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Facebook goes bust and a new social media giant called Chat Junction takes its place. Much of the story takes place as dialog in the form of private messages back and forth between the major and minor characters as they deal with their various life issues. New relationships are formed as old ones also enter the fray along with some unsavory characters bent on mayhem both social and physical. The story is timely in the sense that it deals with contemporary social and governmental issues and the implications of both. The small insets on the cover speak of the action as people try to take control their lives, seeking alternate directions and in some cases delete people both virtually and physically.
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Is the house a portal to the past or portent of the future? Jason Graham and Martha Conklin, each bearing deep emotional scars from their past, embark on a fascinating and frightening journey.
Seeking closure to their memories, will they find a more important mission to pursue?
This is short novel spanning a very long time.
A time perhaps that never was and never will be again.
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THE normally comforting shapes
in the knotty pine paneling tormented eight-year old Jason, as he lay awake reliving the nightmarish day of rage and torment at the hands of his mother. Suddenly, he remembered the loose panel in the back of his closet. Sliding out of bed quietly, he slid open the door and reached in to feel for it -- but all he felt was a solid wall.
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Following the premature death of his wife,
Earl Garnett, a professional writer, decides to drive across America. Along the way, he discovers the country, as he never imagined it.
Soon, cryptic writings appear on his laptop, often coinciding with roadside memorials that lead him into the darker sides of the road. Ultimately, he must decide whether or not to follow the prompting of these haunting passages and accept the consequences.
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THE SOCIAL MEDIA JUNKIE
Call me Ishmael - Just like that fellow in Melville’s famous novel, Moby Dick. Better yet, just call me Bob, because that’s my name, or at least what my friends call me. I have many friends because I am a social media junkie.
One day I stumbled onto unfathomable power, available at my fingertips on a keyboard. Dark people pursue me wanting that power not even knowing how to use it, nor if to use it.
This is my story. It is a bit odd, but then, my friends tend to believe I am a bit odd. Now that I think about it, they might be right.
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He looked down at his stained, age-spotted and wrinkled hands, covered with scars, reminders of old accidents and wondered how much time had passed and how much he had left.
He had always been proud of his hands. They had been dexterous and talented, supple and sensitive. Now they were relics of times gone by.
As the nicotine took hold, he remembered his
purpose for the day.
He had to kill J.D. Bekins.
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While each short long story or long short story features different settings and the struggles of the main characters, all touch upon government overreach, corruption and power.
THE SOCIAL MEDIA JUNKIE
Call me Ishmael - Just like that fellow in Melville’s famous novel, Moby Dick. Better yet, just call me Bob, because that’s my name, or at least what my friends call me. I have many friends because I am a social media junkie.
One day I stumbled onto unfathomable power, available at my fingertips on a keyboard. Dark people pursue me wanting that power not even knowing how to use it, nor if to use it.
This is my story. It is a bit odd, but then, my friends tend to believe I am a bit odd. Now that I think about it, they might be right.
THE TIME TRAVELER’S NEPHEW
In 1895, H. G. Wells wrote a story called ‘The Time Machine.’ It soon became a classic of science fiction, but was it really fiction?
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GHOST WRITER
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Memoirs of an anonymous author, recounting encounters with ghosts garnered over a lifetime. They span many time-periods and travel across much of America. It includes some famous, infamous and not so famous people and places.
Photo illustrated in many cases from the archives of the author.
If you believe in ghosts, you might think that by the twenty-first century, billions of ghosts should be roaming the world by now. There are not. The vast majority of humans simply die, spending eternity taking the proverbial dirt nap. However, like all things in the universe, there are exceptions. I should know. Having worked with quite a few, I can also tell you that they pay quite well and some have made me fabulously wealthy.
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Adam Barthold is a deeply flawed man haunted by the mysterious Arahm Tuit. He travels from upstate New York to the hills of Ash Fork, Arizona where he hopes to start a new life but instead finds love, danger and watches the world come tumbling down in red ruin, little knowing he has an important part to play in the future of human kind.
Although this is an apocalyptic story, you will find NO zombies, alien invaders, government conspiracies, universal plagues or any other such nonsense. It addresses what is a more imminent threat to humankind. Further, it is told from a very limited point of view as experienced by the principal character, Adam Barthold.
Unlike some such story lines, the book focuses more on the characters, their flaws, fortitude and family-like relationships. It is both a love story and a story of deep friendships often crossing over racial, age and cultural boundaries. The action scenes are not stereotypic hollywood hyped depictions either.
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THE TIME TRAVELER’S NEPHEW
and other stories.
In 1895, H. G. Wells wrote a story called
‘The Time Machine.’ It soon became a classic of
science fiction, but was it really fiction?
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THE TIMEOUT CHAIR
Time travel has captured the imagination
of humanity for years. Many are the stories and many
methods. Only one actually worked.
BACK TO THE 1890’s
A Chicago advertising man engages the services of
a medium to travel back in time to find the
truth about a notorious ancestor.
SERGEANT BACHMAN
When traditional methods fail, a man searching
for information about the father, he never knew turns to other means and embarks on a frightening journey back in time.
163 PAGES - 48,645 WORDS
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The 21st century world went tumbling down in red ruin as foretold by the mysterious Arahm Tuit. Survivors gathered and forged new civilizations. Centuries later, led by a clan chief and a scout named Oneonta, that fragile civilization faces a grave threat to their very existence from peoples that did not learn from the root causes of the fall of human kind. One man, believing that a small glass elephant is the key to power and dominance seeks to take possession of it.
Is it - or simply a glass elephant?
Rip-roaring action and adventure in the
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AIELLA - A sensuous Utopian life in an alien world goes into chaos for reasons beyond understanding or control. Also a compelling love story beyond two planes of existence. Action, battles and conflicts with scientific morality. A short dive into a deeper dilemma.
DREAMSPLACES - Transylvania pays a visit to two brothers, each as different in character as night and day.
THE TIME OUT CHAIR - Time travel has captured the imagination of humanity for years. Many are the stories and many the methods. Only one actually worked.
REQUIEM FOR A PLANET - A cosmic error is rectified on a tiny planet in a small galaxy. The planet some call Earth. *
A Novella (short novel) and three other stories with a different take and view of science fiction.
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TRUE, SEMI-TRUE & TRUE LIES
Lies can hurt. Lies can kill. The most dangerous often the ones we tell ourselves. Four tales of addiction about fictional and not-so-fictional people and places.
THE TRAIN FROM TUCUMCARI
Max had been to Clayton, New Mexico many times by car and stayed at the Eklund hotel often. This time, perhaps his last, he came on the train from Tucumcari.
BOOZE & BETRAYAL
Two love affairs and two betrayals. The story of a man with two consuming loves. The one pushed him further down a dark road and altered the course of his life, and the other, his one true love that almost destroyed him.
KAYLEE NIGHTBIRD
A young Native American girl - a victim of drugs, alcohol and sexual abuse, finds her own way out.
THE TAVERN
They say you can never go back, and maybe you shouldn’t. Twelve years after he left his hometown a man returns to visit his dying father. One afternoon he takes a trip down memory lane and perhaps finds a date with destiny.
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A deeply flawed man finds his greatest love in the remote hills of Northern Arizona. Together, they face mortal dangers and struggle to survive as they watch the world they know fall into red ruin. Much later, he must decide if he can accept another type of love as a culture in a different form evolves.
Two centuries later his descendant finds an unlikely love amidst enemies who have come to destroy the fragile society that remains.
An apocalyptic story laced with love, and deep friendships often crossing cultural and racial lines. Adventure, action and touch of mysticism, round out a sweeping epic.
Novel 344 pages - 111,400 words
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Facebook goes bust and a new social media giant called Chat Junction takes its place. Much of the story takes place as dialog in the form of private messages between the major and minor characters as they deal with their various life issues. New relationships are formed as old ones also enter the fray along with some unsavory characters bent on mayhem both social
and physical.
THE HOUSE IN THE CLOSET
Is the house a portal to the past or portent of the future? Jason Graham and Martha Conklin, each bearing deep emotional scars from their past, embark on a fascinating and frightening journey. Seeking closure to their memories, will they find a more important mission to pursue?
2035 – THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
A deeply flawed man haunted by the mysterious Arahm Tuit. He travels from upstate New York to the hills of Ash Fork, Arizona where he hopes to start a new life but instead finds love, danger and watches the world come tumbling down in red ruin, little knowing he has an important part to play in the future of human kind.
Three of my best novels at a bargain price.
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DARK
Three dark stories.
Not recommended reading for the
Dark of night or the faint of heart.
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Following the premature death of his wife, Earl Garnett, a professional writer, decides to drive across America. Along the way, he discovers the country, as he never imagined it. Soon, cryptic writings appear on his laptop, often coinciding with roadside memorials that lead him into the darker sides of the road. Ultimately, he must decide whether or not to follow the prompting of these haunting passages and accept the consequences.
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DREAMSPLACES
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Baseball FUNdamentals
When he was a kid, Ray loved baseball
and like most young boys, dreamed of making it to the major leagues.
The only drawback was that he
sucked at it.
Billionaire Raymond Farnsworth and his new Franchise, The Las Vegas Lightnings turn the professional baseball world on its ear as they return to what they call “Baseball FUNdamentals” – They mix old-time nostalgia and values, crazy hijinx,
pranks, public relations stunts, Las Vegas style entertainment, and make a fortune while doing it.
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Plus excerpts about youth baseball from the author’s book:
Everything I Needed to Know about Life, I Learned
on a Baseball field (well, almost)
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baseball films noted in the story
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THE IMMORTAL
SERGEANT BACHMAN
From Germany to Okinawa 1946-1953
When traditional methods fail, a man searching for information about the father he never knew and listed as K.I.A. by the US Army in Korea turns to other means and embarks on a fascinating but frightening journey.
A slightly fictionalized story based on true stories from the journal of an American service man 1945-1953
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The Appendix also offers the history
of the Constabulary in Germany and the revolt
at Geoji (Koji) Island during the Korean war.
Although this is partially a work of fiction, the historical references are accurate and many of the events and details are based on true stories and memoirs, found in a detailed journal that I inherited from my late father John L. Green Jr. upon his death in 2011. Of course, the opening and ending framing device is also fictitious as are the names of the main characters. In this journal, my father never disclosed the true nature of the mission to Manchuria, if he even knew it nor did he ever speak of it to either my brother or me, a testament to his ability to uphold his reputation as “a man who can keep his mouth shut.” Likewise, the shooting on the Czech border was something he spoke about only in general terms and only to my brother when he was very old. The one love scene regarding him and my mother is also entirely fictitious - I think. His views on the military, sometimes very cynical, and especially regarding the officers and men I heard many times as a boy.
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HISTORIC FICTION & NON-FICTION:
An eclectic collection of short stories and novellas
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Seven remarkable stories inserting fictional and not-so-fictional characters into true western history and locations. They take place from 1680 to the 1800s and through to present day including myths, legends, greed, gold, life, love and glory. The author, who has lived in Arizona for over two decades, has been to all of the locations, often multiple times and studied the history in depth.
The appendix gives brief overviews of the true history of the times and places.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
GOLDFIELD
GUNFIGHT AT THE ESCALANTE
REVOLT AT THE TAOS PUEBLO
THE LAST CAMEL IN NEW MEXICO
SELIGMAN STOWAWAY
KWI-KA-KIKINEE
BACK TO THE 1890’s
APPENDIX
(history and notes- not anatomy)
The Taos uprising in 1680
The Other Town too Tough to Die –
Ash Fork, Arizona
INTRODUCTION
The great American southwest has wealth of history well before the coming of Europeans in the 16th century. Unfortunately, first hand stories of those times are rare, usually only in verbal form. From that time forward, stories, legends and myths abound. Seekers of gold and silver, trappers, explorers, wild-west gunfights, cowboys, saloons, ghost towns, lost gold mines, wars, frontier towns, stagecoaches, railroads, early automobiles, Indian spirits, ghost dancers and Jackalopes are only a handful.
Many of the stories contained in this anthology are from times before statehood. Some are what are termed ‘Historic Fiction’ based on true events and places. Some are fiction and in the appendix, you will find articles that are truly history. They were times of adventure, conflict, countless hardships, toil, tragedy and perseverance. The stories contained here reflect on all those realities.
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LOLA, SAM AND THE JACKALOPE
Heartwarming tales of adventure, deep friendships and courage. For young and young-at-heart readers.
(AGES 11-12 AND UP)
Two dogs, one from the city, the other from the wilds of Northern Arizona, become best friends and share countless adventures.
After helping a mother jackrabbit they face grave danger and have an unexpected meeting with the mythical Jackalope.
As told from the dog Lola's point of view - Illustrated with real-life photos. Also contains a brief history of Ash Fork Arizona - "The other town too tough to die."
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Two love affairs and two betrayals. The story of a man with two consuming loves. The one pushed him further down a dark road and altered the course of his life, and the other, his one true love that almost destroyed him.
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AND THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT
A cosmic error is rectified on an infinitesimal planet in a tiny solar system on the fringe of a small galaxy. Some call it Earth.
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MALBIHN
Avarice and adventurers are dangerous companions. Hired to seek out a fortune and a myth, a rough-cut, unsavory man finds more than he bargained for in the Arizona wilderness.
4035
Rip roaring action and adventure in the best traditions of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Andre Norton two thousand years after the fall of civilization in the sequel to 2035: The Elephant in the Room.
152 pages - three short stories.
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SHORTS & BRIEFS
SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY
Seven of my favorite short stories
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SERGEANT BACHMAN
When traditional methods fail, a man searching for information about the father he never knew and listed as K.I.A. by the US Army turns to other means and embarks on a fascinating but frightening journey.
ALIEN HEREDITY
An erotically utopian life in an alien world goes into chaos for reasons beyond understanding or control with a heaping spoonful of Karma thrown in.
THE TAVERN
They say you can never go back and maybe you shouldn’t. Thirty-two years after he left his hometown, Jonathan Moran returns to visit his dying father and spends a long afternoon driving down “memory lane” only to find a portal to the past and maybe a date with destiny.
AND THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT
A cosmic error is rectified on an infinitesimal planet in a tiny solar system on the fringe of a small galaxy. Some call it Earth.
MALBIHN
Avarice and adventurers are dangerous companions. Hired to seek out a fortune and a myth, a rough-cut, unsavory man finds more than he bargained for in the Arizona wilderness.
THE LITTLEST SNOWMAN ON ROUTE 66
When her family moves from Ash Fork to Flagstaff,
little Wendee Goldman has a hard time adjusting until she accidentally applies a little magic and finds a true friend.
STOWAWAY SUZI
Jonnie Halloran, a widower raising his 12 year old son Luke gets a big surprise when he returns to their ranch in Ash Fork.
266 pages - short stories and novellas
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CONTENTS
THE BEARAZONA BEARS
A family of bears learns what giving is really all about.
THE LAST GUNFIGHT IN ASH FORK
Young Jordie Conboy learns from his grandfather that legends and heroes are seldom what they seem.
FEETIE PAJAMAS IN OLD ARIZONA
A little boy’s love for his sister reaps an unusual reward with consequences that are unforeseen.
THE LITTLEST SNOWMAN ON ROUTE 66
When her family moves from Ash Fork to Flagstaff,
little Wendee Goldman has a hard time adjusting until she accidentally applies a little magic and finds a true friend.
STOWAWAY SUZI FROM SELIGMAN
Jonnie Halloran, a widower raising his 12 year old son Luke gets a big surprise when he returns to their ranch in Ash Fork.
LOLA, SAM AND THE JACKALOPE
Two dogs who are best friends help a mother jackrabbit and have an unexpected meeting with the mythical Jackalope.
APPENDIX
A brief history of Ash Fork
Notes on story telling.
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FICTION OR PREDICTION?
An unsettling view of America as it could become as seen through the eyes of many ordinary people including a reporter, three old friends with widely different backgrounds and a sweet, but smart librarian in the tiny town of Ash Fork, Arizona. A short novel about big issues.
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Joseph Carpenter
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An eclectic collection of short stories set in the Southwestern United States.The stories in this anthology take place in many eras from the times of the ‘old west’to the present day. None are stereotype shoot-em up slapping leather, punching cows wild west stories. Written by several well-known authors,they run a gamut from literary fiction, to science fiction and beyond.
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THE TRAIN FROM TUCUMCARI
John Green
Max had been to Clayton, New Mexico by car many times and stayed at the Eklund hotel often. This time, perhaps the last, he came on the train from Tucumcari.
THE STRANGERS
James Pyles
In 1887 Cedar City, Utah a visiting reporter from San Francisco sees an amazing event in the sky. With a group of people from the town, including the Sheriff, a Judge, and a doctor, they discover an amazing accident that will change not only themselves, but their descendants for decades.
KADEE ROSE
P.A. O’Neil
Few words conjure up images of the Southwest more than ‘Rodeo.’ A contemporary tale of a rodeo family.
SHADOWS OF THE ANASAZI
Gabriella Balcom
Trying to help a friend, Ronnie travels to Colorado. She learns about the Anasazi, ancient pueblo-dwellers, and hopes to find a missing woman. What she discovers is beyond her wildest dreams.
THE VOICE IN THE WIND
Jay Crowley
In Jacks Valley, outside of Carson City, Nevada, the Voice in the Wind saw and communicated with many spirits and helped many souls.
GRANDMOTHER OF THE DESERT
Edward C. Hartshorn
They were prepared for the hardships and dangers of the Sonoran Desert. Then they met Grandmother.
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TWO AUTHORS, John Green and Eddie Hartshorn
team up with four tales of murder – or are they really? There's more than one way to die and more than one way to kill. A grieving grandmother forms an unlikely coalition. A homicide detective faces wrenching choices. An author deals with the death of his identity and a young Native American girl dies once but murders three times. When is murder murder? Sometimes it's difficult to decide.
Two novellas (short novels) and two short stories that will push you to ponder the answer.
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TAOS UPRISING
AND OTHER STORIES OF THE WEST
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John Franklin Green and Edward C. Hartshorn
TAOS UPRISING
Set amidst the true story of the revolt in Taos, New Mexico in 1680, a young man of the Pueblo, counseled by his grandfather,
Eah Walla must decide what a man should do.
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THE LAST GUNFIGHT IN ASH FORK
Young Jordie Conboy learns that legends and heroes
are seldom what they seem.
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THE STRANGER
In the end, everyone left Angel Rock - one way or another. None would ever forget how the first death came - swift and without warning on the first night a stranger rode into town.
APPENDIX
Includes a detailed history of the New Mexico revolt
and a brief history of Ash Fork, Arizona
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NAPOLEON & LEE
Great Captains of Military History
or just Lucky Bastards?
This concise book does not cover every battle or campaign they participated in but instead focuses on those where the dice were tossed -- sometimes recklessly or desperately and what the result was or could have been. Most military historians as well as the public in general consider both Lee and Napoleon to be great commanders. This book examines whether or not that is true.
Written also to appeal to readers who have only a general interest in history as well as those who have read extensively.
Copiously illustrated with custom maps, photos and vintage illustrations.
Size: 6” x 9” - 76 pages – 14,000 words.
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OBSERVATIONS
Observations on the Passing Scene was a popular newspaper column by Thomas Sowell that I read almost daily. The late Andy Rooney was also a favorite of mine. (See the appendix for some of their quotes and others). Some observations contained here came from family and friends. Most have come from experiences and memories by the author of this book collected over the past sixty some-odd years.
Many reach back in time as far as antiquity, but most written about things that have happened in the last few decades.
The observations take many forms and articles included extracted from my books published over the past several years. Other missives here written, in various forms and venues, as recently as a few days before this book published. This book is a sequel to “A Little Out There” published a few years ago although with a slightly less humorous tone.
The purpose is not to preach, but instead to give you something to think about and ultimately decide what your own observational truths are. Perhaps this might also encourage you to record some of your own observations to ponder or pass on.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
STARTING OUT AS A CHILD
POLITICS AND OTHER FORMS OF INSANITY
HISTORY – THE FORGOTTEN SUBJECT
THE ESSENCE OF CREATIVITY
THE REAL INCONVENIENT TRUTH
SOCIAL MEDIA
POPULAR CULTURE
PARENTAL WISDOM
APPENDIX
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TOMMY POLITO’S TAVERN
This is a story of a town the way it was and never will be again. It was a tavern, like thousands of others across America that shaped many a memory and many a life.
It is also the story of a man, long gone but never forgotten.
Parts of this book originally published
in the novella Tommy Polito’s Tavern and
A Baby Boomers History of Guilderland, NY
- Volumes One and Two.
114 pages
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THEY SAY that you can never go back, and maybe you should't. Twelve years after he left his hometown of Guilderland, NY. he returns to visit his dying father. One afternoon along the way he takes a trip down memory lane and perhaps finds a date with destiny.
HE PULLED HIS 2011 Chevy Cruz rental car into the large and very empty dirt lot on the corner of US route 20 and state route 146 and killed the ignition. Opening the door, he slid out and lit a cigarette. As he slowly walked toward the center of the lot, his snakeskin boots kicked up dust and his Stetson hat shielded his eyes from the late afternoon sun. Passing cars and the few pedestrians hurrying along their way paid no attention to him despite his attire that was way out of place.
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THE REAL INCONVENIENT TRUTH
POLLUTION, GLOBAL WARMING, DISEASE, WAR, FAMINE, CORRUPTION, GENETIC DEFECTS, DECAYING URBAN AREAS, AND RELIGIOUS ZEALOTRY.
These are only a few problems facing humanity
today but are they the largest or most terrifying?
Most were predicted and the cause identified over a half century ago by a man long dead.
Long before computers, the internet, social media and the technological explosion of the 21st century he cataloged, graphed, spoke and wrote about it.
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Faded photographs, covered now with lines and creases, tickets torn in half, memories of times and places…
INTRODUCTION
The town of Guilderland has a long, rich history dating even before its incorporation in 1803. This well documented. For those interested, Images of America – Guilderland, NY by Alice Begley and Mary Ellen Johnson is a good read.
For the baby boomer generation however, the town holds a different history, not covered in any textbook. We did not consider it history at the time because we were living in it. Places we lived, loved, learned, worked and played, taken for granted, as though nothing would ever change. Those days from the 1950’s to 1980’s, were times of great change, not only in the culture of America, but also as reflected in the town.
The town of Guilderland, a mostly rural suburb coupled with the hamlet of Guilderland Center and the village of Altamont, nestled quietly between Albany and Schenectady. McKownville, Westmere, and the eastern part of the hamlet of Guilderland proper, closest to Albany saw the first rise in housing developments. Altamont was a self-contained village. The town was just beginning to move into full suburban mode. Crowing roosters, farmer’s fields, road stands and empty fields, streams and woods, replaced by ice cream shops, diners, bowling alleys bars, burger joints, housing developments and schools. To coin a phrase, it might have been be called – “burbrural.”
Like much of history, it didn’t last long. Pictorial evidence is scarce. What little there is resides in old photo albums or shoe boxes. And in this book. The day of digital images from cameras, phones or tablets was decades away. Who gave any thought to snapping a photo of Carvel, Frosty, The Penguin or Dutcher’s ice cream? We ate, drank and caroused at Fonda’s, Hopper’s, Tommy Polito’s, Dell’s, The Late ‘n’ Lazy or the Village Drummer. Take photos? – no way.
Few pictures taken, because little thought was put into these and many other places that filled our lives and memories. If photos are scarce, memories, stories and anecdotes remain. The photos and stories garnered from many sources. Some from the author’s personal archives, others from the Facebook page – You know you’re from Guilderland when… Many are from people, like the author, who grew up in town and in some cases still reside there or nearby. Photos may fade but memories remain intact - for the most part.
Please enjoy the walk…
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
GUILDERLAND
WESTMERE
FORT HUNTER
McKOWNVILLE
GUILDERLAND CENTER
ALTAMONT
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APPENDIX
ACKNOWLEGEMENTS
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This book is the requested sequel to the well-received original volume: "A Baby Boomers History of Guilderland" published in 2017. New stories and new photographs. In contrast to the first book, this one focuses more on personal memories than geography and landmarks. The first volume had 34 contributors of stories and graphics. The one has over 60!
Places we lived, loved, learned, worked and played, taken for granted, as though nothing would ever change. Those days from the 1950’s to 1980’s, were times of great change, not only in the culture of America, but also as reflected in the town. Like much of history, it didn’t last long.
In addition, it has a lengthy chapter about The Guilderland Players at Guilderland Central High School.
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This book is the last sequel to the well-received books, A Baby Boomers History of Guilderland, and A Baby Boomers History of Guilderland Part II published in 2017 and early 2018. Unlike the first two volumes, this isn’t organized by sections of town because much of that was covered previously. People who contributed stories, anecdotes and photos (see appendix) are in individual sub-chapters. I have found or been given much new material covering the way it was, the way it is now, the way we were and where we are now.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE WAY IT WAS
AROUND TOWN
THE WAY WE WERE
SCHOOL DAZE
WHERE WE ARE NOW
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APPENDIX
ACKNOWLEGEMENTS
NOTES
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I STARTED OUT AS A CHILD
MONASTIC COLLEGE
ALCOHOL IS MY LIFE
BEING MARRIED, MARRIED & MARRIED
ON HAVING KIDS – OR NOT
CANINE COMPANIONS
BATHROOMS OF AMERICA
HUMOR IN UNIFORM
MEET THE NEIGHBORS
POLITICS AND OTHER FORMS OF INSANITY
COMMUNICATION IS THE PROBLEM TO THE ANSWER
GETTING OLDER SUCKS
RANDOM EVENTS
APPENDIX
(I STILL HAVE MINE BUT IT
HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS)
INTRODUCTION
THE TITLE of this book originated from a conversation I had with my eldest son a few years back. A widower late in life, I remarried and my two young adult sons acquired a stepmother. Soon I noticed that when they called home, they most often called my wife instead of me. When I asked my oldest son why that was, he responded, “No offense dad, but you can be a little out there.” He went on to say his stepmother, Wendy, was more down to earth and more able to answer his more practical and straightforward questions without drifting off topic or launching into a story he had heard countless times before. Thinking about this, I realized he was right.
My father, in his older years, had been much the same way. He had a story for every conversation and every call I made to him invariably went back in time, ending often with the mention of his favorite car – a 1949 Dodge with fluid drive. Dad would then pontificate on the reasons the auto industry perfidiously buried that particular transmission design. He too, was a little out there and even though he couldn’t remember what he had for breakfast, stories from thirty or forty years ago flowed freely. A ten-minute trip to the supermarket for three items took him at least an hour. He was a gregarious sort whose motto as eventually put on his grave in 2011 was, “Who’d you meet along the way.”
Two months before the end of his life, his body and mind failing, I had the opportunity during one of his lucid moments to tell him face-to-face what a great dad he was and rattled off a long list of things we had done together. His response was, “How do you remember all that shit?”
The apple didn’t roll too far from the tree.
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DESCENDANTS OF CONRAD KRESGE
THE STORY OF A SMALL TWIG
This is the story of two families. One founded an empire that at one time was the second largest retail store chain in North America. The other, a very small twig of that family tree, “scattered like a hand grenade,” all over America. The first family became obscenely rich. The other has a few nickels to rub together but is rich in experiences and travels.
We are all descendants of Conrad Kresge who came to America in the 1740’s. His great-great grandson, Sebastian Sperle Kresge, founded the S.S. Kresge Company in 1897 in Memphis Tennessee. His stores proliferated throughout the 20th century, eventually becoming Kmart, in 1962. Its rise and fall told from that time, until its predicted demise in 2018.
Their story parallels a unique time in American history starting near the beginning of the 20th century. Inventions like the automobile, telephone, airplane, phonograph, radio and motion pictures that would shape the coming century were in their infancy. Great industrial giants like, General Electric and the American Locomotive Company were coming into being following in the footsteps and eventually eclipsing the likes of the Rockefellers, Carnegies and Astor’s. America itself was growing and transforming from a mostly rural country to one of urban and suburban epicenters of new business empires. The people of America, both old stock and immigrants were changing and adapting to the new order of things – and perhaps things to come.
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Surviving and thriving in the graphic design, illustration and advertising world 1975-2016
Memoirs and a guide for those who are in the business, about to enter the business and those even thinking about entering the business.
This book also contains practical tips and advice from a professional creative director, art director, designer, illustrator and business owner for over forty years.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Technology
Advertising
The one-two-three Method
Typography
Outdoor advertising
Direct response advertising
Directory Advertising
Graphic design
Collateral
Package Design
Illustration
Web design
Career choices
Employee or self-employed
Business topics
Appendix and notes
This book dedicated to the memory
of the late Donald J. Moore Sr.
my first employer at D.J. Moore Advertising in NY
and from whom I learned so much.
He was a great professional,
a true gentleman and my mentor.
c. 1972 in his office.
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In its time Tombstone, Arizona was indeed a tough place, rowdy and lawless for the most part until the Earp brothers, Wyatt, Morgan and Virgil came to town. Whether they cleaned up the town or simply cleaned up financially, has been the subject of countless books, articles and essays. Regardless of those controversies, the Earp’s along with Wyatt’s friend Doc Holiday, a disreputable character in his own right, did take part in the famous “Gunfight at the OK Corral.” Many considered it more of an ambush or murder, but that is outside the scope of this book. It lasted eighteen minutes. Since then, the event and the participants (dead or alive) have been the subject of countless movies, television dramas, and books. Today, it is now reenacted, almost daily and businesses throughout town are devoted to the legend.
If that single event warrants the nickname “too tough to die,” so be it. However, there are other definitions of tough. Hard work, grit, sweat, perseverance, determination, adaptability and survival also define that word.
If so, Ash Fork deserves the name tough, for it has been exactly that for far longer. It was, and still is, tough because of all of the hardships, economic booms, busts and catastrophic fires in 1893, 1905, 1977 and 1987 it has endured. And that in an area of geography that is just plain tough to live on. Good times always followed by downright hard times, but the people have carried on to this day.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
EARLY HISTORY
THE GREAT WESTERN ROAD
THE RAILROADS
THE ESCALANTE
THE RANCHERS
THE MOTHER ROAD ROUTE 66
THE TOWN TODAY – TOUGH AS EVER
NEW RESIDENTS & OFF-GRID LIVING
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Everything I needed to know about life
I learned on a baseball field…
(well, almost)
Life lessons generously mixed with humor,
dust, tears, grass stains and the smell of leather.
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