Swimming To Yaphank And Back
Swimming To Yaphank And Back

Author: Anita Halpern

Publisher: Anita Halpern

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 061532181X

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This memoir is an intimate personal portrait of a daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, and artist. It is also an engaging chronicle of ethnic, New York, and American history. Whether they're about poverty or wealth, sickness or health, or family troubles or romance, Anita's stories will resonate with many readers who grew up in immigrant families that both embraced mainstream American life, and differed from it. From beginning to end, the questions of identity and relationship that Anita grapples with highlight familiar push-pull tensions in the struggle for success, personal independence and self-fulfillment.

Yaphank
Yaphank

Author: Tricia Foley

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0738592951

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Known for its sawmills and gristmills, Yaphank was established in 1726 on the banks of the Carmans River on Long Island. Called Millville until 1844, it was then named Yaphank, "bank of the river." Its two lakes mark the boundaries of the historic district, with Main Street winding between them. Though the mills are long gone, many of the period homes from the 18th and 19th centuries remain, illustrating the history of the village and those who lived there. From the early days of the American Revolution, patriots marched on the Tallmadge Trail, and later, its young men went to fight for the Union cause in the Civil War. In 1871, Suffolk County's first almshouse was built to take care of the less fortunate. As World War I rumblings were heard, nearby Camp Upton-- where Irving Berlin wrote the musical Yip, Yip, Yaphank--drew thousands of soldiers.

The Backyard Book
The Backyard Book

Author: Tricia Foley

Publisher: Studio Books

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780140100457

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For relaxing, for gardening, and for entertaining, backyards enhance our lives as well as our homes. In this book more than 300 gorgeous photographs show the diversity of American yards. Features an extensive directory of mail-order sources and covers suppliers of everything from birdhouses to furniture to gazebos. Full color throughout.

Fragments, World War II
Fragments, World War II

Author: Walt Dierks

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1644242702

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Walt Dierks illuminates the everyday lives and adventures of young kids coming of age in Brooklyn during World War II. The main goal of most of them: get out of the house. The street was where the action was. It could be a stickball game featuring a pink Spaldeen and a broomstick or hooking a ride on a passing trolley car. There were other diversions, some perfectly legal, some bordering or stepping over into forbidden territory. The war years offered an environment of added responsibility alo

Hour of the Cat
Hour of the Cat

Author: Peter Quinn

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2022-02-08

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1531500811

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It’s just another murder, one of the hundreds of simple homicides in 1939: A spinster nurse is killed in her apartment; a suspect is caught with the murder weapon and convicted. Fintan Dunne, the P.I. lured onto the case and coerced by conscience into unraveling the complex setup that has put an innocent man on Death Row, will soon find that this is a murder with tentacles which stretch far beyond the crime scene . . . to Nazi Germany, in fact; following it to the end leads him into a murder conspiracy of a scope that defies imagination. The same clouds are rolling over Berlin, where plans for a military coup are forming among a cadre of Wehrmacht officers. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Military Intelligence, is gripped by a deadly paralysis: He is neither with the plotters nor against them. Joining them in treason would violate every value he holds as an officer. Betraying the plotters to the Gestapo Chief, Reinhard Heydrich, might just forsake the country’s last hope to avert utter destruction and centuries of shame. Heydrich is suspicious. With no limits to Hitler’s manic pursuit of territorial expansion, with crimes against the people candy-coated as racial purification, the “hour of the cat” looms when every German conscience must make a choice. When Canaris receives an order to assist in a sinister covert operation on foreign shores, his hour has come. Hour of the Cat is a stunning achievement: tautly suspenseful, hauntingly memorable, and brilliantly authentic.

Tricia Foley Life/Style
Tricia Foley Life/Style

Author: Tricia Foley

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2015-09-29

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0847846415

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Designer and lifestyle authority Tricia Foley illustrates her approach to creating elegantly pared-down environments for the home and work space. Designer Tricia Foley is best known for her timeless classical style, characterized by clean lines, natural materials, and vintage furnishings—from flea-market finds to antiques—and a palette of calming hues of cream, ivory, and white. In this book, Foley addresses such aspects of home design as selecting the perfect shade of white, setting up the pantry, bringing collected objects together, creating artful tabletops, organizing the home office, and much more. A collector—of china, of linens, of books—she explains that the only way to keep harmony is through editing. The designer provides a treasure trove of useful ideas, from her favorite storage products and essential items for the guest room to seasonal entertaining ideas and holiday decor. Foley’s romantic Long Island, New York, property—consisting of an eighteenth-century farmhouse and several outbuildings—serves as her personal laboratory and reflects a simple and well-designed style inherited from the basic tenets of Shaker design. Beautifully photographed, this inspiring book is a must-have for design-savvy individuals who desire a simple, but stylish, lifestyle.