A 20th Century Bridge opens with the Industrial Revolution underway. The majority of our citizens are illiterate and telegraphers will soon lose their jobs to telephone operators. The reader is taken on a journey with transportation by steam locomotive and "hoss cars" at the outset. These give way to a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce, an open cockpit biplane and a FedEx Airbus shuttling the world. Early on you learn Major Foley, the author's father, shaped history during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Along the way you witness a ...
Read More
A 20th Century Bridge opens with the Industrial Revolution underway. The majority of our citizens are illiterate and telegraphers will soon lose their jobs to telephone operators. The reader is taken on a journey with transportation by steam locomotive and "hoss cars" at the outset. These give way to a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce, an open cockpit biplane and a FedEx Airbus shuttling the world. Early on you learn Major Foley, the author's father, shaped history during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Along the way you witness a frontier wedding at the gateway to the Klondike, the life-saving mission of an Alaskan bush pilot, a computer/telecommunications pioneer at work in Silicon Valley, Triathlon competition on a Caribbean island, a seven foot snowfall high in the Sierras and a goat herd in Maine saving lives. Four Irish Americans named Cooling, Coakley, Minahan and Foley formed a new gene pool almost 100 years ago. Their offspring, and children born of new matrimonial threads, have woven a rich, diverse, and continually growing fabric of common heritage among relatives named Allyn, Bosies, Conroy, Davidson, Estey, Foley, Grier, Halpin, Hopkins, Kohut, Maloney, Marchesi, Reilly, Rivet, Robinson, Sandefur, Sotire, Terhune, Tisdale and VanDyke. This memoir offers each and all an intimate glimpse of ancestral and contemporary personalities, lifetime experiences, and the cultural forces at work throughout the previous century.
Read Less
Add this copy of A 20th Century Bridge: Selected Memories of a Family to cart. $17.85, new condition, Sold by Ria Christie Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Uxbridge, MIDDLESEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2005 by Authorhouse.
Add this copy of A 20th Century Bridge Selected Memories of a Family to cart. $21.43, new condition, Sold by Books2anywhere rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fairford, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2005 by AuthorHouse.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Add this copy of A 20th Century Bridge Selected Memories of a Family to cart. $22.77, new condition, Sold by Paperbackshop International rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fairford, GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2005 by AuthorHouse.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Add this copy of A 20th Century Bridge: Selected Memories of a Family to cart. $26.17, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2005 by Authorhouse.
