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He hitchhiked ten miles across two counties in pursuit of a high school diploma. However, after successfully completing the school year, he was still two credits short, and summer school didn't save him either. Despite Robert Smith's setbacks, he remained unyielding and upheld the values instilled in him by an African American community he calls a village. Eventually, Smith earned six degrees and became a decorated veteran, a professor, a magistrate, and a CEO. What My Village Did for Me: The Robert Smith Story explores how Robert Smith's village nurtured and shaped him for a life dedicated to service, both locally and globally. This is a story about the power of faith and family. It also invites readers to reflect on the reciprocal relationship they have with their communities.

This selection of twenty-seven sermons delivered by Bishop Robert Smith (1732-1801) from the pulpit of Charleston's oldest Episcopal church gives voice to an influential clergyman and his rhetoric in support of a colonial rebellion. The author suggests that Smith articulated a southern perspective of a righteous community in which church and state were inseparable in spirit and that this constituted a radically distinctive justification for the American Revolution.

Robert Smith was the most important and influential architect-builder in the American colonies. His major buildings were ornaments of Philadelphia, where he lived. But his reputation also brought him commissions from as far away as Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Shrewsbury, New Jersey, and Williamsburg, Virginia. Among his accomplishments were the steeple of Christ Church (1753-54), Nassau Hall at Princeton (1754-56), St. Peter's Church (1758-61), Zion Lutheran Church (1766-69), the Walnut Street Jail (1773-74), and Benjamin Franklin's House (1763-65). This book illuminates the role of the architect in the eighteenth century as designer and supervisor of construction, including the form of the contracts he signed and the difficulties he encountered in collecting his fees.

Instead of a prose account of his own views, veteran journalist and author, A. Robert Smith, uses the old-fashioned style of proverbs short, often punchy statements that are meaningful and often humorous. About half of the proverbs contained here express views on marriage, family relations, child behavior, and other essential topics. The other half includes proverbs by Ben Franklin and sayings from other popular figures, such as Shakespeare, Confucius, Schweitzer, Churchill, Eleanor and Teddy Roosevelt, the Buddha, Maya Angelou, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers. Nine of the Ten Commandments found in the Christian faith are included in "Robert's 101 Rules." as well as some comparable rules from all the major religions.

Frog Gig By: Robert Smith When journalist Jeff Stewart gets an anonymous call from a college student about endangered tree frogs, he does not think much of it. However, as he dives further into the lead, and becomes more and more entrenched in the movement and its various characters, he discovers that it goes much deeper than some little frogs, leading him on a chase to uncover a local government conspiracy and potentially an unsolved murder.