George's great love for his family and the outdoors comes across in the poems he's written. By preserving the memories of his family younger generations will know what a great heritage they have. Shane's Dragons is a fictional story about a young man who started his life on the footsteps of an orphanage and the many obstacles he encountered while reaching his goal of becoming a success in life.
Were there really four airports here? Was the Staten Island Airport shut down each night to ensure no peril to the patrons of the drive-in theater? Is there truly a 150 foot dormant tunnel under the harbor between Staten Island and Brooklyn with the entrance capped in Brooklyn? In the 1930's, Which of Staten Island's best known restaurateurs, bought a house across the street from his famous restaurant and built a 200-foot tunnel between the house and the restaurant so that he could safely carry the day's receipts from the restaurant to his home. Did President John Kennedy, sip coffee at the St. George ferry terminal? Can you believe that a famous Island milk company resorted to rowboats to delivery milk to areas from Oakwood to Midland Beach during some of the worst storms to every hit that area? Did Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley have a Wild West show in 1886 down at Erastina (Mariners Harbor)? In what year was a bomb actually exploded on a Staten Island Ferry?
There comes a special time in youth when the sheer excitement of driving a car means more than almost anything else you do. So alluring, you just can't wait until the next adventure. But driving means much more than simply getting behind the wheel. It is probably the most significant milestone on the path to adulthood. In a word, it's freedom! And so it was for Alice Trent and her trusty sidekick, Eric Swenson. While walking home from school one day, a series of unlikely events begin to unfold. Like dominoes, one discovery leads to another resulting in a delightful story that continues for the rest of their lives. Module A is a fictional and wholesome novella about a couple of kids discovering an abandoned Model-A and their adventure from resurrection to ownership that proceeded from there.
