A detailed photo history of the town of Glendale, New York.
In a fast paced easily readable style, the book uses more than 18- captioned photographs to tell the story of this unusual town with a rural atmosphere located just 6 miles from Manhattan. Surrounded by cemeteries and rich in German history, the town was once known as the playground of New York City with its picnic parks and outdoor beer gardens. Today it is a large community of 80,000+ people intent on keeping the traditions that gave it a small town feel in spite of its proximity to one of the world's largest urban centers.
The authors of Savannah: Brokers, Bankers and Bay Lane: Inside the Slave Trade (Civil War Savannah), received the 2012 Award for Excellence in Research from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The Award was issued by then Georgia Secretary
325 letters my father wrote to my mother during his time in World War II.
Woven together in a timeline of events of three of his brothers, 5 brothers-in-law, and one cousin, all 10 of them were in WWII at the same time.
