Download or read book No Strings Attached written by Jimmy Nowoc and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Strings Attached: My Life Growing up with the Birth of Rock and Roll offers a nostalgic look at life growing up in the fifties and sixties. The narrative provides a bird's-eye view as seen through the eyes of a young devotee of music as it is changing from ballroom to bandstand and from pop to rock. Learn what song the FBI deemed "most dangerous record ever played." Consider who may have been the inspiration for the movie classic The Sandlot. Tune in to the Rock Anthem-that became the only song embraced by both pro-war and anti-war supporters-embraced by groups who either supported or condemned the Vietnam war. Find out what teen idol hit ranked number one as it ushered out the '50s and welcomed in the '60s. Which rock star refused to sign an autograph for a veteran on Veteran's Day? Experience with the author what it was like to first hear the earliest hits of our greatest rock legends and his impressions of the same encountering them five and six decades later. Relive appearances by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and twenty-nine-year-old Elton John as they thrill sold-out audiences, performing while in their prime. Travel to Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Vietnam as the author recalls the music that our veterans were listening to when they served our nation as they participated in a very unpopular war. Learn how rock affected their service. Feel the respect and admiration our GIs extended to Bob Hope for his dedication to our servicemen serving in harm's way by someone who attended his Christmas Day performance in 1966. Dispensing firsthand stories told to him by many of the principals present in 1959, the author shares his expertise, telling the story that inspired Don McLean's epic lyrical poem "American Pie." The story will allow you to secure a look from a front-row position at the world's most prestigious sixties concert held at one of the most honored venues, the Surf Ballroom.

Download or read book Footprints In The Sand written by Robert R. Grant and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As I walk down the path of life, I find that many things around me affect the way I think and the decisions I make. One of the biggest effects of my life was the night of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in 1968. At 4:00 a.m., our bomb dump blew up, and our fuel cell, with fuel for three squadrons of aircraft, blew up. Our perimeter was breached. I thought I was going to check out. I made a promise to the good Lord that I would be a productive member of society. He has been a big part of every decision I have made. I know that the day comes. I don’t meet His standard or requirements. He will dial up my number. Today, at age seventy-five years old, my doctor told me to get my life in order. I made out my will. And I made up a living will. I set up and paid for my funeral, sold everything I didn’t need. When the time comes to meet my maker, I will thank Him for allowing me to continue down my path of life. Only then will I know how He feels about my journey.

Download or read book Living Up The Street written by Gary Soto and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.

Download or read book Beyond Childhood Becoming an Adult written by Louie Dubois and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of short vignettes from youth to becoming a thirty-ish adult has some humor, some gravitas, and a somewhat skewed advancement to adulthood. Various described setbacks were overcome by sheer determination, counsel by my parents and my dear wife, and luck. Of course, belief in Divine Guidance was paramount in any perceived success, then and now. Website: fordhamroadfreddy.com Also on my website is a short political novel: The Mysterious Kerfuffle of Harry Breen combined with Part II: The Triumphant Return of Harry Breen

Download or read book Growing Up on the Farm written by Richard L. Carley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Carley's earliest memories of Sharon Mountain were of Albert Metz, whose philanthropic ideas gave many young people from all over the world, their musical start. The book describes the building of Fiddlestyx, Mr. Metz's summer music school complete with stage, practice cabins, and farm to provide the guests with food. His next memories were of Bob Metz, Mr. Metz's nephew, a role model for a young boy growing up on a farm who provided him with a positive attitude, comfort, care, and devotion following a tragic accident. Other powerful memories were of his father, a former farmer on Sharon Mountain and a First Selectman of the Town of Sharon, and of his grandfather, a builder, carpenter, and cabinet maker in Sharon. Throughout the book there are stories about things few people know about. Who ever heard of a cowpound on Sharon Mountain, or knew about the reason for the Town Poor Farm? Who knew the town of Sharon had a 3rd District one room school house located on Sharon Mountain? Who has ever heard of swimming pools for pigs? The author writes about simple things of the time such as the three different types of haymaking that don't exist today; about raising calves, working with horses for plowing fields, bringing milk to the milk stands, feeding twenty-two cats at once and about raising a bull calf for a short while before realizing it was a heifer calf, who went on to become the best milker in the herd. Funny things happened in those seventeen years; such things as a black snake he wrapped in a typewriter and a dead woodchuck he hid under the front seat of a friend's old pickup truck, a full fledged manure fight he had with his brother, and the throwing of the baby sitter's shoes out in the snow. The memories are fun, joyful and historical. This is an account of personal relationships and their effect on the history of the area.

Download or read book The Brooklyn Diaries 1969 1981 written by Richard Grayson and published by Richard Grayson. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of all six books of Richard Grayson's diary entries: SUMMER IN BROOKLYN (1969-1975), AUTUMN IN BROOKLYN (1978), WINTER IN BROOKLYN (1971-72),SPRING IN BROOKLYN (1975), MORE SUMMER IN BROOKLYN (1976-79) and A YEAR IN ROCKAWAY (1980).

Download or read book Those Who Can Coach written by Lorraine Glennon and published by Council Oak Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscences from consummate sports figures, armchair athletes, and benchwarmers are collected in this inspirational tribute to coaches.

Download or read book There Was A Little Girl In The Corner written by Linda Carter and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Author My name is Mrs. Linda D. Carter. Currently, I live in Chester, VA with my husband of forty four years, Apostle W. D. Carter, III. I began writing at the age of thirteen, and before long I developed a love for it. At this time I am working for a local hospital as a unit secretary. I also enjoy writing and composing songs, and have recorded some of them. I enjoy singing to our patients and my co-workers. I have had eight nervous breakdowns, and have miraculously survived them all. I have written this book in order to share my experiences with others who are also suffering from mental illness in order to show them that there is a way out. And the way out is through Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God.

Download or read book Games Magazine Big Book of Games II written by Ronnie Shushan and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the editors of Games magazine, their cleverest, quirkiest, orneriest, most playful and beguiling brain twisters.

Download or read book Think About What You Ask For written by Ronnie Fletcher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-29 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of spiritual poems inspired by the preached Word and our everyday experiences. These words will cause you to pay attention to the signs and lessons God gives us each day.

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Download or read book 108 Stitches written by Ron Darling and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated broadcaster Ron Darling's 108 baseball anecdotes that connect America’s game to the men who played it. In 108 Stitches, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Ron Darling offers his own take on the "six degrees of separation" game and knits together wild, wise, and wistful stories reflecting the full arc of a life in and around our national pastime. Darling has played with or reported on just about everybody who has put on a uniform since 1983, and they in turn have played with or reported on just about everybody who put on a uniform in a previous generation. Through relationships with baseball legends on and off the field, like Yale coach Smoky Joe Wood, Willie Mays, Bart Giamatti, Tom Seaver and Mickey Mantle, Darling's reminiscences reach all the way back to Babe Ruth and other early twentieth-century greats. Like the 108 stitches on a baseball, Darling's experiences are interwoven with every athlete who has ever played, every coach or manager who ever sat in a dugout, and every fan who ever played hooky from work or school to sit in the bleachers for a day game. Darling's anecdotes come together to tell the story of his time in the game, and the story of the game itself.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television Shows written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were, between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2022, 1,559 television series broadcast on three platforms: broadcast TV, cable TV, and streaming services. This book, the second supplement to the original Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2010, presents detailed information on each program, including storylines, casts (character and performer), years of broadcast, trivia facts, and network, cable or streaming information. Along with the traditional network channels and cable services, the newest streaming services like Amazon Prime Video and Disney Plus and pioneering streaming services like Netflix and Hulu are covered. The book includes a section devoted to reality series and foreign series broadcast in the U.S. for the first time from 2017 to 2022, a listing of the series broadcast from 2011 through 2016 (which are contained in the prior supplement), and an index of performers.

Download or read book From Immigrants to U S Citizenship to the American Dream written by Robert Liebenau and published by Outskirts Press Parker, Colorado. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Liebenau relates the story of his family's journey from being liberated from forced labor camps in Europe to realizing the American Dream.

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Download or read book Seeking St Louis written by Lee Ann Sandweiss and published by Missouri History Museum. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementing the new permanent exhibition at the Missouri Historical Society, this anthology gathers over three centuries of writings on St. Louis by 100 individuals who have been inspired to describe the physical and cultural essence of this region. The volume contains excerpted selections from all genres--travel diaries, poetry, fiction, journalism, drama, and rare out-of-print and previously unpublished archival material--including poems by Angus Umphraville, from the first volume of verse published west of the Mississippi, and newspaper articles by Theodore Dreiser when he was a beat reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Other compelling excerpts were authored by such notables as Auguste Chouteau, Charles Dickens, William Wells Brown, William T. Sherman, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Fanny Hurst, William S. Burroughs, Miles Davis, Nzotake Shange, John Lutz, Carl Phillips, and Quincy Troupe. A biographical introduction precedes each entry to place the author and the excerpt in the proper historical context. The content of Seeking St. Louis was enriched by the involvement of several of the St. Louis area's foremost literary experts--Robert Boyd, Jan Garden Castro, Gerald Early, Wayne Fields, and Karen Goering--who served as contributing editors.

Download or read book In the Midnight Hour written by Kimberly Randell and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1999 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica Parish bought an extravagant antique bed -- and found a ghost waiting for her when she climbed under the covers! Famed New Orleans lover Valentine Tremaine was murdered over a hundred years ago. Now he cannot rest until he finds out if he has any descendants -- and discovers their fate.