Sentences with phrase «born in the rural town»

Coleridge was born in the rural town of Otterly St. Mary in Devonshire, England, the youngest of fourteen children.

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I'm there, too, though not because of any childhood church experiences... the town church in our little rural community had kicked my parents out long before I was born.

He was born May 12, 1902, in Hiram, a small town in rural Ohio about 40 miles southeast of Cleveland, the only child of Anna and Green Trice.

Apart from the handful who were born in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island, in the first or third or ninth grade, reared in trailers or at friends» houses or in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land in a small town: population 15,000, liberal and rural, five crowded elementary schools.

I was born in rural Ulster County and grew up working on a vegetable farm in the Town of Esopus.

Lester Russell Brown was born in March 1934 in Bridgeton, a rural town in southern New Jersey founded by Quakers in the 17th century.

Of 754 twins born between 1734 and 1888 in five towns in rural Finland, girls from mixed - gender pairs proved 25 percent less likely to have children, had at least two fewer children, and were about 15 percent less likely to marry than those born with a sister.

Born into rural poverty and servitude, Gaines manages, through diligent work and an ingratiating manner towards white folk, to move from a small - town inn to a high - class hotel in Washington, DC, where he comes to the notice of a White House staff recruiter.

Green has been tapped to direct Freaks of the Heartland, a Dark Horse comic mini-series that takes place in a rural town in Middle America where mutant children are being born.

Born in 1915 and 1914, respectively, they both grew up in Mississippi — my father in the small rural town of Utica, where his parents both taught at a boarding school, the only school for blacks within a 200 - mile radius; and my mother in Vicksburg, where her father was an Episcopal priest and her mother a schoolteacher.

In fact, one of the two rejected schools, which would have been located in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their proposal bears no resemblance to what we have become accustomed to seeing in the world of New York charterIn fact, one of the two rejected schools, which would have been located in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their proposal bears no resemblance to what we have become accustomed to seeing in the world of New York charterin the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their proposal bears no resemblance to what we have become accustomed to seeing in the world of New York charterin New York State and their proposal bears no resemblance to what we have become accustomed to seeing in the world of New York charterin the world of New York charters.

Travis Somerville was born in 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia to white civil rights activists — an Episcopal priest and a school teacher, and grew up in various cities and rural towns throughout the Southern United States.

The man Rockwell, who spent the majority of his life living in rural and small town New England, was born on February 3, 1894 in New York City, a descendant of John Rockwell (1588 - 1662) who immigrated to America from Somerset, England around 1635.

Born and raised in Free Union, Virginia, Ashcom chisels his work out of the rural Americana of Hoys Fork — an amalgamated fiction of a small town, nestled in the South.

Born «in a scrap of a small town in rural Ontario where the road runs rough», Stev «nn was raised by a «mother with a dash of wanderlust and a father with a shot of whiskey».

Thomas Sturgill was born and raised in Pound, Virginia, a rural company town whose heyday had long passed.

On the gallery walls, a series of large collage panels with Weimar - era references will hang among photographs bearing the image of a 60 - foot stone monument to soldiers killed in World War I, from Worpswede in northwest Germany, the rural town where Ms. Meckseper grew up.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

Having painted in small - town Maine and downtown Manhattan, British - born artist Rackstraw Downes travels through rural Texas in search of new landscapes to inspire his panoramic paintings which explore the quandaries of representing the three dimensional world in two dimensions.