Grandfather, Oneonta & Me

Grandfather, Oneonta & Me
Author: Jay Winn
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2016-05-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1365124908

This is an upgraded second edition of this book. it is a 60 year history of the the Delaware & Hudson Railroad at Oneonta, NY. The author was introduced to railroads through visiting the Oneonta yards and shops with his Grandfather in the 1950's. This fascination continued for 6 decades. This book records the author's personal experiences watching trains at Oneonta over the next 60 years. This story also chronicles the parallel history of the Delaware & Hudson railroad activities in Oneonta from its heyday in the steam era to its final demise as an important railroad center.

Grandfather, Oneonta & Me

Grandfather, Oneonta & Me
Author: Jay Winn
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2013-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781304657657

A 60 year history of the Oneonta Train Yard. Mr Jay Winn grew up with his Grandfather taking him to the Oneonta Train Yard. This facination continued for 6 decades. Listen and feel the sensations of a young boy seeing the huge steam engines racing by. As Jay grew up, the train technology did also...

In My Grandfather's House

In My Grandfather's House
Author: Marilou Trask-Curtin
Publisher: ProStar Publications
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2006
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781577856320

The Company You Keep

The Company You Keep
Author: Neil Gordon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004-06-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101651369

Now a major motion picture directed by Robert Redford and starring Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, Terence Howard, Anna Kendrick, Nick Nolte, and Stanley Tucci It is 2006. Seventeen-year-old Isabel Montgomery starts to receive emails from her father, a man who had abandoned her in a hotel room ten years ago when his past finally caught up with him. Why has he contacted her now? Because he needs her help and is finally ready to reveal the truth. Over the course of the next month, further emails arrive telling her more about her family's past. Isabel discovers that her father adopted a false identity in the hope of avoiding murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974. By 1996, with a marriage falling apart around him, he is one last Vietnam-era fugitives still wanted by the law. When he is finally tracked down by a young newspaper reporter in search of a story he must abandon years of safe underground life in an attempt to exonerate himself. Set against the rise and fall of the radical anti-war group the Weather Underground, The Company You Keep is a sweeping American saga about sacrifice, the righteousness of youth, and the tension between political ideals and family loyalties.

So, Tell Me

So, Tell Me
Author: Janice Ireland
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1685622895

Have you ever wondered what a life of travel was like at a young age? Have you ever wondered how it would be meeting new people all the time growing up? Could you imagine strangers helping to watch you while your mother was sick? Can you fathom never making friends because you knew those relationships wouldn’t last? How grown up was a child expected to be or not be? Feelings of adventure, fear, sadness, and pure love all wrapped into this real-life story.

People and Things from the Blount County, Alabama Southern Democrat 1915 - 1919

People and Things from the Blount County, Alabama Southern Democrat 1915 - 1919
Author: Robin Sterling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2013-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1304257959

The Southern Democrat was established by Forney G. Stephens at Blountsville in 1894. After fellow newspaperman Lawrence H. Mathews of the Blount County News-Dispatch died in 1896, Stephens moved the Democrat to Oneonta. When the News-Dispatch folded in 1903, the Democrat was the preeminent Blount County newspaper. Stephens died in 1939, but the Democrat continued to publish in Oneonta for almost 100 years. In 1989 the old Southern Democrat was renamed the Blount Countain. Microfilm for the old Southern Democrat was acquired from the State Archives in Montgomery and studied page by page. Every mention of births, marriages, deaths, obituaries and news important to the history and development of Blount County was reproduced here. This book is vital for any serious student of Blount County, Alabama genealogy and history.

People and Things from the Blount County, Alabama Southern Democrat 1934 - 1938

People and Things from the Blount County, Alabama Southern Democrat 1934 - 1938
Author: Robin Sterling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2016-01-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1329811666

The Southern Democrat was established by Forney G. Stephens at Blountsville in 1894. After fellow newspaperman Lawrence H. Mathews of the Blount County News-Dispatch died in 1896, Stephens moved the Democrat to Oneonta. When the News-Dispatch folded in 1903, the Democrat was the preeminent Blount County newspaper. Stephens died in 1939, but the Democrat continued to publish in Oneonta for almost 100 years. In 1989 the old Southern Democrat was renamed the Blount Countain. Microfilm for the old Southern Democrat was acquired from the State Archives in Montgomery and studied page by page. Every mention of births, marriages, deaths, obituaries and news important to the history and development of Blount County was reproduced here. This book is vital for any serious student of Blount County, Alabama genealogy and history.