San Ramon Chronicles: Stories of Bygone Days

San Ramon Chronicles: Stories of Bygone Days PDF

Author: By Beverly Lane for the Museum of the San Ramon Valley

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1467118435

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Though a relatively young city, San Ramon has history stretching back to California's founding. Ohlone Indians first inhabited the area before rancheros grazed the land more than a century ago. Drawn by the Gold Rush, pioneers and prospectors settled the place promoters labeled a "Garden of Eden." Diversified farming of the valley, full of orchards and plentiful fields, sustained the rural population. Sitting in the shadow of historic Mount Diablo, San Ramon is a growing city recognized for its extraordinary parks, schools and active citizenry. Local author Beverly Lane brings to life San Ramon's vibrant past.

Famous Poems from Bygone Days

Famous Poems from Bygone Days PDF

Author: Martin Gardner

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-02-20

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0486148564

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Over 80 poems from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including works about love and war, ships and the sea, farms and family, life and death, heaven and hell.

Tahoe Tales of Bygone Days and Memorable Pioneers

Tahoe Tales of Bygone Days and Memorable Pioneers PDF

Author: Don Lane

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2004-11-24

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1462806546

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The manuscript is a collection of short stories that were originally prepared as part of a radio program that began in the early 1980's as a summer informational and educational program for Tahoe area residents and tourists. Between 1982 and 1985 the author presented more than one hundred radio tales about Tahoe’s history and the environment over Tahoe radio station KTHO AM-590. Lane returned to the radio airways in 1995, this time with radio station KOWL AM-1490, and has since broadcast more than two thousand tales (“Don Lane’s Tales of Tahoe”). The manuscript is a distinctive mixture of stories about the events, large and small, that shaped and changed the region, and simple stories about the people that once lived in our region during the past 150-years. Stories about pioneer men and women, gold-seekers and adventurers. Tales about the unique characters; the famous like the Donner’s, Mark Twain, John Sutter and James Marshall, and John Fremont, along with the powerful and the forgotten. The manuscript weaves serious history with light-hearted tales with a minimum of editorializing, as the emphasis has been on maintaining historical integrity and authenticity. The stories, gathered from old journals, archives and historical records are both entertaining, and educational. And hopefully too, this manuscript will contribute to an increased awareness of our regional history and a greater appreciation for those people that have been lost inside the pages of history.

The Bygone Days

The Bygone Days PDF

Author: Reginald Dutch Thompson

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781773660370

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Reginald--better known as "Dutch"--Thompson is a multi-faceted storyteller with unforgettable voices--those of Roy from Murray Harbour North, Adelaide from Bunbury, Gus from Chepstow, and countless others--to tell the stories of the Bygone days in Prince Edward Island [sometimes NS, too]. Stories that, without Dutch's talent and care, might be remembered only by family and close friends or lost altogether. Remember when the train ran from tip to tip and along all the small branches, taking goods, people, and baseball teams to other parts of the Island? How about when ice cream and two pieces of cakes cost 10 cents at White's Ice Cream Parlour on Kent Street? When lobster was not the gourmet's delight it is now and the backs were used to fertilize the crops? That butchering the pig before a full moon will mean less fat on the meat? Or that it was bad luck to cut your nails on Sundays. From CBC Radio to the pages of this book, you'll hear Dutch's voice encouraging these informative, illuminating, poignant, and hilarious stories from the minds and hearts of Maritimers born between 1895 and 1925, almost as if they were all still here and telling them to you.

Looming Tales and Bygone Times

Looming Tales and Bygone Times PDF

Author: Nicholas Gomez

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781548396763

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Looming Tales and Bygone Times tells the story of nine characters' vastly different lives and in doing so, poses meaningful questions on coming of age and life as we know it: - A teen living in the lower class barrios of a luxurious Mexican city gets involved with the local Cartel. - Bad luck turns good when Nicholas meets an Australian flautist deep in the heart of Austin, Texas. - A seemingly normal boy must adapt to life after humans. - Tired of his mundane life, Nicholas spends twelve days in Mexico City fueled by drugs, alcohol, and gambling.

Bygone Days

Bygone Days PDF

Author: John Penor

Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781933045238

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Photography by John Penor. Foreward by Patti Smith. Created by Steven Sebring.

New York In Bygone Days - Its Story, Streets And Landmarks

New York In Bygone Days - Its Story, Streets And Landmarks PDF

Author: Rufus Rockwell Wilson

Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 3849663043

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Verily this Island of Manhattan is exposed to the danger of being snowed under by the showers of works scattered broadcast by her chroniclers, her eulogists, and her critics. Plentiful has been the crop of local commentaries. "New York in bygone days" is a fair type of one species of these city histories. In the main it is composed of gleanings from more ponderous and elaborate works. Mr. Wilson devotes the first volume to the civic development of the city from the first settlements around the fort to the end of the Civil War. The story is fairly well told, without a single touch of originality. Nor is there evidence that the values of the secondary sources were weighed. Extracts are given from Mrs. Lamb, who certainly permitted her pen to wander into pleasant details where verification is impossible. The excuse for being of this "New York" is that the whole story is thrown together and the reader can follow the growth of modern Gotham from its Dutch origins. In the second volume the localities are described. Still some of the personal touches tacked on to places are fresh, a, for instance, a letter from Margaret Fuller when she was the guest of Horace Greeley. Of her host she says, "His abilities in his own way are great. He believes in mine to a surprising extent. We are true friends," — a sequence delightfully suggestive of a select mutual - admiration society. This edition contains both original volumes.

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