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This book starts with Jacob Milton Bergen, Sr. and his wife, Mary Alice Baylis, who were married in 1888, and looks back to trace the direct line ancestors of both. They were both born in New York. "In 1920 Grandma and Grandpa Bergen purchased Cemetery plots in Powell Cemetery at Farmingdale, LI., now Bethpage. ... Grandma Berden died in 1947. Grandpa Bergen died in 1950. The Powell and Baylis parents, grandparents, and great grandparents of Grandma are buried there."--P. 21. The old Bergen Farm is " ... now a part of the Kennedy Airport of Queens County, New York."--P. 1. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, Maryland and elsewhere.
Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump’s head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans. In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile...
Colette Jones has had drink problems in the past, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to alcohol. Her oldest son has thrown away a promising musical career for a job behind the counter in a builders' merchants, and his drinking sprees with his brother-in-law Bill, a pseudo-Marxist supermarket butcher who seems to see alcohol as central to the proletarian revolution, have started to land him in trouble with the police. Meanwhile Colette's recently widowered older brother is following an equally self-destructive path, having knocked back an entire cellar of homemade wine, he's now on the gin, a bottle a day and counting. Who will be next? Her youngest son had de...
"The Chumash World at European Contact is a major achievement that will be required reading and a fundamental reference in a variety of disciplines for years to come."—Thomas C. Blackburn, editor of December's Child: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives "An extremely valuable synthesis of the historical, ethnographic, and archaeological record of one of the most remarkable populations of Native Californians."—Glenn J. Farris, Senior Archaeologist, California State Parks Department