Three days before Christmas, 1831, Frances Silver killed her husband, Charles, in their cabin in Mitchell County, North Carolina. It was a grisly murder, the body chopped into pieces, some of it burned in the fireplace. Three months later, Frankie was convicted and sentenced to death. She was hanged in Morganton on July 12, 1833. Frankie's story ...
On April 6, 1970, Vietnam War photojournalists Sean Flynn (son of Errol Flynn) and Dana Stone set off on two rented motorcycles to cover one last story and were captured by Communist forces, never to be seen or heard from again. Their friend and fellow journalist, Perry Deane Young, tells their story here in a remarkable memoir first published in ...
Twenty-three years after publishing his story, David Kopay remains the only NFL player who has publicly acknowledged his homosexuality. From psychotherapy to hypnosis to heartbreaking family confrontations to finally surprising acceptance from former teammates and coaches, this is a story of denial leading to acceptance, and finally to pride. As ...
HANGED BY A DREAM? On a bitterly cold winter's night in January 1881, Joshua Young was disturbed by an incredible dream or vision. A young woman with a broken neck appealed to him for help. He kept trying to sleep but the dream persisted. Next morning, he and a neighbor stopped a funeral cortege that was walking by. When they opened the casket, ...
Our Young Family is the story of an American family who first arrived in Maryland in the 1600s. Members of the first Methodist meeting ever held in the United States, they named their children after the founders of this religious movement of the mid-1700s. In the 1760s, the family left Maryland for the frontier of western North Carolina and ...
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