Greener Prairie (Classic Reprint)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Parker, William Wilder McKinley) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Greener Prairie An Alberta pioneer, Wm. W. Parker, homesteaded in 1914 in central Alberta near the Alaska highway fifty miles west of Edmonton. A versatile teacher and poet, he was principal five years of high schools in the north. His Peace River school won first place three years straight for its magazine in creative writing contest. He published educational games and his first Alberta song in the twenties. During the past fifteen years he has taught high school art and shop and draughting, this past year at Rosemary. Recently he has published his own books, his stories and poetry enjoying wide sale and distribution. The author is in his last year at the University of Alberta for B.Ed. degree. In 1943 while attending the Banff School of Fine Arts on a Rockerfeller Foundation scholarship he organized the Alberta Schools Creative Writing competition. For many years he was an Edmonton Journal correspondent, contributing poetry and articles regularly. In 1912 he dined with Lord Baden Powell at a Boy Scout Leaders´ banquet in Chicago. Both the author and Mrs. Parker attend the United Church at Brooks. Mrs. Parker teaches in the Rosemary high school. The author of "Greener Prairie" is the father of two girls and three boys, two being teachers, two are now engineers and one a radar electrical technician in our navy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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