{"id":21253,"date":"2012-03-10T19:32:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T19:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21253"},"modified":"2012-03-10T20:03:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T20:03:45","slug":"the-stones-of-the-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21253","title":{"rendered":"The Stones of the Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalhumanitiescenter.org\/pds\/maai2\/identity\/text5\/dunbarnelson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Stones of the Village<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson<br \/>\n<em>Current copyright holder unknown. Due diligence has been exercised by the National Humanities Center to identify the copyright holder.<\/em><br \/>\nca. 1900-1910<br \/>\n19 pages<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alice_Dunbar-Nelson\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alice Dunbar-Nelson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Victor Grab\u00e9rt strode down the one, wide, tree-shaded street of the village, his heart throbbing with a bitterness and anger that seemed too great to bear. So often had he gone home in the same spirit, however, that it had grown nearly second nature to him\u2014this dull, sullen resentment, flaming out now and then into almost murderous vindictiveness. Behind him there floated derisive laughs and shouts, the taunts of little brutes, boys of his own age.<\/p>\n<p>He reached the tumble down cottage at the farther end of the street and flung himself on the battered step. Grandm\u00e9re* Grab\u00e9rt sat rocking herself to and fro, crooning a bit of song brought over from the West Indies years ago; but when the boy sat silent, his head bowed in his hands she paused in the midst of a line and regarded him with keen, piercing eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Eh, Victor?\u2014she asked. That was all, but he understood. He raised his head and waved a hand angrily down the street towards the lighted square that marked the village center&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire short story <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalhumanitiescenter.org\/pds\/maai2\/identity\/text5\/dunbarnelson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stones of the Village The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Current copyright holder unknown. Due diligence has been exercised by the National Humanities Center to identify the copyright holder. ca. 1900-1910 19 pages Alice Dunbar-Nelson Victor Grab\u00e9rt strode down the one, wide, tree-shaded street of the village, his heart throbbing with a bitterness and anger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1933,15],"tags":[758],"class_list":["post-21253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-bookchapter","category-novels","tag-alice-dunbar-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}