LEADER 03471nam 2200577 450 001 9910465272003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61376-346-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000719112 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001608737 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16319916 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001608737 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13047530 035 $a(PQKB)10096724 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4533218 035 $a(OCoLC)933516707 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37450 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4533218 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11214686 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000719112 100 $a20160613h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHappily sometimes after $ediscovering stories from twelve generations of an American family /$fAndie Tucher 210 1$aAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (320 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-62534-127-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSeeking paradise in the New World -- Camelot in the tobacco fields -- Declaring independence -- The Kentucky pioneers speak out -- The Civil War, real and unreal -- Damned Yankees -- Grandmother Grace. 330 2 $a"For more than four hundred years, members of the author's family have been telling stories about their American lives. They have told of impassioned elopements and heart-breaking kidnaps, of hairbreadth escapes and shocking murders, of bigamists, changelings, patriots, Indians, fires, floods, and how the great-grandmother of Chief Justice John Marshall married the pirate Blackbeard by mistake. In this beautifully written work, Andie Tucher considers family stories as another way to look at history, neither from the top down nor the bottom up but from the inside out. She explores not just what happened--everywhere from Jamestown to Boonesborough, from the bloody field at Chickamauga to the metropolis of the Gilded Age--but also what the storytellers thought or wished or hoped or feared happened. She offers insights into what they valued, what they lost, how they judged their own lives and found meaning in them. The narrative touches on sorrow, recompense, love, pain, and the persistent tension between hope and disappointment in a nation that by making the pursuit of happiness thinkable also made unhappiness regrettable. Based on extensive research in archives, local history societies, and family-history sources as well as conversations and correspondence, Happily Sometimes After offers an intimate and unusual perspective on how ordinary people used stories to imagine the world they wished for, and what those stories reveal about their relationships with the world they actually had"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aOral tradition$zUnited States 606 $aIntergenerational relations$zUnited States 606 $aPioneers$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOral tradition 615 0$aIntergenerational relations 615 0$aPioneers 676 $a305.20973 700 $aTucher$b Andie$01057108 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465272003321 996 $aHappily sometimes after$92492018 997 $aUNINA