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Frank Farr learned the hard way that a rip cord is not infallible when you have to open a parachute. He survived that lesson to spend six months in German prison camps after the "Massacre at Merseburg" Nov. 2, 1944. He notes here that young men sequestered away from all womankind don't always talk about girls. Starve them enough, and they talk about food instead. Read how World War II flyers in German prison camps passed the time (books, games music), what they talked about (food, girls and flying) and what they dreamed about (family, loved ones and freedom).
Easton City of Resources is a stunningly photographed and designed history of the city of Easton, Pennsylvania, focusing on Easton at the height of the Industrial Revolution. It's a romantic reflection of a bygone era.
Excerpt from The History of Easton, Penn'a From the Earliest Times to the Present, 1739 1885 Before I739, when David Martin built his ferry house at the foot of Ferry street, the whole scene was covered with a growth of bushes. These beautiful rivers rolled along with their gurgling music under the forests overhanging their banks. There was little to disturb the profound quiet, which reigned supreme, except the sighing of the winds, the rustling storm, the singing of birds, the loud-crashing thunder, or the war dance, or the loud war-whoop of the savages. On Mount Lafayette, on the heights where South Easton stands, or on the banks of the Lehigh, could be seen the smoke curling through the t...
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