Bøger af Dave Wilkinson

Vacationing preteens find mystery and hidden knowledge in an old farmhouse on the Maine coast.

Tracing the ancestry of the Wilkinsons of Argyll and subsequently North Carolina, "Those Audacious Wilkinson Brothers" unearths the Knapdale/Kintyre roots of the family, including a full color pictorial of present-day Cuildrynoch, ancestral home of the brothers who Anglicized their name from the Gaellic McQuilkin to the English Wilkinson. Demonstrating an extraordinary amount of audacity, the Wilkinson brothers joined thousands of Scottish Highlanders who uprooted their families in the mid-1700s, shipping themselves across the turbulent North Atlantic in flimsy wooden ships designed to carry cargo, not passengers. Carrying little more than their dreams of a better life, the men, women and children who survived the voyage faced daunting challenges in the North Carolina wilderness. They hoped for a land of opportunity where they could carve out some semblance of prosperity that had been denied them in the Highlands. Leaving everything they knew behind them, they set out to conquer not just the land, but life itself. Many succeeded. This is the story of one extended family, seven brothers from Argyll - courageous and stubborn -- who put down roots on the hostile American frontier, those audacious Wilkinson brothers.

New novel lampoons Drug War. WITCHGRASS: a pipe dream, a novel by Dave Wilkinson portrays shattered lives and conflicted families as a New England town splits apart. What if a Vietnam helicopter suddenly landed in your back yard? The town of New Salem, Maine faces an invasion of military operations, secret spies and child-parent betrayal that sets a peaceful rural county spinning. Carolyn Chute, author of best-selling The Beans of Egypt, Maine, "cry-laughed and laugh-cried through a book more important than most of what they give kids to read in school." Witchgrass: a pipe dream sweeps the reader into a quiet world turned upside down by the War on Drugs. An afternoon invasion becomes a multi-faceted dramedy as marijuana-hunting helicopters cause confusion and panic one summer during the early 1990s. School children, sheriffs, professors and prosecutors play their parts in a story about one of America's major social issues. Emotions boil in the culture clash over cannabis, a matter which divides parent from child, employee from company, husband from wife. As the story comes to its unexpected and riotous climax, Maine in the Bush One era becomes a positive vision of future enlightenment. In its non-judgmental portrayal of cannabis users, this novel brightens the image of much-maligned pot smokers.

WORKSHOP: A Teaching Tale invites the reader on a spiritual and emotional journey with a group of college students at a photographic workshop in the late 60s. Lives are changed as a powerfully enigmatic master of photography challenges his students beyond their wildest dreams. Some thrive on the newly found freedom and undiscovered sexuality while it leads down a deadly path for another. WORKSHOP: A Teaching Tale captures the atmosphere and anything-goes attitude of the sixties. For some, the experience is ecstatic. For others, it's excruciating. It's a trip not to be missed.

This report presents the results of over 40 years of excavation, historic building survey and documentary research that has been carried out by Oxford Archaeology and others at the site of the Cistercian house of Rewley, a chantry founded in 1280.