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Cherry Valley (Hardcover)
Kenneth M Holtzclaw, Tom Chong
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Discovery Miles 6 530
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Beaumont (Hardcover)
Kenneth M Holtzclaw, Jeff Fox
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R627
Discovery Miles 6 270
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San Jacinto (Hardcover)
Jack Warneke, Kenneth M Holtzclaw, San Jacinto Valley Museum Association
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Discovery Miles 6 530
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Encinitas (Hardcover)
Kenneth M Holtzclaw, Diane Welch
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Del Mar Racetrack (Hardcover)
Kenneth M Holtzclaw, Del Mar Thoroughbred Club
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Moreno Valley (Hardcover)
Kenneth M Holtzclaw, Moreno Valley Historical Society
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Banning (Hardcover)
Kenneth M Holtzclaw
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Because the title of this book denotes waterways of Russia, it is
inherent that the text envelopes around that theme. Within the
story related, transverse trajectories of some of the extensive
waterways of Russia, including rivers, reservoirs, canals, and
lakes, are passed over by the river cruise-boat named Bauman. Some
included are Volga, Rybinsk, Sheksna, Kouzha, and Svir Rivers, as
well as Rybinsk Reservoir, Moscow-Volga Canal, White Lake, Onega
Lake, and Lake Ladoga, all within the confines of Russia. The
cruise on the Bauman enlightened members with much of the geography
of Russia's waterways, bringing them into close proximity with
towns, monasteries, churches and other important sights along the
way, encouraging meandering and contemplation. Preceding the water
cruise Moscow City was explored and near the end of the cruise
Helsinki, Finland. It all made for an exciting and rewarding
journey. This book goes into detail on many of the sights explored,
especially the exciting towns, churches, and waterways that were
explored. However, the book should be especially rewarding to
anyone interested in the city of Helsinki, Moscow and St.
Petersburg, where special emphases has been placed.
In 1929, a boy was born whose family would soon feel some of the
calamitous problems incurred by the Great Depression, which began
soon after the boy's birth. Responding to little more than the
primitive instinct of survival required during these times, this is
a story relating this boy's reminiscence of this period. His story
is followed through the years of the depression and into his later
boyhood, and is a narrative of his and his family's survival and
resilience, causing the family of ten children the hardship of
moving from place to place numerous times, twenty-four, seeking
work where it was most available for the head of the family, whose
occupation was a sign painter. It is a true story, inherent of the
boy's experiences, reminisced in a manner that brings the reader in
close proximity to the books main characters. However, intertwined
between hardships of the bad times of the depression, the boy was
able to bring out uplifting humor during his years relating to the
story, years up to his nineteenth birthday, when he joined the U.
S. Navy and ventured into years then nearly devoid of the
depression
A description of a Grecian and Turkey land tour is presented in
this book, encompassing cities and places circumvented by the
Aegean Sea. The cities, towns and places were all reached by a
combination of tour bus and cruise ship. The adventure begins in
Athens, Greece, and crosses Central Greece reaching Delphi. From
there it continues down into southwestern Greece into the town of
Nafpaktos, on the Corinthian Strait. Ferrying across the strait
into Peloponnese, the city of Nafplio is visited along with the
Mycenae and Epidaurus ruins. From here the adventure retracts back
to Athens by crossing over the Corinthian Canal. Here, mode of
travel is switched from bus to cruise ship, Ocean Misty. The
Grecian visit is continued when Santorini, Delos, and Mykonos
Islands were all visited. Next the island of Rhodes, bordering the
bottom of the Aegean Sea was reached. After this, Ephesus, Turkey,
was approached by ship, visited, and from there the Ocean Misty was
en route to the Dardanelles, the strait leading into the Sea of
Marmara, thereby soon reaching Istanbul, Turkey, which was the
adventure's highlight, including a visit to the Blue Mosque and a
cruise up the Bosphorus to the Black Sea. The area is well explored
in the writings of this book, a pleasure to read about these
countries around the Aegean Sea.
This is a story written with a setting soon after the Armistice was
signed for the Korean War, entitled Journey of USS Gunston Hall APD
5. It is a narration by an ex-sailor who relates the activity of
the Gunston Hall APD 5 at this time, a ship he served on during
this era. Fortunately, the author of this story had been previously
advised by his school teacher, "If any of you ever have the
opportunity to travel in the future, make it imperative to keep a
journal or diary. If you don't, you will regret it in years to
come. Without such written information, your recollection of the
past might be no better than a flight of birds through the air,
leaving no trace." He remembered these important words when he
joined the US Navy, and the first ship he boarded there was a
journal and diary book in his sea bag. He learned some sixty years
later when writing this narration that it perhaps would not have
been written without the help of his journal. Memory is often good
of events years later, but time fades away memory, which often is
somewhat diminished. Soon after the Korean War Armistice was signed
the Gunston Hall was sent to an island, Koje-do, south of South
Korea to transport North Korean prisoners from a large prison camp
there to places to be repatriated back home. This story brings
forth many problems within the prison where murders and killings
were executed, but unable for the United Nations to adequately
maintain control of the overall prison operation. Having 3,000 to
5,000 North Korean and Communist primers aboard the Gunston Hall at
one time during their transportation was some concern to the crew,
as they outnumbered its crew number by over 10 to 1. It is an
interesting story, one that is intriguing to see out fold.
This is an intriguing story which was written in a setting of over
sixty years ago, during the Korean War by a sailor who was serving
there on LST 840. Memories sometimes are short, however, during
this journey, this sailor, the author of this story, kept a
meticulously oriented journal, including many important facts and
events throughout his cruise. This helped immensely in the writing.
Fortunately, the author was an amateur photographer and was able to
present and enlighten the text with numerous related pictures of
engaging activities at that time. One of the chief duties of LST
840 during this cruise was in the evacuation of both North and
South Koreans southward, away from the flight of the North Korean
battle forces, an onslaught that often killed many civilians in
their path, as well as destroying their homes. LST 840 evacuated
thousands of civilians from their homes during this time. One
picture in this text portrays hundreds of evacuees on the upper
deck of the ship, and the closed lower deck held hundreds more.
They were taken to safe islands below the 38th Parallel, which were
under control of the United Nations. Here they were supplied with
tents, supplies and food. The author remembers seeing rows of tents
and stacks of wheat on the island of Paengnyong-do where many
evacuees were brought. LST 840 helped evacuate islands of Sunwi-do
and Cho-do. During one evacuation run, childbirth aboard ship was
accomplished, perhaps the first birth ever aboard a LST. And a
South Korean man whose leg was blown off at the knee was cared for
by a corpsman aboard ship, as no doctors were aboard small ships
like LSTs. The book is an interesting read and quite enlightening
of some of the trials and tribulations of the Korean War era.
This book was written from a sailor's journal taken during his
cruise on the Horace A, Bass APD 124 during the Korean War. The
Bass was a high speed ship rigged to accommodate Royal Marines and
Underwater Demolition Teams (Frogmen) and it did numerous
reconnaissance raids on both coasts of North Korea. During this
action in 1952 and eleven prisoners were taken. The raiding
encompassed knocking out railroad sections and railroad bridges.
The Horace A. Bass APD was just one of the many ships operating in
Korea during that war. The book is a true story told by one of the
crew members who served on the Bass as a radar operator. He kept a
journal then which supported the book greatly.
This is a true story of a naval voyage to Barrow Alaska in the
early 1950s to transport oil to there, before oil was discovered in
Alaska. During the voyage there were exciting moments; a near
collision with another ship and the cracking of the deck of the LST
1126, leaving a two inch open gap across its deck, with 6,500, 55
gallon barrels of oil below. This caused a delay of two weeks to
get the ship repaired. A voyage transporting oil was performed
yearly to Alaska. For the crew of LST 1126 it was an excitable but
most enjoyable voyage. Numerous places were visited along the way.
This book is about a POW, Ethan Gottschalk(Tex), and his
experiences while imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II.
It relates many of his experiences in the nine POW camps that he
was imprisoned in, at Manila, Formosa and Japan. To reach these
destinations he was transferred by what is usually known as Hell
Ships. These in some cases were as bad as some of the POW camps.
Many on these prisoners died during their travels and some were
buried at sea.
This story carries one through four generations of the Coleman
family, beginning with Sam Coleman, who married his young wife,
Jeannette Freer, in Illinois. They moved by wagon to Virginia
before it split into the northern state of West Virginia and the
southern state of Virginia. The Thurmond family with its 13
children is also followed through four generations. Much of the
story is centered on the years that the Civil War was fought, some
of its major battles, and activity in the vicinity of the border of
the two Virginias. It also portrays the post-war lives of both
heroes, James Willard Coleman and William Dabney Thurmond, sons of
the Virginias who became engrossed in the Civil War.
Seven adobes once stood in the Pajaro Valley in the Monterey Bay
area in 1850, among them those of the Castro, Amesti, Rodriguez,
and Vallejo families. All are now gone, with the exception of the
two-story Rancho San Andres Castro Adobe, a few miles north of
Watsonville, California. The structure has great historical
significance because it is the only surviving rancho hacienda of
the Mexican Colonial Period. Even the adobe mounds and stone
remnants of the other six adobes which remained for awhile are now
gone. The chronological presentation given in this book covers a
period from the early 1800s to 2009 and is particularly dedicated
to the Rancho San Andres Adobe and the owners and inhabitants of
this residence. The purpose of this book is to give an account of
memories and events associated with this unique hacienda and its
owners and inhabitants. By 1823, Jose Joaquin Castro, a member of
the Anza party from Mexico, was granted provisional concession from
Mexico to the Rancho San Andres, a respectable spread of
approximately 4,400 acres, ranging from Monterey Bay to Corralitos,
and from the Pajaro River to Aptos. Along with his sons and
daughters, their family holdings eventually included the greater
part of what is now Santa Cruz County, from Pajaro to Aptos to
Soquel, and almost to Davenport to the north, consisting of over
250,000acres. This was an interesting book to research and write,
because once I had lived in a house on the grounds of the old
Castro Adobe property which included 39 acres, two houses, one
which my family lived in, and the Castro Adobe. We lived on this
farm during a portion of my childhood. Fond memories of the
beautiful adobe structure still linger with me and over time these
memories often lured me back to visit the old adobe hacienda. But
now many others will enjoy this setting, since it has been bought
by the state and will be used as a park.
This story takes place during the Gold Rush area of the mid-1850s.
It begins in Holland when two young men, Hans and Johann, working
in the tulip fields hear the news of the gold discovery in
California and become interested in joining in on the rush to reach
California and explore for gold. Prior to hearing about the gold
discovery, they had contemplated traveling the world for adventure,
but now decided to begin this adventure by heading for California
and joining the gold seekers, making enough money so they could
later have the means to travel more extensively. They eventually
reach Illinois by Sail ship and train and team up with a wealthy
farm owner, Tom Kelley, who wants to join a covered wagon train to
travel across the states to California and reach the gold mines and
mine for gold, but needs some help in doing so. They travel across
country together, eventually reaching the El Dorado gold fields,
where they become quite wealthy mining for gold. They use there
funds well, and the final years of their lives are rewarded with
great a great reward.
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