Books

Bilingual Poetry of Goldie Ardelle Morgan Haynsworth

Goldie’s fifty-three poems, are presented about Goldie’s life in the deep Southern Culture from 1916-1965 and are presented in two languages with the verses presented side by side throughout this book. The two languages chosen are English and Spanish to assist in teaching two commonly written and spoken in the USA, Mexico, and a large portion of South America along with several other nations. There is an opportunity to improve your language of choice.

Goldie, born in 1916 in the deep South where she lived until her death in 1965, wrote poetry about family, nature, compassion and sometimes mixed with a dash of humor, especially in her poems such as “A Letter to the Teacher” and “A Boy and His Toad.” From her early twenties until five days before her death, Goldie wrote about her childhood memories on the family farm, her children and grandchildren, her preacher, the death of a family member killed in Europe in WWII and more.

Most of her poems, including the inspirational “Margaret,” were written during her final and most difficult decade when she was hospitalized several times. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, Goldie expresses the emotions of life that we all experience and always in words that renew one’s spirit.

A Lifetime of Travel Stories

A Lifetime of Travel Stories is about my personal experiences while traveling through 21 European countries: two in Southeast Asia, two in South America, four in Central America, one in Africa, two in the Middle East, eleven Caribbean islands and several trips to Mexico.

There are several three month stays in New York City, Miami, Florida, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ketchum, Idaho, and Charleston, South Carolina. I kept a journal of the different activities. These journals are the source for most of the stories.

Several trips were to render medical assistance to communities in north east Honduras. The largest one was Limón, inhabited primarily by Garifuna people. Another trip was to Nicaragua to help build a small house with Habitat for Humanity for a family in need.

I Remember One Time

While working on my family’s genealogy, I learned how hard it is to find out how your ancestors lived, what they did, what they enjoyed or where they traveled. Now that I’ve finished those two books, I thought I should write down some of the stories I remember growing up, and a few more for my children and grandchildren.

Whether it’s the story about:
choking on gasoline;
Momma and Daddy making us kids get in the cast iron bathtub to keep from being shot;
the good looking girl that moved in next door;
the heavy catch we struggled to dump on Richard’s shrimp boat;
driving from South Carolina to Mexico City; or one of the other stories I have included here, they are as accurate as this mind of nearly seventy years can recall.

Haynsworth & Spencer Family Letters

As in his first genealogy, Edward Haynsworth, Jr takes forgotten landscapes and integrates them into the narrative of how a family came to be. However, this collection archives the actual thoughts and feelings of these individuals. Letters, postcards, and keepsakes have been captured and restored on these pages.

This excavated primary material does more than simply tell a story; it offers the opportunity to meet the people, to understand their fears and hopes, and to see a reality that is no longer tangible but just as real.

Let us not be a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.

The Morgan and Allied Families

A skillful dexterity with piles of raw material and fidelity to the facts dominates Edward Haynsworth, Jr.’s account of the banks of this river of history. Adults become infants and the dead live again as the story of these families unravel. Small tales of narrow escapes and young love, transcriptions of historical texts and personal letters, images of the very people who began the epoch that continues today, this book uncovers footsteps on a long journey.

Haynsworth follows the lineage of his maternal ancestors back six generations so that his family and future generations can know the people who decided their destinies. It is a privilege of the blissful to live not knowing that their present is a marionette attached to the past. Like an amnesia patient, we forget that our ancestors decided our current condition. Someone made the choice to move to the New World, to raise their children in the Deep South, to marry a certain kind of man or woman, to be a certain kind of person, to push their children toward education, etc. One choice determined what language Morgan’s would speak English. The journey-which chooses our parents, their occupation, their education, their social station, even how well they love us-starts before us and will end after us. We now have a few moments to influence the path traveled and history made. This Morgan genealogy documents a family origin and will help individuals locate their destinies.

Poetry of Goldie Ardelle Morgan Haynsworth 1916-1965

Goldie, born in 1916 in the deep South where she lived until her death in 1965, wrote poetry about family, nature, compassion and God—sometimes mixed with a dash of humor, especially in poems such as “A Letter to the Teacher” and “A Boy and His Toad.”

From her early twenties until five days before her death, Goldie wrote about her childhood memories on the family farm, her children and grandchildren, her preacher, the death of a family member killed in the war, and more. Most of her poems, including the inspirational “Margaret,” were written during her final and most difficult decade when she was hospitalized several times.

Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, Goldie expresses the emotions of life that we all experience and always in words that renew one’s spirit.