Author: Ella Catherine Griesemer MartindalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Griesemers
Author: Ella Catherine Griesemer MartindalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Annals of the Oley Valley in Berks County, Pa
Author: Philip Columbus CrollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berks County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Genealogy of the Griesemer, Fisher, Deuel, McDonald and Allied Families
Author: Chester Deuel GriesemerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Keim and Allied Families in America and Europe
Author: Report
Author: The Farmer's Voice
Author: Signal & Noise
Author: John GriesemerPublisher: Picador
ISBN: 1429961309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Signal & Noise is the epic page-turning story of the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable, and the men and women who are caught in its monumental tide. It is also a novel about the collision of worlds seen and unseen: the present and the future; the living and the dead; the real and the imagined. On a wet London morning in 1857, American engineer Chester Ludlow arrives on the muddy banks of the Isle of Dogs to witness the launch of the largest steamship ever built, the Great Eastern. Also amidst the tumultuous throng is Jack Trace, a lonely bachelor and sketch artist hoping to make his name as an illustrator and journalist in the hurly burly of Fleet Street. Other witnesses include a drunken German by the name of Marx; the child who will christen the massive vessel by the wrong name; and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the ship's apoplectic and dwarfish architect who will soon die in ignominy. As chief engineer for the Atlantic Cable Company, the charismatic Chester enters the orbit of business and showmanship embodied by J. Beaumol Spude, the bombastic Western beef magnate who will mastermind the funding of the project; Joachim Lindt, creator of the Phantasmagorium, an animated tableaux vivant; and his beautiful wife, the musician Katerina Lindt. Drawn by the demands and adventure of creating the first transoceanic telegraph, Chester leaves behind his fragile wife, Franny, at the family estate of Willing Mind in Maine. Abandoned and still mourning the accidental death of their four-year-old daughter, Franny finds solace in the company of Chester's troubled brother, Otis, who introduces her to the mysteries of the world of spiritualism just as séancing is becoming all the rage in the jittery times leading up to the Civil War. As Chester achieves renown as the glamorous engineer of the trans-Atlantic project, Franny, desperate to contact her dead child, becomes the preeminent spirit conjuror of a war-torn America.
Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical, Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania
Author: The Martindales
Author: Ella Catherine Griesemer MartindalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Joseph Martindale, born at St. John's Chapel on February 29, 1824 married Ann Watson on July 5, 1845. They emigrated from Liverpool, England to America, arriving in New York May 3, 1853.
Southeastern Berks County
Author: Patricia Wanger SmithPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439634432
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Berks County was established in 1752 from portions of Chester, Lancaster, and Philadelphia Counties, but its early settlers had already left their marks on the area. Southeastern Berks County covers a mythical trip between the villages Oley, Englesville, Exeter, Yellow House, Earlville, Amityville, Douglassville, Pine Forge, Little Oley, Greshville, Moreysville, Boyertown, Gabelsville, Shanesville, and Pleasantville. It examines why people settled here and how they lived, worked, and enjoyed themselves 100 years ago. The trip, taken through the medium of vintage postcards, may be traveled today by car.