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'WE'RE NOT CRAZY, WE'RE IRISH' is a riveting and true story about three generations of the author's maternal Irish-American extended family, beginning with a young teenage elopement in the year 1902 and continuing throughout the Twentieth Century. Seasoned with a generous amount of Irish wit and vintage photos of the actual characters and eras portrayed, it provides a firsthand look into the complex world of evolving Irish-American family relations and social standings as they begin to further distance themselves from their 'Old World' legacies. With ample doses of triumph and tragedy, laughter and lament and cautionary tales, the reader will be taken on a fast-paced and dizzying ride th ...

Deer. Bears. Boo-Boos. And a big brown dawg. Fifty years after the original manuscript was typed, this memoir of life in the old Oneida Post Office in Washington state finally comes to light, with all the humor, zest for life and love of animals that Arlie Fauver brought with her to Oneida in the early 1950s. “Who in the hell would buy that place?” was Arlie’s first reaction to the ramshackle old building that would later become her family’s home – a home full of fun, friends and laughter; heartache, loss and trouble; and critters of all descriptions. When it came time to leave Oneida, the only way to keep it in her heart was to write it all down, and these are the resulting ...

A simple story of a man who discovered that love could be found again after enduring the pain of a devastating divorce. We learn about the wonderful woman he met who persevered and succeeded in having a career and raising a daughter as a single mom. We discover how they met, courted and fell in love and how they later met and managed the greatest challenge either had ever faced. In the end we learn that love takes on many forms, finds many depths and persists up to the very moment of death and continues on.

A heartwarming memoir by Dorthea Reeves Perrin, a 98-year-old first time author, recounting her childhood days growing up in South Mississippi. This is a charming glimpse into the life of a precocious young girl, as she remembers family and friends almost a century later.

This is the story of the author and his family, and the thousands who worked on the E. Clemens Horst Company Hop Ranch. The story parallels the documented history of events on the ranch that impacted the author’s life and the lives of residents in the small town of Independence, Oregon. Interwoven throughout the story are never seen before photographs from the author’s family archives, along with other historical photographs. The narrative roughly follows the chronological sequence of raising hops from early spring planting through the end of harvest in September.

Eileen Flynn Cronin traces the story of her family and relates some of their experiences, as well as her own experiences growing up Irish-American. Some of these folks travelled across the sea to raise their families in New York, and specifically in that awesome, magical, mystical place known as “The Bronx”. While the circumstances and experiences described herein were unique to her family, this is a shared story of many Irish men and women, and immigrants in general, making their way in, and helping to build the great country known as the United States of America.