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In 1961, when Amazing Grace Jansen, a firecracker from Appalachia, meets Mary Elizabeth Cox, the daughter of a Black southern preacher, at Kentucky s Berea College, they already carry the scars and traces of their mothers troubles. Poor and single, Maze s mother has had to raise her... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Amazing Grace (Maze) Jansen Whitman: Add a description of this character.
- Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) Cox
- Harris Whitman: Maze's husband
- Shade Nixon
- Visitor (Vista) Combs: Maze's mother
- Georginea Fenley Ward (Sister Georgia)
- Sarah Cox: M. E.'s mother
- George Cox: M. E.'s father
- Nicklaus Jansen: Maze's father
- Nora Bates Taylor: Vista's employer at Shaker Inn
- Russell Taylor: Vista's employer at Shaker Inn
- Sister Hortency Hooser: One of the last 2 Pleasant Hill Shakers
- Brother Benjamin: One of the last 2 Pleasant Hill Shakers
- Aunt Paulie: M.E.'s aunt - taught her to play piano
- Dr. Wendt: taught existential philosophy at Berea College
- Clarisa Pool: Sarah Cox's childhood friend
- Octavia Prize: University of Chicago anthropology professor
- Marcus Dyer: Jazz drummer
- Daniel
- Robert
- Mamaw Marthie
- Mother Ann
- Sister Mary
- Phil
- Daphna
- Lenora
- Chopin
- Dawson
- Tobias Jewell
- Darrell
Quotes edit
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“Only Negroes who talked back or stepped out of line risked such dangers, George assured his congregation. If they kept to their own and minded their tongues, they would be safe.”
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“White people in downtown Richmond still crossed the street to avoid walking on the same side as her. Having a baby hadn't changed that. White people had also killed her brother. That was what she knew about white people.”
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“She had seen this in the men who stayed at the Beau Rive Hotel, and she had laughed at herself, the poor coal-country girl hidden in the kitchen, when she felt a wave of longing well up inside her at the sight of those men in their crisp suits and gold cufflinks. She couldn't even get a dirt-poor boy like Nicklaus Jansen to stay put; what kind of hold could she ever have on a man like that?”
First Sentence edit
In April of 1968 Maze Jansen Whitman wrote a letter to her friend Mary Elizabeth Cox.
Table of Contents edit
Pilgrim and Stranger (Maze Jansen and Mary Elizabeth Cox) April 1968
Sister (Georginea Fenley Ward/Sister Georgia) Cincinnati, Oberlin, Berea, 1872 - 1908
Pilgrim and Stranger - Berea College, Berea, KY, 1961
Visitor (Vista Combs Jansen) - Torchlight, KY- Torchlight, KY, 1938 - 1943
Pilgrim and Stranger - Berea, 1961
Sarah (Sarah Henry Cox) - Black Pool Road, KY, 1935
Pilgrim and Stranger - Richmond, KY and Berea, 1962
Visitor - Torchlight, Harrodsburg, and Pleasant Hill, KY, 1943 - 1947
Pilgrim and Stranger - Berea, 1962
Sarah - Black Pool Road and Richmond, 1939 - 1945
Pilgrim and Stranger - Pleasant Hill, Summer 1962
Sister - Harrodsburg and Pleasant Hill, 1908 - 1911
Pilgrim and Stranger - Berea, 1962
Sarah - Richmond, 1949 - 1961
Pilgrim and Stranger - Chicago and Pleasant Hill, 1963
Visitor - Pleasant Hill and Torchlight, 1947
Pilgrim and Stranger - Chicago, 1963
Pilgrim and Stranger - Stanford and Chicago, 1964
Pilgrim and Stranger - Chicago and Pleasant Hill, 1965
Sister - Pleasant Hill, 1965
Pilgrim and Stranger - Black Pool Road, 1965
Sarah - County Home, Stanford, 1963
Pilgrim and Stranger - New York, 1968
Authors & Contributors edit
- Joyce Hinnefeld (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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