A young, rich American girl, after traveling all over the world with a father addicted to periodical dipsomania, loses this father, and before returning to her California chicken ranch goes to visit... More > her English relatives. Her cousin is in the House of Commons, but suddenly becoming a peer is forced into the House of Lords. He decides to go to America. The story deals with American politics and especially with the conditions in San Francisco. The great earthquake and fire of 1906 bring about changes in the lives of the chief actors.< Less
A young, rich American girl, after traveling all over the world with a father addicted to periodical dipsomania, loses this father, and before returning to her California chicken ranch goes to visit... More > her English relatives. Her cousin is in the House of Commons, but suddenly becoming a peer is forced into the House of Lords. He decides to go to America. The story deals with American politics and especially with the conditions in San Francisco. The great earthquake and fire of 1906 bring about changes in the lives of the chief actors.< Less
Compilation of Family Histories, Letters and Journals of the Willes Family and others
For the most part, none of these documents have been heretofore published but have remained private journals and... More > stories handed down through the generations. It has been a great pleasure to me re-reading the whole collection as I have prepared them for this format. They represent the collective cultural heritage of the family that we are; spanning some 366 years back to Joshua Willes, born 1646 in Tolland, Connecticut.
It begins closer to the present with my parents, born at the beginning of World War I, newlyweds through the Great Depression, and a family of four during the rationing of World War II.
In between are the generations that fought the Revolutionary War and Spanish American War; those, who moved westward in the early days of a fledgling new nation; those who after persecution, sought refuge as Mormon Pioneers and made, through their industry, the desert blossom as a rose.< Less
This is the story of the African experience as a historical narrative told through a priestess in poetry. Visualize and follow the Ancestors' story from the community, through the middle passage and... More > plantation slavery, and to freedom. Take a peep into the present and future of Africa and the diaspora through the eyes of the Ancestors. 'The Ancestors Spoke' is a great companion book for African and American history students, a valuable gift for friends and loved ones and an excellent poetry performance script with Afro-American music.< Less
This is the story of the African experience as a historical narrative told through a priestess in poetry. Visualize and follow the Ancestors' story from the community, through the middle passage and... More > plantation slavery, and to freedom. Take a peep into the present and future of Africa and the diaspora through the eyes of the Ancestors. 'The Ancestors Spoke' is a great companion book for African and American history students, a valuable gift for friends and loved ones and an excellent poetry performance script with Afro-American music.< Less
