Author: Morris L. Venden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780936785929
Category : End of the world
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Last Trolley Out
Author: Morris L. Venden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780936785929
Category : End of the world
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780936785929
Category : End of the world
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Trolley Days
Author: Robert T. McMaster
Publisher: Unquomonk Press
ISBN: 0985694408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
"A joyful, engaging read from beginning to end...." Mark Ashton, Southbridge Evening News "If you love period pieces then this is the book for you..." Mary Haggerty, Goodreads.com Trolley Days is the story of an unlikely friendship between two boys growing up in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in its industrial heyday. Jack Bernard is the son of a mill worker who emigrated from Canada, Tom Wellington the son of the mill owner. Jack is shy and socially a bit awkward, Tom self-assured and smooth-talking. But for all their differences, the two boys have much in common. They love fishing, sports, and all manner of youthful tomfoolery. Each has suffered the loss of a sibling, tragedies that have affected both families deeply. In the opening chapter a blizzard is approaching as Jack boards a train for the long trip to Boston. He has received a cryptic letter informing him that Tom is in a Boston jail. Despite a recent falling-out between the two, Jack still considers Tom his best friend, and he refuses to allow a snowstorm to prevent him from going to Tom's aid. Soon Jack will be plunged into a mystery that calls on all his courage and determination to solve, even as his friend's life hangs in the balance. To save his friend, Jack will need the assistance of Tom's sister, Anne, but that will require Jack and Anne to reconcile their fractured relationship. Does friendship have its limits? Can bonds of trust, once broken, be repaired? Can we learn from life's tragedies and move on, or must we carry them like lead weights on our hearts forever? In "Trolley Days" it seems it is the young who bear the heaviest of life's burdens and must marshal the strength to free themselves and their parents.
Publisher: Unquomonk Press
ISBN: 0985694408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
"A joyful, engaging read from beginning to end...." Mark Ashton, Southbridge Evening News "If you love period pieces then this is the book for you..." Mary Haggerty, Goodreads.com Trolley Days is the story of an unlikely friendship between two boys growing up in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in its industrial heyday. Jack Bernard is the son of a mill worker who emigrated from Canada, Tom Wellington the son of the mill owner. Jack is shy and socially a bit awkward, Tom self-assured and smooth-talking. But for all their differences, the two boys have much in common. They love fishing, sports, and all manner of youthful tomfoolery. Each has suffered the loss of a sibling, tragedies that have affected both families deeply. In the opening chapter a blizzard is approaching as Jack boards a train for the long trip to Boston. He has received a cryptic letter informing him that Tom is in a Boston jail. Despite a recent falling-out between the two, Jack still considers Tom his best friend, and he refuses to allow a snowstorm to prevent him from going to Tom's aid. Soon Jack will be plunged into a mystery that calls on all his courage and determination to solve, even as his friend's life hangs in the balance. To save his friend, Jack will need the assistance of Tom's sister, Anne, but that will require Jack and Anne to reconcile their fractured relationship. Does friendship have its limits? Can bonds of trust, once broken, be repaired? Can we learn from life's tragedies and move on, or must we carry them like lead weights on our hearts forever? In "Trolley Days" it seems it is the young who bear the heaviest of life's burdens and must marshal the strength to free themselves and their parents.
The Railway Police and The Last Trolley Ride
Author: Hortense Calisher
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480437417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
DIVDIVTwo novellas from award-winning author Hortense Calisher offering very different journeys: the first looking hopefully forward, and the second, into a painful past/divDIV The characters in these two novellas take introspective, poignant excursions both to where they want to be (The Railway Police) and where they have been (The Last Trolley Ride). In the first, a woman with hereditary premature baldness decides to embrace her unadorned head and hopes to start a fresh life without attachments to the trappings of days gone by. In the second, an elderly man with a working replica of a trolley line in his basement reminisces about the fateful last ride he took on that very line many years ago. In both stories, Calisher probes the characters’ senses of isolation from their respective worlds./divDIV/div/div
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480437417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
DIVDIVTwo novellas from award-winning author Hortense Calisher offering very different journeys: the first looking hopefully forward, and the second, into a painful past/divDIV The characters in these two novellas take introspective, poignant excursions both to where they want to be (The Railway Police) and where they have been (The Last Trolley Ride). In the first, a woman with hereditary premature baldness decides to embrace her unadorned head and hopes to start a fresh life without attachments to the trappings of days gone by. In the second, an elderly man with a working replica of a trolley line in his basement reminisces about the fateful last ride he took on that very line many years ago. In both stories, Calisher probes the characters’ senses of isolation from their respective worlds./divDIV/div/div
The Last Electric Trolley
Author: Junius Rochester
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964895027
Category : Denny-Blaine (Seattle, Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964895027
Category : Denny-Blaine (Seattle, Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Last Trolley from Beethovenstraat
Author: Grete Weil
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567920314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
And it was there that he came to the realizations about himself, his past, and his heritage that give this story its profound resonance.
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567920314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
And it was there that he came to the realizations about himself, his past, and his heritage that give this story its profound resonance.
The Public Service Trolley Lines in New Jersey
Author: Edward Hamm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780933449299
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780933449299
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Trolley Car Family
Author: Eleanor Clymer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The story of the Parker family who live in a trolley car.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The story of the Parker family who live in a trolley car.
Us vs. the Rest of the World
Author: Julia Cowan
Publisher: BLKDOG Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Maddie knows about loss. Still coping with the death of her father, her world starts to go horribly wrong in more ways than she could have imagined. The adults who have always defined her are acting strange and then… are simply not there at all. Now living with her older sister and a small group of friends, they must work together to find depths of resilience as their community battle to survive. There must be an answer to the chaos that is erupting around them – it is just a matter of finding it.
Publisher: BLKDOG Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Maddie knows about loss. Still coping with the death of her father, her world starts to go horribly wrong in more ways than she could have imagined. The adults who have always defined her are acting strange and then… are simply not there at all. Now living with her older sister and a small group of friends, they must work together to find depths of resilience as their community battle to survive. There must be an answer to the chaos that is erupting around them – it is just a matter of finding it.
Future Film Fiction
Author: Ian Clinton
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412029082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Future Film Fiction is a collection of short stories that will interest both the novel-loving reader, and the movie-going public. Its unique layout offers four times the pleasure.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412029082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Future Film Fiction is a collection of short stories that will interest both the novel-loving reader, and the movie-going public. Its unique layout offers four times the pleasure.
Trolley Days in Pasadena
Author: Charles Seims
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The name Pasadena evoked images of wonder and excitement to millions of Americans living at the turn of the 20th century. At the end of a railroad journey through a thousand miles of desert lay the Crown City of California. Its great hotels were unsurpassed for their elegance and service. Driveways of palatial homes wound down to palm-lined streets filled with carriages and limousines. Pasadena was as close to paradise as America had to offer. Founded in 1874 by a small group of transplanted Indianans, Pasadena began as an agricultural center. But its refreshing climate and unique geography attracted a parade of visionaries and con artists who soon left their mark on the story of a budding city. After completion of the Santa Fe Railway's transcontinental link via Pasadena, the boom of the 1880s brought a rise in property values, and with it grandiose real estate and transportation schemes. Steam railways were built to provide direct rail service to downtown Los Angeles. Then came California's first electric interurban, with local lines replacing horsecar systems, and then Henry E. Huntington united the electric railways of Southern California to form his famous Pacific Electric Railway. Also presented is the story of the city itself, with its great hotels, homes, the Rose Parade, and life in the San Gabriel Valley.--From publisher description.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The name Pasadena evoked images of wonder and excitement to millions of Americans living at the turn of the 20th century. At the end of a railroad journey through a thousand miles of desert lay the Crown City of California. Its great hotels were unsurpassed for their elegance and service. Driveways of palatial homes wound down to palm-lined streets filled with carriages and limousines. Pasadena was as close to paradise as America had to offer. Founded in 1874 by a small group of transplanted Indianans, Pasadena began as an agricultural center. But its refreshing climate and unique geography attracted a parade of visionaries and con artists who soon left their mark on the story of a budding city. After completion of the Santa Fe Railway's transcontinental link via Pasadena, the boom of the 1880s brought a rise in property values, and with it grandiose real estate and transportation schemes. Steam railways were built to provide direct rail service to downtown Los Angeles. Then came California's first electric interurban, with local lines replacing horsecar systems, and then Henry E. Huntington united the electric railways of Southern California to form his famous Pacific Electric Railway. Also presented is the story of the city itself, with its great hotels, homes, the Rose Parade, and life in the San Gabriel Valley.--From publisher description.