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Country House Essays is an eclectic collection of original and historical essays, book excerpts, articles, and poems created for the enjoyment of visitors to the reading site CountyHouseEssays.com which is maintained by the Publisher of Piranesi Press. Purchasing a copy of this book is a great way for readers to show support for the site which has been up and running since 2018.

On September 1st, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland starting World War Two the French luxury passenger liner SS Normandie was left stranded in New York Harbor. It sat there unused until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7th, 1941. Work to make the Normandie into a troop carrier was started. A fire broke out. Tons of water were pumped into the burning ship. Top heavy, the ship rolled over on to the port side and lay in the muddy river. When a Navy Diving School was established on the Normandie Frank McNeil volunteered and found himself traveling to New York City to start a new chapter in his young life. Little did he know at the time it would change him forever.

Kentucky natives wrote this book about how five generations of their family have enjoyed Kentucky's State Parks. Practical tips are provided about how your family can enjoy the parks. In addition, the book included a concise history of the Park System's development from 1924 to 2022.

Wedged between nosey sisters and noisy chickens, truth and fiction, school and boys, love and resentment, laughter and tears: Violet tells her story as she finds her way through the ups and downs of life.

This is the 5th book in a series that will take you to hundreds of ghost towns, cemeteries, mines, and sites worth seeing. This book covers 2 counties in. These books have some history on each town, but the importance of the series is the exact location of each. You will find coordinates to each town, cemetery, mine, or site along with detailed driving directions to each. This is the first to be done in spiral binding, to make it easier to read the directions. This book contains 8 trips in La Paz and Yuma counties. It is 74 pages, 6X9, spiral bound. Come visit us on Facebook at Finding Arizona's Past for color photos and more. Enjoy and be careful out there.

This is the 4th in a series called "Finding Arizona's Past" This one has about 50 ghost towns, cemeteries, and fun locations in Mohave County. This book also has 2 ghost towns that we have located that have never had the exact location revealed before in any other book, that I could verify. This book has 8 trips containing several towns each. Some are extremely dangerous. Check them out and decide for yourself if you and your vehicle are ready for it. This book is 70 pages, 6X9, perfect bound. Come visit us on Facebook at Finding Arizona's Past for color photos and more. Enjoy and be careful out there.

Take a remarkable and historical journey in the footsteps of a forgotten soldier. David Carll, was born a free man in Cold Spring Harbor, New York in 1845. At the age of 18 David Carll signed up to fight in the war, leaving behind his newlywed bride of a few days. David was assigned to the newly formed 26th United States Colored Troop Regiment from New York. He would later find himself deep behind Confederate enemy lines in South Carolina. His descendants are telling his story from records pulled from the National Archives in Washington DC, interviews, newspaper articles and family history past down from generations. From those sources, an amazing story of sacrifice, devotion, love and w ...

Come along on an epic road trip with four crazy college buddies who travel from Minnesota to Mexico during a five-day school break in January of 1994. Watch as the plan for their insane adventure takes shape. See how their different travel challenges are concocted and then implemented. Shiver with them as they depart during a blizzard wearing only t-shirts and bellbottoms. Experience the shenanigans, excitement, danger, surprises, narrow escapes, and all the gut-busting laughter along the open road.

This is a facsimile reprint of the Summer 1942 issue of the great western pulp series Frontier Stories.

People have dreams, here is one that God gave to one person and knows that others have been shown the same vision. It is what God is doing today, in our time in the 20th Century. If you dream at all God may be speaking to you. And you may be part of the Tapestry God is weaving.