This book collects 20 profiles of small business owners in the San Diego and Chula Vista area. Profiles were researched and written by senior students at High Tech High Chula Vista, a public charter... More > high school< Less
This book explores the events leading to the creation of Lake Gaston, located on the North Carolina/Virginia border. Through interviews with local residents, buoyed by research of newspaper archives,... More > students from Warren New Tech High School in Warrenton, North Carolina, have painted a picture of an untold story in their community's history, as remembered by those who lived it.< Less
This book is a collection of “Where I’m From” poems written by the founding 8th graders of High Tech Middle Chula Vista. It is our first publication for the Staff/Holmes/Recendez... More > Team. Although every poem is inspired by George Ella Lyon’s original “Where I’m From” poem, you will find that each poem has a unique voice and a distinct set of experiences to reference. During this first project, we built a community of writers and peer editors as we went through multiple drafts of our “Where I’m From” poems before publication. We are proud of our final collection of poetry. We hope you enjoy reading our work as much as we enjoyed creating it!< Less
Born in England, Phil came to the US with his wife Tracey and two young children looking to discover America and start a new life together in the Bay Area, California. What they found was a... More > mismanaged state, an unhealthy environment and a overly political stifling corporate culture.
Join Phil as he takes you through leaving his job as a high-tech executive and sets off in an RV to discover America, himself and his family. His brutally honest approach, zanny British humor and factual information make this part autobiography and part travel/RV guide book informative, hilarious and thought provoking.< Less
Born in England, Phil came to the US with his wife Tracey and two young children looking to discover America and start a new life together in the Bay Area, California. What they found was a... More > mismanaged state, an unhealthy environment and a overly political stifling corporate culture.
Join Phil as he takes you through leaving his job as a high-tech executive and sets off in an RV to discover America, himself and his family. His brutally honest approach, zanny British humor and factual information make this part autobiography and part travel/RV guide book informative, hilarious and thought provoking.< Less
Through interviews with local residents, students from Warren New Tech High School in Warrenton, North Carolina, have painted a picture of this region's history, as remembered by those who lived it.... More > This book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the creation of Lake Gaston.< Less
One of the vexing problems with old cemeteries and historical sites is the difficulty of finding the locations of unmarked graves. In many cases, the desire is to locate the graves so that they may... More > be identified and left undisturbed by new construction. To be sure, the locations may have been marked at one time with wooden or even stone markers. However, the ravages of time, weather, animals, vandals, and acid rain over the years may have removed all traces of those markers. Locating unmarked graves is also vitally important in solving murder cases.
Historically, the only method of finding unmarked graves has been to start digging – not a very practical solution. However, modern technology now allows cemetery associations, historical societies, family societies, genealogists, archaeologists, police departments, and others to identify the locations of buried bodies and other objects with no digging required.< Less
