Many know Rocky Hill as the home of the oldest operating ferry in the country and its renowned Dinosaur State Park. However, there is a lot more history that is seldom seen. Abigail (Smith) Grimes was the imposing matriarch who laid the foundation for the town. Elsie Rhodes was a hero in two wars, although her name today is only barely visible on a memorial. Eli Rodman was an African American man who served valiantly in the Civil War, although his surviving daughters were nearly cheated out of his estate. Even a bit of whimsy, like the story of Hayes Farm's hairless cows, reflects the hardworking agrarian roots of the local community. Join author and Town Historian Robert Herron as he uncovers the forgotten stories and personalities that bring this unique town's history into focus.
Rocky Hill's name derives from a traprock ridge in the northeast part of town. East of the ridge are the Great Meadows and the Connecticut River. The river made Rocky Hill an active maritime center during the age of sail. Dividend Brook was the driver for the town's industrial growth. As steam replaced sail, Rocky Hill's role as a river port diminished. Farms grew, and the town became a thriving agricultural center. In recent years, Rocky Hill has become a residential community. Modern highways and a central location have contributed to the town's growth and made it a commercial center. Dinosaur Park, the country's oldest continuously operating ferry, Dividend Park, and parks along the river have made it a tourist destination.
Why do we have skyrocketing medical costs? How can we reduce them? This book contains innovative solutions. It provides a new way of looking at how medical systems work. Herron begins by analyzing the health outcomes the U.S. is getting from its massive investment in medical care. Most people assume modern medicine is more effective than it actually is. Research shows that disease prevention, improved standard of living, and other non-medical factors have increased longevity and improved health much more than expensive high-technology medical care. The author applies general systems theory in an imaginative way to create a new model of health systems. This innovation provides a simpler and clearer understanding of how complex health care systems function than past models.Why do we spend too much for expensive, risky medical treatment that is often ineffective, and spend too little for safe, cost-effective disease prevention? Commercial interests contribute to this phenomenon. Yet, the main underlying cause seems to be Medical Theory Failure. This is the inability of systematic knowledge to describe and explain health-related phenomena accurately, reliably, and comprehensively. Substantial research and clinical experience suggest that the fundamental ?knowledge? that guides modern medicine may be incomplete and inaccurate in several crucial areas. This point is important because medicine?s basic knowledge misguides the medical system to perform inefficiently and expensively, in spite of the best efforts of sincere and competent medical professionals. Herron suggests that we need to amend the medical theory to improve the effectiveness of health systems worldwide. The author brings to light a major body of knowledge that needs to be considered by mainstream medicine. Modern medicine?s failure to correct its guiding knowledge has created a vacuum. In response, many other streams of knowledge and medical traditions are converging in the marketplace to create a new health paradigm. This phenomenon is transforming the medical model worldwide. This change has been strongly influenced by the population?s increased use of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (CAM). The author compares and contrasts the old biomedical model with the new one that is emerging. Herron presents suggestions for updating the conventional medical model. While others provide partial, superficial solutions, which mainly focus on financial issues, this author presents numerous action steps for improving medical system effectiveness and a complete science-based strategy that applies disease prevention, health promotion, public health, primary care, scientifically-verified CAM, and many other approaches to cost-effectively improve health and reduce medical expenses.This book is based on extensive scientific research, yet it is simple, clear, and easy to understand. The author recommends the transformation of the most basic foundations of modern medicine to save the health system from imminent bankruptcy and collapse. Herron provides fundamental solutions to achieve this goal.
Blanche Pennington had been a part of Hollywood when the glamour and mystery, the money and fame had created a mystique that set the stars apart from mere mortals. But for Blanche, those high times seem far away now. She is living in a dingy one-room walk-up with only a few yellowed newspaper clippings and an old diamond ring to remind her of those glorious early years. She is alone and old. When she is mugged on a Los Angeles street, an alert reporter recognizes her name. The story of the penniless, aged actress, and her most recent misfortune is picked up by the wire services. What follows is a tale of suspense, romance, and adventure. BlancheA[a¬a[s fortunes suddenly improve, she moves to an estate in northern California, her life is threatened, and she meets some very interesting peopleA[a¬awho just happen to have been dead a very long time.
Natural Selection, Front and Homeland, 1942-1944, continues The Protocols series, a series chronicling the history of authoritarianism in the modern era, its focus is the Holocaust and the Second World War. The book begins after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Adolf Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. It tells the continuing story of people caught in events -- like Victor and Eva Klemperer, living in a Jews' House in Dresden, Germany, bearing witness to the New Order and the Final Solution, surviving while their friends disappear one by one; like Dr. Zygmunt Klukowski in Szczebrzeszyn, Poland, keeping a record of the Nazis' brutality for the Polish Underground; like fifteen-year-old Julian Kulski, "Goliath," the son of Warsaw's mayor, risking his life every day; There are many voices, many stories offering the reader a doorway into the past. We can't change it, but we can learn from it, travel back, and act -- for we also live in perilous times. Natural Selection: Front and Homeland is composed of excerpts taken from newspapers, diaries, memoirs, letters, speeches, radio transcripts, situation reports, and other historical documents selected not only for their ability to illustrate the past, but for their relevance in terms of the times in which we live.
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Nazis & Reds: A Chronology of the Prewar Years is the first book in The Protocols series, which chronicles the history of authoritarianism in the modern era. Because of its length, it is told in two parts. Part Two begins with the Night of the Long Knives, when Hitler, Goring, Himmler, Heydrich, Goebbels and others, purged the Nazi Party of opponents, as well as other enemies of the Third Reich. It also tells the continuing story of the rise of authoritarianism in the United States, and elsewhere in the world; of the rearmament of the Rhineland, the Anschluss, the Sudetenland Crisis, the Munich Pact, Hitler's betrayal of its terms, the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, and the last days before the beginning of the Second World War. its focus, however, are the lives of ordinary people caught up in events. Like all the books in the series, Nazis & Reds Part Two is told as an interwoven narrative comprised of excerpts taken from diaries, memoires, histories, news and feature articles, radio transcripts, speeches, and other historical documents selected not only for their ability to illustrate the past, but for their relevance in terms of the times in which we live.
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