stanford University, University of Notre Dame, San Francisco State University, California State University-East Bay, and Lone Mountain College. His articles have appeared in Christianity & Crisis, Social Policy, New Conversations, Poverty Research & Race Action Reports, Generations, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Race, Poverty and the Environment, Dissent, Socialist Review, the liberal democrat, CounterPunch, other magazines and journals, and in the newspapers Sun Reporter and San Francisco Examiner. For four years, he edited Social Policy. Miller is the author of A Community Organizer's Tale: People and Power in San Francisco (2009) and has also written book chapters and numerous organizational working papers on community and labor organizing.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1492200468
• ISBN 13: 9781492200468
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278