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Chiriaco Summit

Built by Love to Last in the Desert

By: Mary Contini Gordon

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Chiriaco Summit

Built by Love to Last in the Desert

By: Mary Contini Gordon

Wine was free, but we had to pay for water." Joe Chiriaco and his thirteen siblings heard this from their Italian immigrant father as he recounted his ocean journey to America. In the face of limited water and rudimentary dirt roads, Joe and his Norwegian wife, Ruth Bergseid, founded Chiriaco Summit in the 1930s, a desert travel oasis on today's Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Los Angeles, promising to serve the world on wheels. The twenty-four-seven challenges are lightened with the courtship of two feisty lovers, the frolicking of youngsters in the desert, more loves, and the juxtaposition of some very imposing personalities, including those of Joe Chiriaco and General Patton. After moving through new aqueducts and highways, military camps, societal upheavals, and a welcome new set of hard-working immigrants, the twenty-first century brings provisions for electric cars, modern aircraft, and ATV facilities outside Joshua Tree National Park from whence the first Summit waters flowed.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1627874666

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9781627874663

Family Oral History Across the World

By: Mary Louise Contini Gordon

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Family Oral History Across the World

By: Mary Louise Contini Gordon

Family Oral History Across the World presents a process for memorializing family histories, bringing together established oral history standards, exploratory research, and narrative data analysis. Based on and using a prequestionnaire and over 40 recorded interviews with people from across six continents, the analysis system used in the book presents material from these interviews that brings alive the experience of the family history journey. One of the guiding principles is to encourage readers to interview family members, but also others outside the family unit, and to produce a family history in whatever format works. The book illustrates this through the inclusion of many unusual formats and stories uncovered. The book is divided into a number of themes that emerged through the analysis of numerical questionnaire and narrative interview data. Parts I, II, and III cover changing family demography, case studies, and factors such as memory, emotion, and ethics. Part IV offers a pliable process and practice guide with input and examples from interviews. It also discusses developing approaches to presenting oral histories from both oral historians and other interviewers and writers, such as journalists. With case studies as well as example guidelines and templates, this volume is ideal both for academics interested in family history as well as professional genealogists and families themselves.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000986209

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9781000986204

Chiriaco Summit

Built by Love to Last in the Desert

By: Mary Contini Gordon

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Built by Love to Last in the Desert

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Dear Alfonso

An Italian Feast of Love and Laughter

By: Mary Contini

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Dear Alfonso

An Italian Feast of Love and Laughter

By: Mary Contini

This is how I was born. At 7.30 a.m. at the Istituto Annunziata in Napoli on 1 May 1925...' So begins a manuscript, handwritten by Carlo Contini, which lay forgotten and unread for years. The scrawling script unfolds an incredible tale of poverty, adventure and survival which Carlo had not shared with his family during his life time, but left as a moving and extraordinary legacy for them. Inspired by this document, Carlo's daughter-in-law, Mary Contini, relates in her inimitable style the story of Carlo's life from wartime Pozzuoli, near Naples, and Genoa, and eventually to Edinburgh, where he arrived in 1952 on a three-month visa to learn English. Here his life was to change forever when he met Olivia Crolla and married into her family business, the delicatessen Valvona & Crolla. His experiences and background were a key part of the development of that fledgling business. Heart-warming, moving and filled with laughter and love, Dear Alfonso is a wonderful celebration of food, family and friendship.

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425

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Birlinn Ltd

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0857909436

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9780857909435

The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry

By: Mary Lewis Shaw

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The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry

By: Mary Lewis Shaw

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Cambridge University Press

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0521004853

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9780521004855

Art Et Architecture Au Canada

By: Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson

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Art Et Architecture Au Canada

By: Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson

Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802058566

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9780802058560

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Chiriaco Summit

Chiriaco Summit

Family Oral History Across the World

Family Oral History Across the World

Chiriaco Summit

Chiriaco Summit

Dear Alfonso

Dear Alfonso

The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry

The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry

Art Et Architecture Au Canada

Art Et Architecture Au Canada

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