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Breaking Bread With Misfits is for anyone who strives, and struggles, to live and to love on a deeper level than the masses, and it's aimed at all who have ever felt a longing and a sense of adventure to get more from life, and that is especially true for all kinds of Artists. Some of the passages are fun, surprising, and humorous, and others are hauntingly serious as they arouse mind, heart and soul. They range from two sentences to four page...

Mit dem >Pfad der Tränen< verbindet sich eine der großen Tragödien der amerikanischen Geschichte: Im Jahre 1838 wurden die Cherokee-Indianer aus ihren Stammesgebieten 900 Meilen weit in ein Reservat getrieben, wobei Tausende starben. Jerry Ellis, der selbst von den Cherokee abstammt, ist diesen blutdurchtränkten Weg nachgegangen. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

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Donning a backpack for a long, lonely walk, the author of "Marching Through Georgia: My Walk with Sherman" retraces the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the 900 miles his ancestors had been forced to travel in 1838. Map.

More than six hundred years ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered by King Henry II's knights. Before the Archbishop's blood dried on the Cathedral floor, the miracles began. The number of pilgrims visiting his shrine in the Middle Ages was so massive that the stone floor wore thin where they knelt to pray. They came seeking healing, penance, or a sign from God. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, one of the greatest, most enduring works o...

In 1864 William Tecumseh Sherman made Civil War history with his infamous March to the Sea across Georgia. More than a century later, Jerry Ellis set out along the same route in search of the past and his southern and Cherokee heritage.On Ellis's trek by foot from Atlanta to Savannah, he confronts the contradictions and complexities of his native region as he reflects on his own. From Macon's fabled Goat Man to Arthur "Cowboy" Brown, the Savan...

Responding to the enduring lure of the West that captured his imagination as a child, Jerry Ellis decides to follow the trail of the Pony Express, a short-lived, hell-for-leather mail delivery service that lasted just one and a half years starting in 1860 but has marked itself in national memory ever since. Starting his journey in St. Joseph, Missouri, Ellis follows the Pony Express trail across Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and N...