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At four years of age, Jeffrey was holding to his mother's coat tails while she roamed the streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Annie was attempting to escape the expectations of society and the responsibilities of motherhood. Jeffrey only wanted the love of his mother and followed her everywhere in the streets. He had to forage for food and shelter while Annie was searching for the means to purchase her next "fix." Jeffrey would witness the stark reality of substance dependency without understanding the effects until his teen years. Annie was traveling south of the border into Mexico, when on a whim, she abandoned her five year old boy with some strangers on a bus ...

"Giant Hermit of the Back Woods" some folks called old Bill Smith. In days gone by, New York's Adirondack Mountains were home to many 'wild-looking characters', but few compared to Bill Smith! He was 6'4" tall and his grizzled beard trailed on the ground when he didn't have it tied up. His life story reads like a tall tale, but this mountain man was the real deal! This is the true story of the 'Bearded Wonder of the Adirondacks'!

Bohemian Skipper is a collection of stories that I have compiled after having spent more than three quarters of a century on three of our country's most famous rivers, the James and Appomattox in Virginia and the Niagara River that straddles New York an Ontario, Canada. This book is unique in two ways. first, each story stands alone, yet all 28 chapters will come together to tell a much larger and richer story. And secondly, as a child from age four years I would ride the tugboats that my dad skippered and learn many trades and crafts from old world shipwrights and fender makers. And in later years I would learn that my playground had been the town of Henricus, America's second English ...

I have often told my children and friends that after 50 years of being a minister’s wife, helping to raise eleven children and married to the same man for 66 years that I could undoubtedly write a book about some of my experiences. I want this book to be for my children and my friend to remember me by; I pray, by the grace of God it will be a blessing to them.

These entries on the Caring Bridge website were started when John was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. It helped to keep all of his many friends updated with his treatment. John never read the blog because he said he was living it! Glenna Mae Van Atta Anderson

Redo of the Children of Samuel Claridge - pictures changed from black & white to color.

These are the letters of Claude Robbins and Elaine Stevens over four months when Claude was serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the northeastern U.S. and Elaine was finishing high school in southern Utah.

If you had to write a fantastic story about a fascinating character who has superhero powers, which details would you include? The idea of this project started a few years ago on Facebook when people would engage in a 30 Days of Thanks project starting in November and carrying on thru Thanksgiving. They’d post something once per day that they were thankful for, like their family or their friends or their job or even their car. Normally, they'd quit after a couple days. Obviously, I didn't. One of my ideas was “30 Days of Dad”; an entire month filled with stories about my father, a former Navy SEAL in Vietnam who raised his family in Texas in peace, far from the riverbanks of the s ...

“Dollie” the autobiography of Minnie Adell Hollingshead Wadsworth “John Franklin Hollingshead” by Dollie Wadsworth “Ida Dionitia Lee” by Dollie Wadsworth “Brud” brief biography of Lafayette LeRoy Wadsworth Descendants pictures and family group information Ancestry in pedigree charts updated with family memories from 1997 51 pages Compiled by Helen Free VanderBeek 1973 Reprinted by LaRae Free Kerr M ED 2012 Cover design by Steve LeMmon