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Eight Generations Revisited

By Dennis Ford

Eight Generations Revisited Memories

Eight Generations Revisited

By Dennis Ford

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Eight Generations Revisited continues thestory of our family published in 2011 inEight Generations and adds more thantwo centuries of details in the lives of ourancestors in Erin, Lietuva and America.Eight Generations Revisited leads fromnineteenth-century huts built of woodand thatch to the teeming tenementsof twentieth-century New Jersey andfrom turf fires and lime kilns to homecomputers and the Internet. The storyleads from naive superstitions taught inhedge schools to graduate degrees fromrenowned universities.There are no kings or queens in the story,only a chronology of princely people,none of whom escaped the events oftheir time. The townlands and villagesand cities where our ancestors lived areplaces enmeshed in the history of theirtime. Napoleon's invasion of Russia, thetrenches of World War One, the GreatDepression, the destroyers of World WarTwo, the social anarchy of the 1960s, thenuclear-powered carriers that carry warto our enemies-the story of our familyoccurs in this tumultuous context.Eight Generations Revisited leads frompeople born before the AmericanRevolution and it concludes-but it doesn'tconclude. The story that commences inthese pages progresses from the finitepast to the illimitable future that awaitsyoungsters who, with God's grace, will greetthe dawn of the twenty-second century.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
2025-04-23
Publication Date:
2025-04-23
Publisher:
iUniverse
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1663272492
ISBN13:
9781663272492
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
399 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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