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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Scrapbook Memoirs of an African-American Artist: Watercolor Memories of Family, Faith, and Black Christian History

The Scrapbook Memoirs of an African-American Artist: Watercolor Memories of Family, Faith, and Black Christian History

Bell Jarratt, Debbie

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral ArtGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1973602962
ISBN13: 9781973602965
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: Nov 13 2017
Pages: 602
Weight: 2.94
Height: 1.22 Width: 8.25 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

Praise God from whom all blessings flow! This book is the illustrated story laced with portrait vignettes of my American family and my life as a creative artist. I have filled these memoirs with a retrospective of my art--pleasant ephemera, family papers, genealogies, love stories, newspaper clippings, church history, scripture, and vintage photographs presented in a scrapbook format. I correlate these wonderful stories with highlights of relevant American history--black and white. My husband, Tom, and I have rich legacies of captivating recorded family history that has survived. We can date his freeborn family back before 1779 and my enslaved family to 1815. When I was a little girl, it was always a special event when I sat with my grandaunt Florena Bell Brown on her sunporch to hear the ancient stories about our family. This rich oral family history impacted and inspired my life because my family was up from slavery and found American prosperity in such profound ways that it will amaze you. Knowing where we as a family came from gave me an appreciation for our history and the struggle to achieve goals and to never give up the way they didn't. I also found out how we fit into God's divine plan as one of the oldest continuously living things on earth called--the family!

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