The biography of Ruby Volen - daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, business owner and Jehovah's Witness - as told to by one of her grandsons, Craig McNeil.
Ruby is a story of creative nonfiction about slaves who were freed in 1854 before the Civil War and who started an encampment at Indian Run, a very small village in far Western Pennsylvania. Ruby is... More > a composite character because nothing is known of individual slaves, but historically the story is correct. The encampment and all its hardships, the doctor who freed his slaves in Virginia and the abolitionist in Pennsylvania who helped them find a place to live were very real. Like many Pennsylvania freed slaves, Ruby had a romance with an American Indian man. When the camp broke up after the Civil War, her best friend taught her to read and write. Life’s trials and basic survival drove her to become a businesswoman designing hats (becoming one of few women entrepreneurs of her era).< Less
Ruby is a story of creative nonfiction about slaves who were freed in 1854 before the Civil War and who started an encampment at Indian Run, a very small village in far Western Pennsylvania. Ruby is... More > a composite character because nothing is known of individual slaves, but historically the story is correct. The encampment and all its hardships, the doctor who freed his slaves in Virginia and the abolitionist in Pennsylvania who helped them find a place to live were very real. Like many Pennsylvania freed slaves, Ruby had a romance with an American Indian man. When the camp broke up after the Civil War, her best friend taught her to read and write. Life’s trials and basic survival drove her to become a businesswoman designing hats (becoming one of few women entrepreneurs of her era).< Less
She never thought love would make a home in her life. At twelve he prayed to be the perfect husband, but he did not find perfect love until his 76th year.
They come together with oddly... More > complimentary histories of domestic violence, emotional neglect, and ostracism. Ruby is the story of how they fall in love and the wonderful magic that ensues.< Less
…Beyond Earth. Earth is a distant memory. Welcome to the Red System. …Beyond Humanity. The human race is finished. NuManity rules the Red Worlds. …Beyond the Body. NuMen... More > ‘Dream’, Casting forth their intellects while cryogenically frozen to control distant Shells scattered through the Red Worlds, allowing them to work for the benefit of all NuManity and also to rid their minds of the vestiges of unwanted ‘human’ emotions. When they wake they remember nothing – a perfect system. …Beyond Dreams. But you are not the same. You are a Lucid, you remember every Dream vividly. Wracked by near-human emotions and faced with the full horrors of the Red System, only Unity can give you release, but at a price. You must work as an agent of Unity, freeing Obsessive Dreamers, battling Outsiders and eradicating the last dregs of humanity even as the rest of NuManity remains oblivious. Welcome to Ruby. Now close your eyes and sleep… www.fireruby.co.uk< Less
…Beyond Earth.
Earth is a distant memory. Welcome to the Red System.
…Beyond Humanity.
The human race is finished. NuManity rules the Red Worlds.
…Beyond the Body.
NuMen... More > ‘Dream’, Casting forth their intellects while cryogenically frozen to control distant Shells scattered through the Red Worlds, allowing them to work for the benefit of all NuManity and also to rid their minds of the vestiges of unwanted ‘human’ emotions. When they wake they remember nothing – a perfect system.
…Beyond Dreams.
But you are not the same. You are a Lucid, you remember every Dream vividly. Wracked by near-human emotions and faced with the full horrors of the Red System, only Unity can give you release, but at a price. You must work as an agent of Unity, freeing Obsessive Dreamers, battling Outsiders and eradicating the last dregs of humanity even as the rest of NuManity remains oblivious.
Welcome to Ruby. Now close your eyes and sleep… www.fireruby.co.uk< Less
…Beyond Earth. Earth is a distant memory. Welcome to the Red System. …Beyond Humanity. The human race is finished. NuManity rules the Red Worlds. …Beyond the Body. NuMen... More > ‘Dream’, Casting forth their intellects while cryogenically frozen to control distant Shells scattered through the Red Worlds, allowing them to work for the benefit of all NuManity and also to rid their minds of the vestiges of unwanted ‘human’ emotions. When they wake they remember nothing – a perfect system. …Beyond Dreams. But you are not the same. You are a Lucid, you remember every Dream vividly. Wracked by near-human emotions and faced with the full horrors of the Red System, only Unity can give you release, but at a price. You must work as an agent of Unity, freeing Obsessive Dreamers, battling Outsiders and eradicating the last dregs of humanity even as the rest of NuManity remains oblivious. Welcome to Ruby. Now close your eyes and sleep… www.fireruby.co.uk< Less
If even a person deserved a number of good things to happen to them it is Ruby.
Ruby began her life in a wheelchair and she was destined to remain there for the rest of her life, but things began to... More > happen to her, exciting things as well as surprising things and she was to both enjoy them as well as be surprised by them.
She was to share her life with a certain someone, not the one she expected, but one who would challenge her and cause her to do things she would never do on her own.
Share her life story with a loved one and you too will come to appreciate life a little more.
Enjoy the story of RUBY,RUBY,RUBY.< Less
