The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization Mountains Beyond Mountains : The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World Evening in the Palace of Reason : Bach meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment Catch 22 One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

• The Matthew Gaines Debate at TAMU .
• The Texas Legislature during its most recent session unintentionally fanned the smoldering coals of the debate at Texas A&M University over Matthew Gaines when the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring him. Gaines, the Reconstruction state senator and former slave, is on record as having voted for, along with all other African-Texans in the 12th Texas Legislature, the adoption by Texas of the controversial and "Yankee-inspired" Morrill Land-Grant College Act, which legally established in 1871 the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (modern-day TAMU), and, as required by the same federal law, constitutionally set up in 1876 the "Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Benefit of Colored Youth" (modern-day Prairie View A&M University). ...
• In the mid-1990s, the idea arose among the Aggie Republicans that Matthew Gaines should be honored with a statue on the TAMU campus. ... Only President Bowen's request for further study of its merits sent the Gaines project into administrative limbo. ... " They unquestionably would have had his scalp held high in their hands before the sun had gone down on any day he might have endorsed the Gaines project. ...
• The "old Ags" who miss the carefully crafted neo-Confederate musings of former TAMU President Frank Vandiver (see Edward Sebesta's article in this issue) and who constantly argue that the grass-roots and irrepressible movement among TAMU students, faculty, and staff to erect a Gaines memorial -- which would be the first ever to recognize an African-American on the TAMU campus -- is a "political" rather than a credible "historical" development should read for themselves the resolution (H. ...
• The resolution in its entirety is reprinted below: "WHEREAS, Matthew Gaines of Washington County, state senator and Baptist minister, was one of the foremost African American leaders in Texas during the second half of the 19th century; and WHEREAS, Born August 4, 1840, to a slave mother in Louisiana, Mr. Gaines settled in Burton, Texas, following Emancipation; he quickly rose to prominence as a politician and minister, and in 1869 he won a seat in the state senate, where he represented Washington County in the 12th and 13th legislatures; and WHEREAS, During his term of office, Mr. Gaines worked for many progressive measures; he supported and voted for a successful bill establishing a tax-supported public school system for all Texans, and he worked and voted for the successful enabling legislation that made possible the creation of Texas A&M University in 1871 and Prairie View A&M University in 1876; he further sought to advance education by sponsoring a successful bill to exempt educational, religious, charitable, and literary associations from taxation; and WHEREAS, A vigorous champion of African American interests, he worked unrelentingly for the militia bill in order to provide protection for blacks at the polling places; after the measure passed, he sought, without success, to secure the election of an African American to the U. ... Gaines passed a bill authorizing his district to levy a special tax for the construction of a new jail, in order to protect newly freed slaves from mob violence, and he proposed an unsuccessful bill that would have given tenant farmers, most of whom were black, the first lien on their crops; and WHEREAS, In consequence of his activities, Mr. Gaines received numerous death threats and faced many attempts to smear his reputation; the political maneuvering of his enemies and the end of Reconstruction resulted in his ouster from the senate after only four years, but he continued to be active in politics and to speak out in many forums until his death in 1900; and WHEREAS, Mr. Gaines was a courageous advocate for genuine democracy and for the rights and interests of African Americans, and the descendants of this remarkable Texan, who still live in the vicinity of Washington County, have continued to contribute to and enrich their community; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 77th Texas Legislature hereby pay special tribute to the life of Matthew Gaines for his exceptional public service; and, be it further RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be prepared for the descendants of Mr. Gaines as an expression of high regard by the Texas House of Representatives. ...
• Visit the Matthew Gaines Memorial Homepage at www. ... edu/gaines/index. ...

• GAINES, MATTHEW (1840-1900). Matthew Gaines, black senator and Baptist preacher, was born on August 4, 1840, to a slave mother on the plantation of Martin G. ... Gaines escaped to freedom twice but each time was caught and returned to slavery. ... Later, Gaines was sold to a Texas planter from Robertson County, and in 1863 he made another escape attempt. ... qv During his tenure as a slave in Fredericksburg, Gaines worked as a blacksmith and a sheepherder. After Emancipation Gaines settled in Burton, Washington County, where he soon established himself as a leader of the black community, both as a minister and a politician. ...
• Gaines was a vigilant guardian of the rights and interests of African Americans. ... To encourage educational and religious groups to work toward educational improvement in their communities, Gaines sponsored a bill that called for exempting such organizations from taxation. ... Gaines was also responsible for the passage of a bill authorizing his district to levy a special tax for construction of a new jail. ... In keeping with this belief, Gaines waged an unrelenting war in the Senate for the passage of the Militia Bill. It was Gaines's feeling that if blacks were protected (via the Militia Bill) in the exercising of the Fifteenth Amendment, they could make a difference at the polls. Hence, after the successful passage of the Militia Bill, Gaines made a concerted, but unsuccessful, effort to drum up support to elect a black Texan to the United States House of Representatives. Gaines was very sympathetic to the plight of the black masses. ...
• Gaines was elected to a six-year term to the Senate, but served only four years because his seat was challenged when he was convicted on the charge of bigamy in 1873, and he subsequently relinquished his post. ... Gaines continued to he active in politics and made his political views known in conventions, public gatherings, and from his pulpit. ...

• Not much fuss was made when "EJ" Gaines became the newest member in "the Quarters," the slave area of the plantation, but much ado was made years later, however, when his books gave an immortal voice to the people in his early life. ... GAINES: Louisiana Stories, you'll meet the man who introduced an historical part of the old South to readers nationwide through such works as The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Gathering of Old Men, and My Father's House, to name a few. ...
• One of Gaines' most vivid memories of his childhood is sitting on the front porch with adults who came to visit his Aunt Augusteen, the woman who cared for him and his siblings. ... for my aunt and the other old people," Gaines recalls. ...
• There was an empty spot inside Gaines, however, that he sought to fill by reading fiction about his old home. ... When James Meredith became the first black to attend Ole Miss University, Gaines was inspired by the young man's perserverance and courage. ... "Each time I went back," says Gaines, "I realized that, as Hemingway would say, I was refilling the well. ...
• Old photographs illustrate what family members remember about Gaines' childhood and his career. ... Gaines himself, comments from other writers and scholars, and passages from his books, and you'll find yourself in the South of long ago. ...
• Gaines .

• Gaines.
• Gaines. ...
• Gaines tells stories of living poor and black in an earlier part of this century in what was possibly the least-friendly atmosphere for poor blacks: the South.
• Born on Riverlake plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, just outside New Roads, Gaines, the oldest of 12 children, was raised by a crippled aunt, Augusteen Jefferson. ... It was there that Gaines first entered a library. ... At 16, Gaines says, he knew what he wanted to do with his life.
• “I went into the library there because I was not allowed to go to the library in New Roads,” Gaines says. ...
• Gaines is also a professor of English at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, where he teaches one course a year. ...
• The characters and events are loosely based on lives and experiences that have really touched Gaines. ...
• But the common thread in Gaines’ work is the land, which is sometimes the most important element in his fiction. ... Never has dirt been more vocal than in Ernest Gaines’ terrain.
• Gaines attended his first six years of school in the plantation church, where a visiting teacher taught five to six months a year, depending on when the children were needed to work in the field. Gaines describes himself as an average student, “maybe a little above average,” and recalls a few classroom strappings that marked his attempts at mischief.
• Asked if he writes solely for himself, Gaines says he writes to be published, “. ... If forced to choose a “target” audience, Gaines says, “I would say that I write for the black youth of the South, because I’d like him to realize his life is worth literature. ...

• Texas A&M Will Remember Matthew Gaines.
• Senator Matthew Gaines, a former slave who became the first African-American state senator trom Washington County, was a prominent leader in the I2th Legislature. ... As members of the Texas A&M University community, we are unquestionably circuitous beneficiaries of the original vision of the men who drafted and passed in 1862 during the Civil War the Morrill Act, but we are direct legatees of Matthew Gaines. ...
• Led by the College Republican Advisor Professor Richard Stadelmann and Steve Pryor, student leader, a Campus Manhew Gaines Committee was founded in cooperation with student leaders and faculty. ...
• Stadelmann's tireless effort to see Matthww Gaines finally honored for all of his great achievements. ...
• The proposed statue will be life size and estimated costs are expected to reach $200,000 in order to build a suitable statue that Matthew Gaines deserves. ...

• Gaines, in his own words:.
• The world into which Ernest James Gaines was born--on January 15, 1933--is essentially the world which he has distilled into the dense and complex world of his six novels and his stories. ... The black community in which Gaines grew up became "the quarter" of this 1993 novel, as well as providing the setting and social matrix of his previous works. The author's vision of Henri Pichot's cane fields stems firectly from the fields in which Gaines himself worked as a child. As Gaines has said: "Though the places in my stories and novels are imaginary ones, they are based pretty much on the place where I grew up and the surrounding areas where I worked, went to school, and traveled as a child. ... " Gaines also has drawn considerably on the mores of black culture and the storytelling traditions of rural Louisiana. ...
• A Lesson Before Dying won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, the most recent of numerous awards that Gaines has received. ... Gaines has steadily been recognized for his achievement as a master of the novel and short story. ...

• Gaines County Cemetery, Seagraves, Texas.

• Gaines County, Texas.
• 1876 the Texas legislature formed Gaines County from Bexar County. Gaines County was attached to Bexar County for administrative purposes in 1876, then to Shackelford County in 1877 and to Martin County in 1885. ...
• Gaines County, Texas History.
• Gaines County, Texas Birth Records.
• Gaines County, Texas Marriage Records.
• Gaines County, Texas Divorce Records.

• Chris Gaines Sheet Music.
• Chris Gaines, Garth Brooks: Lost In You.
• Performed by Chris Gaines, Garth Brooks, composed by Gordon Kennedy, Tommy Sims, Wayne Kirkpatrick. ... As recorded by Garth Brooks as Chris Gaines. ...
• Chris Gaines, Garth Brooks: Chris Gaines Greatest Hits.
• Performed by Chris Gaines, Garth Brooks. ...
• Chris Gaines Greatest Hits.
• Performed by Chris Gaines. ...

• Ernest Gaines: A man of the word .
• I met Ernest Gaines the way a writer wants to be met. ...
• I met this unbelievable cat—Ernest Gaines—he’s going to read from his new novel. ...
• That night I read Bloodline, Ernest Gaines’ astonishing collection of short stories. ...
• But none of this prepared me for hearing Ernest Gaines read from The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. ... " Hearing Ernest Gaines, I felt in the presence of the rivers and bayous, the oak and pecan trees, the earth and sky of Louisiana. ...
• Afterward, Harper, Gaines, and I stopped for a drink. Berets are a Gaines trademark, and on this afternoon, he wore a dark green one. ...
• In those days, Gaines lived and wrote in a second-floor apartment on Divisadero Street in San Francisco. ... Gaines is a reserved man. ...
• Gaines told us that a national magazine had gone back on its commitment to serialize The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman after the editor in chief realized that the book was "a novel I had made up in my mind and not a diary I found hidden in a chiffonnier somewhere," and that "there was no little old lady in my parish named Miss Jane Pittman. ...
• Gaines laughed ruefully. ...
• Gaines, I’m sure, had heard such talk before. ...
• At first, the students indulged me; then, after they read Gaines’ novel, they thanked me. A couple of them who lived in San Francisco went so far as to stake out Gaines on his walk, accost him with first editions in hand, and ask him if he would please sign their books. ...
• For 30 years now, I have taught and written about Ernie Gaines’ books, especially Bloodline (1968), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971), A Gathering of Old Men (1983), and, most recently, A Lesson Before Dying (1993), a novel in which Gaines takes the black vernacular to new frequencies of eloquence through the voice of Jefferson, a young black man unjustly accused of murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair. ...

• The 1870s: Matthew Gaines .
• Photograph of Matthew Gaines with caption: Matthew Gaines of Brenham (Washington County) served in the 12th (1870-71) and 13th (1872) Legislatures.
• Gaines was one of four African Americans to serve Texas as state senator during the 19th century. ... " Gaines fought for many issues: education, aid to the insane, prison reform, the protection of African Americans at the polls and their election to public office, tenant-farming reform, and restraints on bribery and fraud. ...
• In 1871, Gaines sponsored successful legislation to exempt educational and religious groups from taxation as an incentive to improve communities. ... Gaines was disappointed when the bill passed without its integration clause. ...
• Senator Gaines was a threat to Democrats. ... His seat was challenged by a Democrat who charged that Gaines was a convicted felon. Gaines was removed from office despite the fact that the charge was groundless. ...

• Please note: If you have received unsoliticited mail (spam) from anyone marketing ANYTHING OR ANY WEBSITE and using a gaines. ... This is not an activity authorized by or approved of by Gaines Nutrition. ... only our domain name (gaines. ...
• Gaines Nutrition.
• Products carried by Gaines Nutrition are not offered as a treatment or cure for any medical conditions, but only as nutritional support (as indicated by scientific studies or the clinical experience of nutritional practitioners). All information contained within the entire Gaines Nutrition web site is provided for educational purposes only. All information presented throughout the Gaines Nutrition web sites, whether by Gaines Nutrition and/or its employees and/or its associated manufacturers and/or distributors, has not been evaluated by the FDA, and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, nor should it be used as a therapeutic modality or as a substitute for your own physician's advice. ... Gaines Nutrition is not responsible for misuse and/or abuse of any product sold as a result of consumer(s) using these web sites, nor is Gaines Nutrition responsible for any problem(s) or difficulty which may arise though consumer use of any product sold by Gaines Nutrition. Prior to ordering products from Gaines Nutrition, please consult your physician if you have any concerns and/or questions about the adviseability of using any product(s) offered by Gaines Nutrition. This notice is posted on every page of the Gaines Nutrition website. Ordering products from Gaines Nutrition constitutes consumer acceptance of the terms of this notice. ...
• Gaines Nutrition is not responsible for typographical errors within our web sites. ...

Do you have a great site about Gaines? Is your Gaines site listed here? Would you like a prefered placement of your site in this directory?

It's easy! First place, the HTML from the box below on your page that you would like listed in this directory.

Then use our link submission request with your name, your contact information, and the URL of your site that has a link to this directory. After we verify your link to us, we'll make sure your site stays in our directory, and we'll give it prefered placement here also.

Here is how to make a simple text link to us. Just copy the code in this box to your website:

We can also develop a custom Guide To The Internet for your site. Please request your own custom Guide To The Internet.