Ernest F. Swartz (1916-2008) was born in Peabody, Kansas. Always an adventurer, often spending months at a time in Alaska with family and friends, he drove the Alaska Highway when it was still a gravel road! He also enjoyed climbing mountains, hunting and fishing, picking wild huckleberries, and traveling. His atlas was all marked up with highlighted routes and calculated distances.
He raised his family of seven children in Pennsylvania, then moved to Florida in the 1970s. His first wife passed away from cancer, and he remarried soon after. Sarasota, Florida was home, where he enjoyed fishing, reading, and tending his fruit trees. When he sold his home and moved into a retirement community, he took his citrus trees with him. Aviana is just one of his many great-grandchildren.
Long before adrenaline junkies and daredevils captivated the world, there were aeronauts—pioneers of the skies who thrilled audiences with their hot air balloon and parachute stunts. History has largely forgotten these fearless performers, who traveled with state fairs and vaudeville shows. However, thanks to the meticulous research of T. M. Jacobs, the daring exploits of aeronaut J. J. Fanning are now immortalized.
Because of Tim Jacobs' dedication to uncovering the story of J. J. Fanning, we can experience the thrill and excitement of Fanning's adventures as if we were there, watching him soar above the fairgrounds. Jacobs' work ensures that the legacy of J. J. Fanning, and those like him, will continue to inspire and amaze us for years to come.
Join Toby in her adventurous life filled with happiness, blessings, lessons, and love. Although her life got off to a shaky start, she remained strong and built a wonderful family and countless friendships which have endured over the years. From Bad to Wonderful: Life Goes On For Toby Ignal is a true labor of love for Toby. She tells her life story as she remembers it. More than a stroll down memory lane, this is Toby’s life with the curtain pulled back. Her story is bound to make you smile and cry, only to smile again, but much wider. So, sit back and enjoy this ride!
Toby Greenberg Ignal was born in New Haven, Connecticut, during WWII. She worked at Yale New Haven Hospital before retiring and moving to Florida. She now enjoys spending time with her friends, husband Alan, daughter, and granddaughter. This is Toby’s first book.
Come take a journey with Captain Al and Blue as they share the joys and heartaches of their time aboard the M/V Good Samaritan, Mercy Ship’s smallest vessel. Serving from 1988 through 1991, they lived aboard the ship and traveled the Amazon and the Caribbean with a loving and dedicated crew of 28. Later, the M/V Good Samaritan was renamed the M/V Island Mercy, where she served in the South Pacific.
From very humble beginnings, Sam Puckett chose to be more and do more, and his life’s journey reflects that. You would call it miraculous, and those miracles have a way of following Sam around. These pages record just some of the outlandish, crazy, what-are-the-odds, impossible things that Sam walked through. Yes, they are miracles, and it’s all true.
You will be encouraged, motivated, maybe challenged, and perhaps even cry, but don’t stop there. Trust that if it could happen to Sam, it could happen to you! Sam simply stepped out. It all happened on the road with Sam.
This biography of Michael Fryga inspires us to stand up to the challenges in life we face so that we may fulfill the greater purpose God has in store for us.
Every person’s life has value and our experiences bolster us up to support others through their difficult times in a difficult world. God will empower you!
Virginia Smalls was a Godly Woman, an Entrepreneur, and a Mother. She was all of that and more. Everything about her reflected those inner qualities. She was a true GEM! She gave, she reared children, and she preached. People saw her in action with her many hats on all the time.
Her husband and children and her friends, her customers, and her church family called her blessed.
She passed away on January 30, 2013. She ran the race and fought the good fight. She set the stage for her legacy to continue and she saw nothing else to improve on or that needed her attention. Her life was a life worth telling.
Carol’s Playlist follows the quiet arc of a woman shaped by the rhythms of the 1950s and 1960s, including music, motherhood, and art. Carol never sought a spotlight. Her life, marked by deep relationships and the slow fade of Alzheimer’s, resonates with quiet grace and strength.
Her daughter, Lynn, a ghostwriter who captures life stories for others, writes this memoir with the love and perspective of a loving daughter. Part of Lynn's Echoes & Journeys series, this book is both remembrance and invitation. We each carry moments, melodies, memories, and milestones that deserve to be honored. Lynn hopes that Carol’s Playlist inspires readers to reflect, remember, and write their own story before the notes fade through memory and time.
Marcus Harris: Beyond Fifty Years in Wool and Fur is both a business memoir and a family story. First published in 1944, the book visits the challenges and triumphs faced by an entrepreneur who entered into the wool and fur trade in America during a period of social and economic transformation.
Marcus's great-granddaughter, Lynn, offers this book as part of her Echoes & Journeys series, dedicated to preserving the voices and stories that might otherwise be lost. Lynn believes the memories, stories, choices, and values passed down through families are the foundation of legacy.
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