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Unpublished writings of Colin Rowe—letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard—clarify his thinking on key concepts while revealing his wit and erudition. Colin Rowe (1920–1999) was one of the great architectural historians of the twentieth century, publishing the influential works The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays (1976) and Collage City (1978). While his written work was rigorous and authoritative, his lectures and letters were more casual, “carefully careless,” both witty and erudite. I Almost Forgot gathers twenty-three such writings—letters, essays, lectures, a postcard, and a eulogy. Both edifying and entertaining, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, occasionally sca...
'So much of who we are, the kind of people we become, and the choices we make in our lives are due to the experiences of our ancestors'. - Lilian Camenzuli, 2019.In telling the story of the author's mother, Maria, her siblings and their ancestors, Lilian Camenzuli pays tribute to all those ancestors for their tenacity, their steely determination to survive (at times against all odds), but mostly for the way they loved and supported each other. 'For them, blood was thicker than water and when the chips were down, they knew with absolute certainty that they could rely on each other. They knew how to love until death, and this is perhaps the most valuable lesson they taught us. When we understa...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
John Doggett (d.1673) immigrated in 1630 from England to Watertown, Massachusetts, married twice, and died in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Descendants lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada. Includes ancestors in England to the 1200s.
Lawrence Leese (Lorenz Liss) came to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1741 and settled in York, Pennsylvania. He married Maria Elizabeth and they had a son, Valentine (ca. 1743-1806) who died in York County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and elsewhere.