Biography & Memoirs on page 7

Faith tells us that no matter what lies ahead of us, God is already there!

Sam Gay defied the challenges of the mid-1900s—the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and two World Wars— to provide for his family. He and his wife and four children followed destitute Oklahoma farmers, and was one of 60 lucky enough to secure membership at Casa Grande Valley Farms, a farming cooperative part of Roosevelt’s New Deal, in Coolidge, Arizona. Although membership came with a home and steady income, the project offered no opportunity for his children, prompting two of his sons to enlist in the military. Sam learned that one of his boys was missing in action after Army Major General Edward P. King surrendered to Japanese General Masaharu Homma at Bataan, Philippines. That same y ...

A short military history of Captain Henry Wirz; includes diary entries by Wirz while his trial was in progress.

The McCune Mansion in Salt Lake City, Utah

Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1925, Howard Robbins tells his life story of living in a three-decker apartment, marrying the love of his life, buying a home in Auburn, Massachusetts, and adopting his sister-in-laws two children, as well as raising his own two boys. Mr. Robbins memoirs touches the heart of the reader has he brings you back to stories of childhood pranks, serving overseas in World War II, and dancing with his beloved wife, Dorothy. This memoir was edited by his granddaughter, Lesa (Robbins) McWalters. McWalters lives in Millbury, Massachusetts with her husband, Tom, and their four growing children.

This book is based on the actual arrest of author Marlys J. Waters on September 24, 2016 at age 71 during a verbal altercation with county law enforcement in the small town of Nemaha,Sac County, Iowa where she grew up. The circumstances are so ridiculous that Marlys had trouble controlling laughter mixed with rage while trying to explain what had happened and what the solution should be. Because there was no accident and the hazardous conditions that led to her near head-on collision were deemed legal, a Sac County Deputy Sheriff tried to close the case. Marlys disagreed to ignoring a situation that put Nemaha resident's lives in danger due to an unnecessary obstacle placed on a ...

Memoir from Antonina Pecoraro Carpenter, the child of Italian/Sicilian/Albanian peasant immigrants to the USA.