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This book explores the people and places of the Sugarlands, once a thriving community in what is now the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Readers will learn the tricks and tips for locating old homesteads and exploring the vitality of the once-thriving community known then as Sugarville. We will look at advice for modern hikers about hiking off-trail, complete with hand-drawn maps that highlight the homesteads of the community, along with other structures like schools and cemeteries. The book concludes with detailed census information of the many individual graves and cemeteries of Sugarville. While it contains specific information of the Cole family (complete with various family ...

We were a nation born of the people, by the people, and for the people. But our road to freedom was a rocky treacherous path, fraught with obstacles, pitfalls, and detours. Steel is hardened in fire. Soldiers are forged in battle. Leaders are made in crises. Prior to COVID-19, we took all outbreaks of disease seriously but we took them in stride. But something changed, we changed when we were confronted with COVID-19. Draconian measures were forced on our citizens. Neighbors turned against neighbors, family against family. They closed our Churches. Politicians enforced their edicts with Gestapo like tactics. The freedom that patriots fought and died for had been summarily stripped away. ...

More stories and scrapbook photos from ex-Braniff Airlines Hostesses. First edition sold out! History and fun mixed into one super read. The most colorful airline to grace the American skies - Braniff. Their unique approach to airline travel introduced the most fashion forward, trend-setting young ladies ever! Laugh with the most outrageous stories to come from the 1960s.

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 ...

Coalinga, California, began in 1889 as a supply center for a coal mine and became a boom town when oil was discovered nearby in 1896. Seemingly overnight the oil district attracted wildcatters who explored and proved the field making it by 1910 the largest producing oil field in California. As the supply center for this district Coalinga's population soared from a couple of hundred in 1900 to over 6,000 in 1910 making it the second largest city in Fresno County. | One consequence of this explosive growth was the desire of some residents to separate those who worked in the oil fields from their hard-earned money, so Coalinga attracted liquor dealers, gamblers, and fallen women. Those who ...

For more than 20 years, the Ford Model T was the world's #1 selling car. It was also designed to run on multiple types of fuels. Recent attempts have been made to discredit the Tin Lizzie as a multi-fuel vehicle. In this short book, Marc J. Rauch dives deep into the facts and comes up with proof that the Model T was indeed a vehicle capable of running on multiple fuels.