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Black, Claudia: Repeat After Me, Mac Publishing July 1991 ISBN: 0910223041
,,When Repeat After Me was first published in the 1980's, it was a time when adult children of alcoholic families were coming out of the closet by the thousands. Until that time these were people who were silently making their way through adulthood not understanding why they were so unsatisfied and unhappy when "everything seemed okay," or why some one thing, person or place "was never enough." For many there was a chronic gnawing sense that something was missing. This great number of people happily took on the identity of being an ACA or ACOA (Adult Child of Alcoholic). They were grateful to have a framework in which to understand and conceptualize their experience. They had been given a language in which to voice their experiences. Yet what was true for this particular population could be generalized to people from other types of troubled families. They were from homes where there were abuses, other addictions, compulsive behaviors or mental illness - homes that for whatever the reasons were characterized by loss and shame. Repeat After Me was written in the spirit of offering all who were raised in troubled families a process of self-exploration, insight and healing that would lead to a positive change in their lives. \n\nAs adults began that process of asking how their childhood was influencing their present day life, the intent was never one of blame but of insight and understanding. It has been the author's contention that we repeat the life scripts of our family as a result of internalized beliefs and behaviors that were either modeled for us or were a part of our survivorship. We cannot put a painful past history behind us without first owning it. It is not enough to say I came from an alcoholic family or an abusive family. We must go beyond that acknowledgment to see how our internalized beliefs and behaviors have shaped us to be the person we are today. With that in mind Repeat After Me was written. \n\nRepeat After Me is not a book that explains how problems come to be as much as it is a book that takes you through a process of letting go of hurtful beliefs and behaviors. While insight is often the precursor to change, insight alone is not enough for most people to create change. People need to believe they deserve positive change and they need to develop skills that make change occur. While many of the changes in this second edition of Repeat After Me are subtle, it is written to support the reader's belief in their personal worth and assist them in identifying and focusing on skills. The knowledge that comes in owning the past and connecting it to the present is vital to developing empathy for the strength of both our defenses and skills. It also helps us to lessen our shame and not hold ourselves accountable for the pain we have carried. When we understand the reasons for why we have lived our life as we have, that understanding fuels our ongoing healing. The change we want to create in our life is made most directly as a result of letting go of old, hurtful belief systems and learning new skills. Repeat After Me guides you in this process.

Condition;Good ,Trade Paperback ,When Repeat After Me was first published in the 1980's, it was a time when adult children of alcoholic families were coming out of the closet by the thousands. Until that time these were people who were silently making their way through adulthood not understanding why they were so unsatisfied and unhappy when "everything seemed okay," or why some one thing, person or place "was never enough." For many there was a chronic gnawing sense that something was missing. This great number of people happily took on the identity of being an ACA or ACOA (Adult Child of Alcoholic). They were grateful to have a framework in which to understand and conceptualize their experience. They had been given a language in which to voice their experiences. Yet what was true for this particular population could be generalized to people from other types of troubled families. They were from homes where there were abuses, other addictions, compulsive behaviors or mental illness - homes that for whatever the reasons were characterized by loss and shame. Repeat After Me was written in the spirit of offering all who were raised in troubled families a process of self-exploration, insight and healing that would lead to a positive change in their lives. \n\nAs adults began that process of asking how their childhood was influencing their present day life, the intent was never one of blame but of insight and understanding. It has been the author's contention that we repeat the life scripts of our family as a result of internalized beliefs and behaviors that were either modeled for us or were a part of our survivorship. We cannot put a painful past history behind us without first owning it. It is not enough to say I came from an alcoholic family or an abusive family. We must go beyond that acknowledgment to see how our internalized beliefs and behaviors have shaped us to be the person we are today. With that in mind Repeat After Me was written. \n\nRepeat After Me is not a book that explains how problems come to be as much as it is a book that takes you through a process of letting go of hurtful beliefs and behaviors. While insight is often the precursor to change, insight alone is not enough for most people to create change. People need to believe they deserve positive change and they need to develop skills that make change occur. While many of the changes in this second edition of Repeat After Me are subtle, it is written to support the reader's belief in their personal worth and assist them in identifying and focusing on skills. The knowledge that comes in owning the past and connecting it to the present is vital to developing empathy for the strength of both our defenses and skills. It also helps us to lessen our shame and not hold ourselves accountable for the pain we have carried. When we understand the reasons for why we have lived our life as we have, that understanding fuels our ongoing healing. The change we want to create in our life is made most directly as a result of letting go of old, hurtful belief systems and learning new skills. Repeat After Me guides you in this process.

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Elk, Wallace Black: BLACK ELK: THE SACRED WAYS OF A LAKOTA, HarperOne 1991
0-06-250074-0 Very Good Condition

<B> "Black Elk opens the Lakota sacred hoop to a comic humanism for everyone. His book will stretch the common definition of shamanism and lift the Buckskin Curtain to the characters behind the great visions."--Kenneth Lincoln (author of Native American Renaissance) in the San Francisco Chronicle. <P><B> "<B> You know, straight across the board, hardly anyone really knows what is Indian. The word Indian in itself really doesn't mean anything. That's how come nobody knows anything about Indians. So I want to tell you how I grew up and who I am. I've never read books. I wasn't educated that way. What I am saying here is based on my life. That's what I am telling you. I grew up with this Chanunpa, this Sacred Pipe, and I have a spirit guide with me all the time. He leads me in and out of all the difficulties, all the obstacles I have to go through. The spirit always finds a pathway. The Chanunpa [Sacred Pipe] Ends a pathway. It's like a deer trail. If you find a deer trail and follow that trail, it's going to lead you to medicines and waterholes and a shelter.<P began when I was five years old. That sacred power was given to me. It belonged to my forefathers and foremothers. My grandfather and grandmother decided they wanted to leave something with our people so that in future times there would be little guys behind me. So it was for the unborn to come, and we had a prophecy about that nineteen generations before. We can't remember back any further than that. Every seven generations we have a family reunion. You call our family the Sioux, but we call ourselves Lakota. We are Earth People because we live close to our mother, the Earth. At first we all spoke the same language and the same mind. At the end of seven generations we had a big family reunion, and we spoke many different languages. Then everybody went off again. They went in all directions. At the end of that seven generations we had a family reunion, and we spoke even more languages. Each time ourpeople came together they had to unanimously understand where we came from. They had to understand that we are a part of the fire and a part of the rock, or earth, and a part of the water and a part of the green, or living. That way we were able to communicate with all the living. And so we spoke many different languages, but we still spoke the same mind. So we know where we came from. We still know our roots. At that time we were warned that an unknown power would come to us and would cause in us that little shadow of a doubt. That shadow of a doubt would lead to nothing but hurt and destruction and even to death. For us, death means you are gone forever. For the white man, death means physical death, but to us that is a sleep. In the real death, the spirit is gone forever. So I learned all this little bitty, kindergarten stuff when I was five years old. We have a biological father and mother, but our real Father is Tunkashila [Creator], and our real Mother is the Earth. They give birth and life to all the living, so we know we're all interrelated. We all have the same Father and Mother. That is why you hear us always saying milakuye oyasin. We say those words as we enter the sacred stone-people-lodge [sweat-lodge] and also at the end of every prayer. It means all my relations. It helps to remind us that we are related to everything that exists. So I was educated that way, and it was prophesied nineteen generations ago that that gift would be given to me at the age of five. The old people were waiting and ready for me. So when I was five years old, I became an adult. I was just a little guy, but in my mind I was an adult. When my old people talked, I always sat right in themiddle. I was just a little guy, you know, but I listened to them. It's really hard to hear an old man talk. You have to have a lot of patience to hear those people talk, because when they talk, they talk about the motivation, the feeling, the unsound that is around in the universe. They explain everything to one understanding. <P><B> They bring it all together, and when they finish, just one word comes out. Just one word. They might talk all day, and just one word comes out. The next day they'll talk again, and then another word comes out." </B><P> Paperback 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches

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Sheehan, Susan: THE BANANA SCULPTOR, THE PURPLE LADY, AND THE ALL-NIGHT SWIMMER : HOBBIES, COLLECTING, AND OTHER PASSIONATE PURSUITS, New York Simon & Schuster 2002
0-7432-0122-1 As New

<B> Deep down, people are weird. Searching for those whose weirdness expresses itself through art, sport, religion, and other relatively normal pursuits, writers Susan Sheehan and Howard Means found 40 strangely compelling stories, recounted in the wonderfully titled The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer. One man's ambition is to eat at every McDonald's in the United States; a young woman has won more than 3,000 ribbons at the huge Iowa State Fair. The authors go beyond simple believe-it-or-not reporting, instead interviewing each of their subjects to tease out their motivations and the consequences of their passions. One gentleman, whose aim is to swim across each of the Great Lakes, admits that his goals don't permit him to have a family or much social interaction, but he seems genuinely satisfied with his purpose in life. Much of the book is told in the subjects' own words, which offer insights into the pride and humility, the genius and madness of these singular individuals. The book may not inspire the kind of zeal it takes to carve a life-sized Last Supper, but it will help readers appreciate the weirdness to be found in ordinary people. --Rob Lightner Product Description: We Americans love to look at ourselves. How we vote, where we work, what we think about church and school -- studying ourselves is a national pastime. What has been missing in all this self-examination, until now, is a book about the greatest national obsessions of all: the hobbies we pursue, the collections and amateur sports to which we devote so much of our lives. The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer chronicles the amazing variety of ways in which we relax, compete with others and ourselves, and indulge some of our richest fantasies. Here are wonderfully warm and witty accounts of Americans as they: attempt to swim all the Great Lakes, often in horrible conditions; quit a job and begin raising sheep to accommodate a newfound passion for spinning; eat at every McDonald's in the nation; carve The Last Supper from wood; cross all the world's suspension bridges; build huge banana sculptures; roller blade, scull, and bake; and collect marbles, Noah's arks, talking birds, and much more. In these pages you'll meet a marvelous array of ordinary people who do unusual things, sometimes to extremes, as they define for themselves worlds of imagination, contest, and excellence. These are people who thrill to the chase and sometimes plain wear themselves out having fun, whether it's flying kites as big as a king-size mattress, canoeing in the Canadian wilderness, or meticulously recording the daily details of their everyday existence. In Working, Studs Terkel gave us an unforgettable oral history of the working life of an earlier generation. The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer is a history for our own times -- of the passionate pursuits by which so many of us define ourselves and of the universal search for happiness and a sense of fulfillment. <P><B> Maybe you'll find yourself in the forty people profiled here. <P> <B> Maybe you'll find a hobby that you'll want to make your own. Either way, your life is likely to be enriched, just as the lives of the people you will read about are enriched by the depth of their commitment and the beauty of their accomplishments.</B><P> Hardcover 9.1 x 6.8 x 1.0 inches

[SW: Leisure -- United States, Hobbyists -- United States -- Biography, Collectors and Collecting, Hobbies, Collectibles, Relaxation]

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DR. ZACHARIAH WILLIS KEMP: 1930 - 1943 ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN DIARIES BY THE PRINCIPAL OF THE SANBORN ACADEMY, A STRONG REPUBLICAN, MEMBER OF THE ODD FELLOWS AND EASTERN STAR, Sanborn Academy, New Hampshire 1930 ; fester Einband / hard cover
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ON OFFER ARE 14 SUPER HANDWRITTEN DIARIES 1930 - 1943, 5 X 8 IN. HARDCOVER DIARIES AUTHORED BY DR. ZACHARIAH WILLIS KEMP WHO WAS A STRONG REPUBLICAN AND BELONGED TO THE EASTERN STAR AND THE ODD FELLOWS. HE WAS VERY INVOLVED IN CHURCH. HE MENTIONS A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE BY NAME. HE WAS A GREAT WRITER. HIS HANDWRITTING IS EASY TO READ, BUT GETS A LITTLE HARDER TO READ, TOWARDS THE END YEARS. DR. KEMP MARRIED MARY L. BOYNTON ON DEC 24, 1885. DR. KEMP AND MARY KEMP HAD 8 CHILDREN, THE OLDEST IS IDA WAS BORN MARCH 4, 1886, CHARLES BORN APRIL 10, 1888, MARION BORN MARCH 31, 1890, SYBIL BORN AUG. 26, 1891, ALICE BORN 1897, RALPH BORN AUG. 13, 1899, RUTH BORN SEPT. 5, 1902, ROBERT BORN LATE 1906. IN APRIL 1901 HE IS PRINCIPAL AT SANBORN ACADEMY IN KINGSTON, NH. HE IS RETIRED NOW AND HAS A LOT MORE TIME TO WRITE, MOST OF HIS CHILDREN WENT TO COLLEGE AND MOST ARE MARRIED. A GREAT WRITER DR. KEMP DETAILS THE BEGINNINGS OF WWII WHICH HE FOLLOWS WITH SUPREME INTEREST. THE CONSUMMATE DIARIST HE WRITES EVERYDAY, ABOUT HIS KIDS, HIS TRAVELS AND HIS WIFE. HE CHRONICLES DEATHS, BIRTHS, AND THOUGH RETIRED HE IS STILL INVOLVED WITH THE SCHOOL, AND GOES TO BASKETBALL, FOOTBALL, AND BASEBALL GAMES AND HE ESPECIALLY ENJOYS THE DEBATE TEAM. HE GOES TO EASTERN STAR, WRITES FOR THE NEWSPAPER, [MOSTLY POLITICAL, WWII, WORLD EVENTS, BOATING AND WRITES OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN TOWN. HE LISTS MANY, MANY NAMES AND LOCAL HISTORY AND AS HE APPEARS TO BE AN IMPORTANT MAN HE HAD VISITS FROM MANY PEOPLE TO CONSULT WITH HIM. CONDITION WISE THE DIARIES ARE ALL GOOD, NO DAMAGE, NO TORN PAGES. HE WROTE EVERYDAY 97% OF THE TIME. IN 1939 & 1940 & 1941 HE WAS SICK AND DIDN'T WRITE 30 DAYS IN EACH OF THOSE YEARS. THE LAST DIARY 1943 HE ONLY WROTE TO MAY, THAT IS WHEN HE DIED AS WRITTEN BY HIS DAUGHTER. A COLLECTOR OF DIARIES WITH PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE DEPRESSION ERA AND WAR YEARS WILL BE ENTHRALLED BY DR. KEMP'S DEDICATION AS THERE IS SO MUCH INFORMATION IN ALL THESE DIARIES. HERE ARE SOME SNIPPETS; NOV. 4, 1930. ANNUAL ELECTION, WE POLLED 255 VOTERS, 200 REPUBLICAN AND 35 DEMOCRATIC. WE GOT OUT ONLY 49% OF THE TOWNS VOTE MASS. HAS A DEMOCRATIC SLUMP AND DEFEATED ? THE REPUBLICAN GOVENOR AND SENATOR. REPUBLICAN TICKET. FEB. 2, 1932, JAPAN SEEMS INTENT TO HAVE A WAR WITH CHINA. ALL ENGLAND AND THE U.S. CAN DO - WE HAVE ORDERED MORE WAR SHIPS THERE AND A REGIMENT OF THE REGULAR ARMY FROM MANILLA. AMERICAN INTERESTS THE OTHER CITY ATTACKED. JAN. 7, 1933, THE FUNERAL OF CALVIN COOLIDGE WAS HELD IN THE EDWARDS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AT NORTHAMPTON, MASS. THIS MORNING AT 10:30. THE BURIAL WAS AT PLYMOUTH VERMONT. THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S., CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT AND THE LEADERS OF THE NATION, GENERALLY WERE PRESENT. FEB. 17, 1933, MAYOR CERMAC? OF CHICAGO, WHO WAS SHOT, WHEN THE WOULD BE ASSASSIN OF PRES. ELECT. ROOSEVELT, FIRED AT THE PRES. ELECT. IS LIKELY TO RECOVER. EARTHQUAKE IN CAL. KEMP FAMILY REUNION WITH NAMES. HALLOWEEN PARTY. JAN. 18, 1934, THE GOVERNMENT HAS CALLED IN ALL THE GOLD AND WILL HOLD IT. THEY WILL ESTABLISH THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR AT ABOUT 60 CENTS BACK BY THE GOLD AND CREDIT OF THE COUNTRY. PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY BALLS. SEPT. 9, 1934, TERRIBLE ACCIDENT BY THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER HORRO CASTLE ON ITS RUN FROM CUBA TO NEW YORK. 24 LIVES WERE LOST ONE OF THE GREASTEST DISASTERS. SEPT. 12, 1934, THE TEXTILE STRIKE HAS BROUGHT ALMOST CURL WAR IN RHODE ISLAND, THE STATE MILITIA ARE OUT AND HAVE HAD TO SHOOT SOME OF THE MOB. THERE IS TALK OF CALLING OUT THE U.S. TROOPS TO CONTROL THE SITUATION. MARCH 1, 1935, AN ALARM OF FIRE WAS GIVEN AND (a list of names) LEFT THE HALL TO GO TO THE FIRE AS THEY ARE FIRE OFFICIALS. THE FIRE WAS AT THE GILES PLACE IN E. KINGSTON. A LANTERN EXPLODED IN THE HANDS OF ROBERT ALLEN THROWING THE BURNING OIL INTO THE HAY. 25 HOGS, 12 COWS, 1 HORSE, 3 SHEEP AND A TRUCK WERE DESTROYED. ALLEN WAS BADLY BURNED ON HIS RIGHT HAND, TRYING TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE. LACK OF H2O PREVENTED SAVING THE HOUSE. OCT. 11, 1935, WE LISTENED TO THE EVIDENCE IN A CASE WHERE EILEEN ? OF BENNINGTON, VERMONT WAS TRIED, 1. FOR CONCEALING LIQUOR ON WHICH NO TAX HAD BEEN PAID. 2. FOR HAVING IN HER PROSESSION LIQUOR UNTAXED. SOME MEMBERS OF THE JURY STOOD OUT AGAINST A VERDICT OF GUILTY FOR NEARLY 3 HOURS. FINALLY THEY AGREED AND MADE THE VERDICT UNANIMOUS ON THE 2ND COUNT AND NOT QUILTY ON THE 1ST COUNT. NOV. 19, 1936, CONDITION IN SPAIN ARE HORRIBLE NOW. THE BATTLE HAS RAGED AROUND MADRID FOR NEARLY TWO WEEKS. THOUSANDS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN HAVE BEEN KILLED BY THE BOMBS DROPPED AND MANY BUILDINGS BURNED AND THE END IS NOT YET. IT LOOKS LIKE A GENERAL EUROPEAN WAR BEFORE THE THING IS ENDED. DEC. 5, 1936, I HAVE NOW COMPLETED WITH SYBILS REQUEST TO MAKE A WILL, SO THERE WILL BE NO CONFUSION WHEN WE DIE. THE WHOLE OF ENGLAND IS IN EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE KING EDWARD WISHING TO MARRY MRS. SIMPSON, A WOMAN TWICE DIVORCED. JAN. 23, 1937, THE FLOODS IN THE OHIO VALLEY ARE THE WORST EVER. AND MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES BY THEM. ALTHO TO DATE THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE LOSS OF LIFE. THE AUTO STRICK SEEMS TO BE STILL GOING WITH NO APPROACH TO A SETTLEMENT. THE STRIKERS HOLD POSSESSION OF TWO PLANTS AND WILL NOT LEAVE THEM, EXCEPT BY FORCE WHICH THE COMPANY HAVE TRIED TO AVOID SO FAR. JUNE 1, 1937, GERMANY IN REVENGE FOR ONE OF HER WAR SHIPS, BEING BOMBED BY A SPANISH AIRPLANE, BOMBARDED A DEFENSLESS TOWN AND KILLING ABOUT 20 INCLUDING WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND WOUNDED 80 - AN ACT OF WAR. WILL IT START THE EUROPEAN WAR? JULY 6, 1937, THE MOST INTERESTING NEWS IS THE SEARCH FOR AMELIA EARHART, THE WOMAN WHO TRIED TO MAKE SALOMON ISLANDA IN THE PACIFIC AND MISSED IT AND RADIOED FOR HELP. SCORES OF U.S. WAR VESSELS AND HUNDREDS OF AIRPLANES ARE HUNTING FOR HER. THE PROBABILITIES ARE THAT HER PLANE LANDED IN THE OCEAN AND SANK AND NO TRACE WILL BE FOUND. A DRUNK BURNED DOWN A HOUSE. FEB, 21, 1938, THE WORLD IS BADLY SHAKEN UP BY THE SPEECH OF HITLER, THE DICTATOR OF GERMANY. HE IMPLIES THAT HE WILL HAVE BACK THE COLOMIES GERMANY LOST IN THE GREAT WAR OR FIGHT. IT IS A CRITICAL TIME IN THE WORLD AT PRESENT, WITH MUSSOLINI IN ITALY, HITLER IN GERMANY AND JAPAN RUNNING AMOK IN CHINA. TALKS OF THE PRESIDENT TRYING TO GET THE COUNTRY OUT OF THE DEPRESSION. HURRICAN IN NEW ENGLAND. NOV. 14, 1938, THE WHOLE CIVILIZED WORLD IS SHOCKED AT THE TREATMENT THAT GERMANY IS GIVING THE JEWS. DOING EVERYTHING TO THEM BUT KILLING THEM. IT IS HILTERISM RUN MAD. PROBABLY MOST OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE DO NOT APPROVE THIS, BUT THEY ARE HELPLESS TO APPOSE THE LEADERS. JAN. 3, 1939, IN THE P.M. ALICE BURNHAM TOOK OUR CAR AND TOOK MAY AND ME TO THE CHASE ATHLETIC FIELD, WHERE WE SAW SANBORN CRUSHINGLY DEFEAT 19-4. SANBORN BATTED THEM ALL OVER THE FIELD. ENGLAND HAS SUFFERED A TERRIBLE DISASTER WITH ONE OF HER SUBMARNES WHICH SANK, KILLING 99 MEN IN SPITE OF ALL EFFORTS TO RESCUE THEM. JAN. 17, 1940, FINLAND IS STILL DEFEATING THE RUSSIAN ARMIES SENT AGAINST HER AND HAS TAKEN A PIECE OF RUSSIAN TERRITORY. ENG. AND FRANCE ARE TIGHTENING THE RANK AROUND GERMANY SO IT IS BEGINNING TO HURT. ALMOST NO VESSELS REACH GERMANY AND ENG. SO REGULATED FOOD SUPPLIES TO THE NEUTRIAL NATIONS NEAR GERMANY, THAT THEY HAVE NONE TO SPARE. APRIL 9, 1940, I AM FEELING MUCH BETTER TODAY. ENGLAND IS RUSHING A FORCE TO AID NORWAY WHO HAS BEEN ATTACKED BY GERMANY. THE RADIO IS FILLED WITH CONFUSED REPORTS FROM ENGLAND AND GERMANY. THE GERMAN VESSEL 'THE BREMEN' IS REPORTED TORPEDOED BY THE BRITISH. EVIDENTALY THERE HAS BEEN A BIG NAVAL FIGHT BUT DETAILS ARE LACKING. EVIDENTLY THE WAR WILL MOVE RAPIDLY NOW. SEPT. 14, 1941, THE GERMANS AND THE RUSSIANS ARE FIGHTING FIERCELY BUT THE GERMANS HAVE NOT YET CAPTURED LENINGRAD, IMPORTANT RUSSIAN CITY AND THEY ARE LOSING MEN BY THE MILLIONS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAS ORDERED THE AMERICAN WAR SHIPS TO FIRE ON THE SUBMARNES AND THEIR WAR SHIPS IF FOUND IN OUR DEFENSE ZONE. DEC.9 1941, THERE WAS A RAID ALARM IN SOUTHERN N.H. AND EASTERN MASS. TODAY PLANES WERE REPORTED COMING IN TO BOMB BUT THEY DID NOT MATERILIZE. ON THE PACIFIC COAST A DROVE OF PARHABLE? JAP. PLANES WERE DRIVEN OFF BY ANTI AIRCRAFT FIRE SO NO BOMBS WERE DROPPED. THE PRESIDENT SPOKE AGAIN TONIGHT AT 10:00 WARNING THE PEOPLE OF THE DANGERS WE WERE FACING AND ADVISING TO KEEP CALM. AUG. 19, 1942, FOR THE FIRST TIME THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS FORMED A PART OF THE COMMANDOS WITH THE BRITISH AND THE CANADIANS IN RAIDING THE GERMAN ON COAST OF FRANCE. IT WAS A FIERCE FIGHT BUT THE COMPANY CAME BACK TO ENGLAND AS PLANNED. BIG ADDITIONS HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE ARMY IN AFRICA AND AN ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE SOON TO WIPE OUT ROMMELL'S GERMANS THERE. NOV. 29, 1942, AWFUL TRAGEDY THAT HAPPENED IN BOSTON, SATURDAY NIGHT A FIRE IN A NIGHT CLUB AT WHICH 440 PERSONS LOST THEIR LIVES, MOSTLY ON ACCOUNT OF A SWING REVOLVING DOOR AND THE FACT THAT THE CROWD WENT FRANTIC AND TRAMPLED EACH OTHER UNDER FOOT AND PILED UP AND SOFOCATED. THIS CONSECUTIVE SET OF 14 DIARIES ARE EXCEPTIONAL IN CONTENT AND A TRULY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE ART OF THE DIARIST. Hard Cover Manuscript

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