Bordentown, New Jersey, is located at the confluence of the Delaware River, Blacks Creek, and Crosswicks Creek. The town sits on a high bluff northeast of Philadelphia. Bordentown has always been an accessible crossroads, first by water and train and presently by car and light rail. The community was a railroading town and had a successful boating industry. It eventually transitioned into a factory town, supporting such businesses as Eagle Shirt Factory, Ocean Spray Cranberries, and Spring...

Originally known as Farnsworth's Landing, Bordentown was settled in 1682 by Quaker Thomas Farnsworth. A natural hub of transportation for its key location on the Delaware River between Philadelphia and New York City, Bordentown flourished in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Internationally known artists, writers, and inventors called Bordentown home; industry thrived; and many private schools, including Bordentown Military Institute, were highly rated. As residents do today, the peo...

Out of a conversation of three women of a certain age, came the great idea to offer thoughts to other women who may benefit from our life experiences. To add to our knowledge, we interviewed 11 women from a diverse ethnic, economic, culture and location of the country. From their answers came the same basic beliefs we have addressed and prepared for you, the reader.Out of those conversations and ours came this book full of life experience essays to help those who may have questions...

Short stories of intense content to keep you reading; stories to make you laugh, to touch your heart; to suit the mood you are in this moment; stories that are light-hearted or pull you deep inside; stories the right length to read on your lunch hour or in the waiting room; stories for in the middle of the night's restlessness; to make you think; stories you won't want to miss, that you were glad you had a chance to read. Choices Omnibus allows you to choose from a selection of stories of ...

Twelve fiction stories about life bring warm smiles to your face, deep thoughts to ponder and simple contentment to the reader. Some stories take you to Wales, Florida, New York and New Jersey. Some stories will take you back in time, one to the future and there is even a fractured fairy tale to make you laugh from start to finish. Twelve are true stories about clever cats, life-giving and taking, the Mayflower, A Yankee in Blue, a life regression and more. All stories will take you out of...

No one remembered if it was the Lovers or the Astronomers who first noticed the stars were disappearing.-------- No hurdle is too high for God.. ----- Edd the sociopath slumped in his overstuffed leather chair, glowering across the desk at his psychologist, Dr. Azabal. ------"I can beat your son up!" Jamiel angrily exclaimed.-------- Given all the debates about flags, memorials and white supremacy, does it sometimes feel like we're still fighting the Civil War?------"Yes, Maam, come on dow...

New Egypt and Plumsted Township is a collection of unique vintage photographs, many of which have never before been published. Beginning with Quaker Clement Plumstead of London, who was granted twenty-seven hundred acres in 1699, this history shows the progression of the township to the mid-1900s. At the end of the nineteenth century, railroad transportation brought visitors to New Egypt, which blossomed with hotels, guesthouses, the Isis Theatre, and carnivals on Oakford Lake. Among the i...

These opening sentences begin a few of the stories within; stories of intrigue, fascination, and suspense.It was just an old cloak—the kind you see people wearing in those movies. You know, the kind of cloak people wore to escape from Paris and the guillotine during the French revolution…Steven Tyler was wailing about love in an elevator as John eased the blue Civic off the interstate, down the exit and into the Burger King parking lot…My new husban...

The author is invited to a children's tea party where the other guests are all ghosts. Happy children love the house they live in while other spirits come and go for their own reasons. Some people just seem to have ghosts around them all the time regardless of which house they choose to reside in. Ghost Hunters use modern equipment when they are also invited to roam through the house seeking evidence of the unseen.History works its way into the present with spirits left behind to l...

It was a dream job – until I got hit in the head with a pickle. . . My dress-up shoes are pinching my toes. . . Mississippi Mamaw muscadine jelly biscuits for breakfast, and the fried bologna on the white wonder for lunch. . . Life can be this frightening sometimes. . . "Where are we?" she asks with anxious uncertainty. . . The queen called. . . Sir John FitzAlan drew a slow breath against the pain in his half-healed side. . . Mandy crunches on thinly packed snow with her powder blue hikin...

Once the center of agricultural prosperity in Alabama, the rich soil of the Black Belt still features beautiful homes that stand as a testimony to the region�s proud heritage. Join author Jennifer Hale as she explores the history of seventeen of the finest plantation homes in Alabama�s Black Belt. This book chronicles the original owners and slaves of the homes, and traces their descendants who continued to call these plantations home throughout the past two centuries. Discover why the fam...

This is Margaret’s story, one of four true stories from the book GI Brides.“Margaret’s eyes were on the handsome officers who milled around the US Army headquarters. But it was one young second lieutenant that she particularly looked out for… And she secretly deteThe room was filled with GIs – some playing pool, some jostling for control of rmined to make him hers.”An attractive young English girl, Margaret finds herself working at the US Army headquarters in London, where ...