In the sunny Florida Keys, where the skies are always blue, the waters calm, and the breezes warm, lives a tiny Key deer named Winnie McKee. At just a foot tall, she may be small, but her heart is as big as the ocean. Through her adventure, Winnie shows that size does not matter when it comes to having a big heart and making a difference in the Florida Keys. One day, while Winnie was munching on leaves at the Key Deer Refuge in Big Pine, two distressed manatees approached her. They were searching for their lost friend, Marty the Manatee. It turns out Marty had wandered off on an adventure of his own and was in trouble. Determined to help, Winnie embarks on a quest through the Florida Keys to find Marty and reunite him with his worried family. She meets some quirky and helpful friends along the way, from Armand the pie-loving rooster in Key West to a friendly hawk on Seven Mile Bridge, and even a pair of dolphins in Marathon. With their assistance, Winnie tracks down Marty and prevents a dangerous situation. But Winnie's adventure does not end there. In Islamorada, she discovers some newly hatched baby sea turtles who are disoriented by porch lights. With Marty's help, they guide the little sea turtles back to the safety of the ocean. In this adventure, Winnie McKee faces multiple challenges that she overcomes with the help of her Florida Key friends. They save Marty the Manatee and also some baby sea turtles, demonstrating how we can protect our precious wildlife by working together. Winnie McKee also sees how her tiny size does not reflect her brave heart. Together, the friends then celebrate their successful rescue with a slice of Key lime pie in the heart of Mallory Square, where the sunsets are as sweet as their victory. "Friends in the Keys are the best indeed!" Follow Winnie McKee on this exciting adventure through the Florida Keys.

This Christmas adventure hopes to bring attention to the endangered Key deer as it explores the amazing Florida Key islands and introduces some of the animals that make these islands their home. In the beautiful Florida Keys on Christmas Eve, Santa is stranded. One of his reindeer lost a magical bell and without the bell, the reindeer are struggling to fly. But Winnie McKee, a tiny Key deer, hopes to save Christmas with the help of her animal friends. In Key West, a rooster helps Winnie McKee find the magical bell and then introduces her to a manatee that takes her to the National Key Deer Refuge in Big Pine. She then gets the assistance of two dolphins to make it across Seven Mile Bridge to Marathon. Once there, a tricky hawk tries to steal the magical bell, but then decides to help Winnie McKee in an effort to get on Santa's nice list. On a fishing boat from Marathon to Islamorada, Winnie McKee meets a crab who helps her get passage to Key Largo on a raft with some friendly sea turtles. Finally, Winne McKee meets Santa at the Coral Reef State Park in Key Largo, where he exclaims, "Christmas is saved! Thank you, Winnie McKee! Who would have known that the tiniest deer would have the bravest heart. This Key deer saved Christmas!"

Also includes some descendants of Otto Beery. He was born in 1859 at Langnau, Berne, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States ca. 1885. He married Mary McCleary in 1890 at Passaic, New Jersey. They had five children, 1891-1906. He died in 1918 at Wallington, New Jersey.

This powerful book documents--in images and words--the unsettling experience of a dozen men and women workers who lost their jobs in the steel mills in Buffalo, New York, and then had to fashion new lives for themselves. It is the fruit of a collaboration between the celebrated documentary photographer Milton Rogovin and Michael Frisch, a leading figure in American oral history.

Cornell University is fortunate to have as its historian a man of Morris Bishop's talents and devotion. As an accurate record and a work of art possessing form and personality, his book at once conveys the unique character of the early university—reflected in its vigorous founder, its first scholarly president, a brilliant and eccentric faculty, the hardy student body, and, sometimes unfortunately, its early architecture—and establishes Cornell's wider significance as a case history in the development of higher education. Cornell began in rebellion against the obscurantism of college education a century ago. Its record, claims the author, makes a social and cultural history of modern America. This story will undoubtedly entrance Cornellians; it will also charm a wider public. Dr. Allan Nevins, historian, wrote: "I anticipated that this book would meet the sternest tests of scholarship, insight, and literary finish. I find that it not only does this, but that it has other high merits. It shows grasp of ideas and forces. It is graphic in its presentation of character and idiosyncrasy. It lights up its story by a delightful play of humor, felicitously expressed. Its emphasis on fundamentals, without pomposity or platitude, is refreshing. Perhaps most important of all, it achieves one goal that in the history of a living university is both extremely difficult and extremely valuable: it recreates the changing atmosphere of time and place. It is written, very plainly, by a man who has known and loved Cornell and Ithaca for a long time, who has steeped himself in the traditions and spirit of the institution, and who possesses the enthusiasm and skill to convey his understanding of these intangibles to the reader." The distinct personalities of Ezra Cornell and first president Andrew Dickson White dominate the early chapters. For a vignette of the founder, see Bishop's description of "his" first buildings (Cascadilla, Morrill, McGraw, White, Sibley): "At best," he writes, "they embody the character of Ezra Cornell, grim, gray, sturdy, and economical." To the English historian, James Anthony Froude, Mr. Cornell was "the most surprising and venerable object I have seen in America." The first faculty, chosen by President White, reflected his character: "his idealism, his faith in social emancipation by education, his dislike of dogmatism, confinement, and inherited orthodoxy"; while the "romantic upstate gothic" architecture of such buildings as the President's house (now Andrew D. White Center for the Humanities), Sage Chapel, and Franklin Hall may be said to "portray the taste and Soul of Andrew Dickson White." Other memorable characters are Louis Fuertes, the beloved naturalist; his student, Hugh Troy, who once borrowed Fuertes' rhinoceros-foot wastebasket for illicit if hilarious purposes; the more noteworthy and the more eccentric among the faculty of succeeding presidential eras; and of course Napoleon, the campus dog, whose talent for hailing streetcars brought him home safely—and alone—from the Penn game. The humor in A History of Cornell is at times kindly, at times caustic, and always illuminating.

Scope includes artists who were born, or artistically active, in Kansas.