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This book is a compilation of the senior class group photos from Nescopeck High School (Nescopeck, PA) from 1903-1967. These photos were displayed in the main hall. Since we had “open” lunch hours and many evening school events, the whole community had these photos available to view (people frozen in an earlier time--parents, aunts and uncles, neighbors, friends, teachers, or anyone else we knew). They were never vandalized. Once the school merged with the Berwick Area School District, the photos were taken down and put into storage. This book was published in an effort to bring them back to the community to share once again with families reminiscing about NHS. The photos have been digit ...

A personal account of the land wars to save the farmland in Fauquier County, Virginia.

On October 14, 1944, Joe Ostrander, 1st Lt. United States Army Air Corp, dropped his eggs in the early morning breakfast line at his Air Force base in southern Italy. He thought, "oh well, I'll just get some more tomorrow". His next eggs would be seven months away, as that morning his B-24 Liberator was shot down while bombing oil refineries over Ploesti, Romania. Join Joe as he takes us on his harrowing journey behind enemy lines. It's the stuff Hollywood movies are made of - except it's all TRUE.

From the mountains of Wyoming, a river flows across Montana, scattering seeds along the way. Somewhere on the eastern plateau of the Great Northern Plains, the last of the seeds wash up onto the river bank. There, in a foreign habitat, they take root and grow into tall, white-barked trees crowned by yellow leaves. Indian legend calls it the Spirit Grove. In 1879, homesteader Silas Rye, discovers the unlikely grove and claims the land on which they stand. Weathering years of drought and hardship, he creates Aspen Grove Ranch. His granddaughter, Fanny, struggles to hold onto the ranch through two World Wars, the Vietnam conflict, and the attack on 9/11. Drawing her strength from the mystic ...

This book is a partial chronology and a list of reflections about some of the people, events, activities, and experiences that shaped my life, the lives of my 13 siblings, and numerous cousins. It is also a brief history of our journey.

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 ...

Having grown up as the son of the last private owner of Bonneyville Mills in Northern Indiana, Carl Mauck and his sister Carol Jean had an idyllic childhood there. Although there have been numerous articles in newspapers and periodicals through the years, no writer has ever told the complete story or done justice to the lives of the men and women who have kept Bonneyville so vivid in the minds and hearts of the residents of Elkhart County and Northern Indiana. Even in a biography preface of Edward Bonney, who built the Mill in 1837, there was no mention of Bonney's life in "our" Bonneyville. This book which compiles and shares previously unpublished photos and information about the Mill, ...

Kentucky natives wrote this book about how five generations of their family have enjoyed Kentucky's State Parks. Practical tips are provided about how your family can enjoy the parks. In addition, the book included a concise history of the Park System's development from 1924 to 2022.

The names of over 240 horses of the Civil War and riders including interesting Cavalry and Civil War anecdotes. Over 140 photographs of horses.

This is the History of the town of Garfield, Utah which is situated just West of Magna, Utah. The town began it's history in 1905, and ended in 1957.