The main characters are Ned Wallis, James and Martha Wallis, Mr. Scully
This wonderful speech given twice (the last time in the middle of the civil war) by Sojourner Truth, emphasized and pleads for the right of women to be recognized as women. This mother of 13 [who saw most of her children sold into slavery] is not pleading for equality and voting rights. She is pleading for decency.
The whole speech is very moving. You might want to look it up.
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While living in the city has its bad points, the good ones can outweigh them.
In his travels Author William Least Heat-Moon stumbled upon the little store in a county names Nameless in Tenessee, eh tehn wrote about this journey he took with his family and when he describes this place he starts off by describing their store, and then Ginny and Thurmond Watts telling him the story of how the name of the county came to be.
The term that describes a carved or inscribed upright stone, usually used as a marker or to commemorate an event is a stele.