Member: killearnan

You have a most interesting background and library. I suspect we share some premises.

posted by lawecon at 9:27 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2012

Dear Killearnan:

I noticed that you have James & Patricia Deetz's "The Times of Their Lives" on your reading list, so I thought you might be interested in a book I wrote, "Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America." It's been getting very good reviews and ratings here at LibraryThing and over at Goodreads.com.

You can read excerpts at NLLibrarium.com/librarything/thanksgiving.html . You can order it there, too, at a special discount offered to anybody who agrees to write a review of the book.

Note that is NOT a book about a holiday. it's about a bunch of PEOPLE and everything they did, everything that happened to them, in every detail I could find about them.

Let me add that this would be a good Father's Day gift for any fathers you happen to know who have an interest in history or the founding of America. What could be better for fathers than forefathers? If you get it as a gift, I recommend the hardcover edition, which has a red ribbon bookmark in it - the kind of book a father will want to pass on to a daughter or son. I'll be glad to sign the book and write a dedication in it. Just let me know what to write ("For my favorite forefather," for example, or "For my nephew the father" or whatever you like.)

As you'll see from the excerpts, it's a different kind of history - very graphic and dramatic but always sticking strictly to the facts. It's a book for everyone, not just historians. It covers just about every known detail about what happened in that crucial year between the landing of the Mayflower and the famous harvest feast of the following autumn.

I hope you get a chance to read it.

Sincerely,

Glenn Alan Cheney
Hanover, Conn.

posted by GlennCheney at 3:13 pm (EST) on May 28, 2010

Hi - saw your post regarding The Accidental Florist at the Worst Books thread. Actually, I thought the previous two were so bad that this one was a marginal improvement ... think D- to a solid D.

posted by Seajack at 11:15 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2007

You have a wonderful collection of Judaica. There are so many books there to add to my own TBR list. Thanks!

posted by kageeh at 1:56 pm (EST) on Feb 28, 2007

Seeing we own a book in common--true Baptism and Communion a very small hard back pamphlet. I know my great grandmother (Susannah Morris) was Quaker and withdrawn from when she married my g grandfather David Owen Randolph, Musgingham (?) Co., Ohio. I believe this may have been her book. Do you have any info date of publication or about Phipps?? Do you have family info on Quaker in that area??

posted by lhr3 at 5:51 pm (EST) on Feb 7, 2007

Hi! Thanks for joining Used Books.

posted by Hermgirl at 8:54 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2006

Thanks for joining The Gene Pool, I look forward to getting to know you. Jaysee

posted by Jaysee at 3:15 pm (EST) on Sep 14, 2006

Oh good. I thought there ought to already be a Philadelphia group, but I didn't find it when I searched.

posted by froggie at 9:12 am (EST) on Jul 28, 2006

I was very impressed with your Judaica collection. I noted that the tag appeared twice, one tag indicated 129 books, and the other 139 books. It also indicated that we had 13 books in common, but when I attempted to view them, I sawnone of them an got an error message. I did go through the entire catagory and found it quite different from my Judaism listing. I did pick some titles that I would like to own. You also have an interesting homepage.

posted by regott at 11:17 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2006

Great collection. I was intrigued by the wonderful Judaica and the Quaker and others until I read your blog which helped explain things.

posted by stephen18 at 7:33 pm (EST) on Jan 13, 2006