50 States of Reading: Periodic Table

DE 1777 De Los Santos Belong to Me

NJ 1787 Walter Dean Myers Me Mop and the Sundance Kid

PA 1787 John Updike The Early Stories

CT 1788 Joseph Plumb Martin Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier

GA 1788 Olive Ann Burns Cold Sassy Tree

MD 1788 Edgar Allen Poe Complete Stories

MA 1788 Lehane Drink Before the War

NH 1788 John W. Blos A Gathering of Days

NY 1797 Henry Miller Sexus

SC 1788 Peter Matthieson Shadow Country

VA 1788 Randy Singer Fatal Attraction

NC 1789 Marisha Pessi Special Topics in Calamity Physics

RI 1790 H.P. Lovecraft Collections

VT 1791 John Irving Hotel New Hampshire

KY 1792 Sharon Creech Chasing Red Bird

TN 1796 Cormac Mc Carthy Suttree

OH 1803 Sherwood Anderson Wineburg Ohio

LA 1812 Anne Rice Interview with a Vampire

IN 1816 Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions

MS 1817 Wm Faulkner   The Hamlet

IL 1818 Philip K. Dick   The Man In the High Tower

AL 1819 Harper Lee   To Kill a Mocking Bird

ME 1820   Heidi Julavits Uses of Entertainment

MO 1821   Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn

AR 1836 Maya Angelou   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

MI 1837 Christopher Curtis   Bud Not Budy

FL 1845 Zora Neal Hurston Their Eyes Were watching God

TX 1845 Larry McMutry Texasville

IA 1846 Denis Johnson Jesus's Son

WI 1848 Carl Sandburg Poetry

CA 1850 Frank Portman King Dork

MN 1858 Sinclair Lewis Elmer Gentry

OR 1859 Ken Kessey   Sometimes A Great Nation

KS 1861 Wm S. Burroughs   The Ticket that Exploded

WV 1863 Glenn Taylor Marrowbone Marble Company

NV 1867 Sally Denton The Money and The Power The Making of Las Vegas and Its hold On America

NE 1867 Willa Cather One of Ours

CO 1876 John Fante A John Fante Reader

MT 1889 A.B. Guthrie The Big Sky

ND 1889 Leif Enger So Brave Young and Handsome

SD 1889 Wilder, Laura Ingles First Four Years

WA 1889 Shermon Alexie Ten Little Indians

ID 1890 Marilyn Robinson House Keeping

WY 1890 Proulx Wyoming Stories

UT 1896 Edward Abbey Fools Progress

OK 1907 Jay Hjoro In Mad Love and War

AZ 1912 Barbara Kingslover, Animal Dreams

NM 1912 Jon Nichols Magic Journey

AK 1959 Nancy Lord The Man Who Swam with Beavers

HI 1959 Kiana Davenport Song of the Exiles

DC 1800 Edward Albee   Zoo Story and other Plays

GU 1898 ?

FM 1947 ?

PW 1994 ?

VI 1917 ?

PR 1898 Dr. Rosario Ferre The Youngest Doll

MH 1899 ?

MP 1978 ?

Watauga 1778 ?

Frkln 1784 ?

Msk 1803 ?

WstFl 1803 E.O. Wilson Anthill

RVt 1791 ?

IsStm 1835 ?

RioG 1840 ?

RTx 1845 ?

CaR 1846 ?

CSA 1865 ?

Conch 1982 Hemingway Old Man and the Sea

?=Books Not Found Yet for Country or Republic so Suggestions Helpful!!!

Stand Alone Republics/Federations Untill Incorporated into the United States Date is the death of the Republics.

United States History of States Periodic Table

D 1777

NJ 1787

Pn 1787

C 1788

G 1788

M 1788

Ma 1788

Nh 1788

Ny 1797

SC 1788

V 1788

NC 1789

RI 1790

Vt 1791

Ky 1792

Tn 1796

O 1803

L 1812

I 1816

Ms 1817

Il 1818

Al 1819

Me 1820

Mo 1821

Ar 1836

Mg 1837

F 1845

Tx 1845

Wi 1848

Ca 1850

Mn 1858

Or 1859

Ka 1861

WV 1863

N 1867

Nb 1867

Co 1876

Mt 1889

ND 1889

SD 1889

Wa 1889

Id 1890

Wy 1890

Ut 1896

Ok 1907

Az 1912

NM 1912

Al 1959

H 1959

Gu 1898

NMI 1947

UVI 1917

PR 1898

AS 1899

CSA 1861

Frkln 1784

Msk 1803

WstFl 1803

IsStm 1835

RioG 1840

CaR 1846

Conch 1982

Stand Alone Republics/Federations Until Incorporated into the United States Date is the death of the Republics.

  I thought this would be a good way to look at all of the States at one Snap Shot.   I know it was nerdy of me but hey I am what I am... but I hope y'all like it anyway.  I hope someone might find it useful,   if so let me know.

• Light Blue: the first Thirteen Federal States
  
• Green Frontier Expansion First Wave, Vt, Ky, Tn, Oh,
  
• Grey States Southern Slave Owning States
  
• Orange: Agricultural Resources of the Frontier States
  
• Gold: Mining States Drawing People for wealth of Mineral Deposits.
  
• Purple States: Missionaries first outsiders to populate state.
  
• Green States: Territories of the United States
  
• Red States Former Republics of the United States until physically annexed to the continental United States.
  
• The red box: Civil War
  

Kareuac on Food and San Francisco

San Francisco is a food hunter’s paradise; even the United Wing of the San Francisco Airport has a plethora of delights.    Jessica (my wife) and I had so many choices for lunch, there was Clam Chowder in San Francisco Sour Dough Bread Bowls, Japanese Bento lunches, mission style burritos, good micro-brews, and probably a lot more; I was unable to see it all because my senses were overwhelmed.    

Jack Kerouac wrote of the bounty of food in San Francisco:

From on the Road by Jack Kerouac (Part Two - Chapter Ten)

In the window I smelled all the food of San Francisco.   There were seafood places out there where the buns were hot, and the baskets were good enough to eat too; where the menus themselves were soft with foody esculence as though dipped in hot broths roasted dry and good enough to eat too.  Just show me the bluefish spangle on a seafood menu, and I'd eat it; let me smell the butter and lobster claws.  There were places where hamburgers sizzled on grills and the coffee was only a nickel.  And oh, that pan fried chow mein flavored air that blew into my room from Chinatown, vying with the spaghetti sauces of North Beach, the soft-shell crab of Fisherman's Wharf- nay, the ribs of Fillmore turning on spits! Throw in the Market street chili beans, red-hot, and french-fried potatoes of the Embarcadero wino night, and steamed clams from Sausalito across the bay, and that's ah-dream of San Francisco.  Add fog, hunger making, raw fog, and the throb of neons in the soft night, the clack of high heeled beauties, white doves in a Chinese grocery window.