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- The family's branches are descended from John Ames, the son of a 17th-century settler of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Numerous public and private works throughout the U.S. are named after family members, including the city Ames, Iowa, and the NASA Ames research center in California.
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Aug 12, 2021 · Article continues after video. Stating creative differences with the show’s writers and producers, Amos said of his 1976 departure: “I left because I was told that my services were no longer ...
Feb 26, 2022 · John Amos’ Good Times: The Iconic Actor Reflects on His Career 45 Years After Roots Changed TV Forever. By Mekeisha Madden Toby. February 25, 2022 6:52 pm. Courtesy of ABC. Share. 71. Getting...
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Jan 16, 2018 · Marilynne Robinson’s novel manages to beguile the reader with its portrait of a quiet, resolutely workaday life – told through the eyes of a wise, if mysterious narrator. Gilead is a wonderful ...
John Ames (1738-1805), military officer and industrialist; Oliver Ames Sr. (1779-1863), industrialist; Oakes Ames (1804-1873), member of the United States Congress; Oliver Ames Jr. (1807-1877), president of the Union Pacific Railroad; John Ames Mitchell (1845-1918), architect; Oakes Angier Ames (1829-1899), industrialist
John Ames, a 76-year-old minister in Gilead, Iowa, is the novel’s protagonist. Gilead consists of John’s letters to his nearly seven-year-old son, who will still be very young when John dies; John is already suffering from a chronic heart condition when the novel begins. John was born in 1880 in Kansas and subsequently spent most of his ...
Summary. The narrator is John Ames, speaking in first-person. He is writing his son a letter, which he hopes his son will read this when he is grown. His parishioners often ask him about death, and now he is told that he is dying because his heart is failing. He regrets that he has nothing to leave his son, who is young right now, and his wife.
Nov 17, 2004 · In a way, John Ames, with his intense scholarship and inwardness, is a type of religious figure that crosses cultures. His meditation on every aspect of life as transcendentally significant is ...
