Then and Now Bible Maps: With Clear Plastic Overlays of Modern Day Cities and Countries

Then and Now Bible Maps: With Clear Plastic Overlays of Modern Day Cities and Countries
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Very helpful Bible Map Book - available many ways

A Great Asset to Bible Study.

Understanding Bible Geography

What you get is nice, wish there was more

Excellent

Then and Now Bible Maps: With Clear Plastic Overlays of Modern Day Cities and Countries

Manufacturer: Ascension Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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Timechart of Biblical History

ASIN: 1932645179

Book Description

Take an exciting journey back in time through the various places and events of the Bible! Here you will encounter colorful, user-friendly maps which show the political and religious development of the Holy Land, with helpful explanations of what was happening and why. Recently revised to reflect The Great Adventure Bible Timeline system, this Catholic edition will be a powerful tool in discovering the riches of Bible history.

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Very helpful Bible Map Book - available many ways.......2007-05-08

This Bible map book shows where places mentioned in the Bible are located today. This spiral-bound book contains 12 full-color Bible maps, each with a clear plastic overlay that shows modern-day cities and countries. Includes the following maps: * The Middle East during Old Testament Times * Overlay of modern-day Middle East * The Assyrian Empire, Babylonian Kingdoms and Persian Empire *Overlay of same areas with modern-day countries * The Holy Land during the time of the Old Testament * Overlays of United Kingdom, Divided Kingdom, modern-day Israel and surrounding countries * The Holy Land during the time of Jesus * Overlay of modern-day Holy Land * Paul's Journeys (Roman Empire at AD 60) * Overlay of modern-day Mediterranean area. The print is relatively large for an Bible atlas (not giant print, but not as bad as some Bible atlases).

This product is available many ways, so check the ISBN above and make sure you are ordering the correct one, because this review appears on several product pages.
* Spiral-bound book with clear plastic overlays - ISBN 1932645179 Then and Now Bible Maps: With Clear Plastic Overlays of Modern Day Cities and Countries
* Set of 12 Overhead Transparencies - ISBN 0965508234 Then and Now Bible Maps: Compare Bible Times with Modern Day (Then & Now Bible Maps at Your Fingertips)
* PowerPoint with more than 50 slides - ISBN 1890947733 Then and Now Bible Maps (PowerPoint)
* Pamphlet (color booklet to fit in the back of a Bible) - ISBN 1596361301 Then and Now Bible Maps

A Great Asset to Bible Study........2007-01-10

This book has been worth it's weight in gold in my study of the Bible, as it depicts the old world and the one that is now. It's really neat to see the territories that Abraham traveled so many years ago and compare them to the way things are today. I think this book is GREAT!! Also, the layout of the book is such that you can see on one page the changes that have taken place over the years to these areas; no flipping through 5 pages to see where areas/borders have changed. Everything is visually right in front of you on one page.

Understanding Bible Geography.......2006-12-06

Then and Now Bible Maps is an excellent resource for helping put Bible locations in perspective / make them come alive for the Bible reader. Even though I am not "tuned in" to geography, this book shows me where Old Testament and New Testament events occurred, what the places were named years ago, and what the places are now named. A rather short book of 16 actual map pages (with additional information), this book does help the Bible reader gain a better understanding of the world in Biblical times as well as aid in understanding how those long-ago events and places relate to Bible prophecy and what is going on in our world now. I purchased this book along with Rose Book of Bible Charts, Maps, and Time Lines. I recommend both books. In fact, I have purchased several more copies of each book to give as gifts!

What you get is nice, wish there was more.......2006-08-18

This book is perfect for any teacher or homeschooler to show students a comparison between a few views of the Middle East regions during Bible times and present day country lines. However, you don't get very much for your money. The book retails for about $20 new and for this you get 5 pages of political-style maps with plastic overlays for present day and a couple for times in between. I had just hoped for more than 16 pages for my money. On the positive side, "Then and Now Bible Maps" is good for quickly showing present day country lines with the use of plastic overlays, and for that reason, it's a very nice addition to your Bible Study library. It also has many interesting facts about both Old and New Testaments between the map pages. However, Hammond's "Atlas of the Bible Lands" is a nice supplement, and a better punch for your dollar, with about 40 pages of geographic-style maps(showing terrain) for about $9 new.

Excellent.......2006-07-30

I received the two Now Bible Maps way quicker than expected and they were just what I was looking for. I would do business with this seller again in a flash.

New York Then and Now (Then & Now Views)

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New York New York!.
A Brilliant inspired book!!
Wonderful!...but...
Wonderful photos, lovingly reproduced, bravo Dover!
Good, but there are better ones

New York Then and Now (Then & Now Views)
Edward B. Watson , and Edmund V. Gillon
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486233618

Book Description

Watch New York change before your eyes: 83 early Manhattan sites are set against 83 modern photos taken from same position: Times Square, Wall Street, Fifth Avenue, many more. Early photographs from 1875 to 1925 contrasted with 1976.

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New York New York!........2007-07-22

A very good Photographic book of the best city in the world, The then and now photo's are great.
Highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in New York, The city has changed in a big way in the last 100 years and this book captures this in everyway.
If your off to New York this book would great for you, go and find the place's in the book and check out to see how it has changed even more!.

A Brilliant inspired book!!.......2006-08-12

The idea of taking old photos of Manhattan from the 1800s or early 1900s and then locating the same places and photographing them again in the 1970s was a work of genius. Not only is it a valuable historical resources but endlessly interesting to note such things as the differing quality of the photography(the older photos are superior to the 70s photos)how the areas have changed or in some cases not changed and seeing what has survived and what has not. It is even more educational to note the obliterations that have taken place within the last thirty years since the book was published as oppossed to nearly 100 in other cases when one finds the locations today. A great book for research and for the ambitious historical explorer.

Wonderful!...but..........2005-07-25

I love 'then and now' books and this is the best one I've ever come across. The early photos are so clear and atmospheric, I feel totally transported back in time when I look at them.

Being able to compare what are mostly early twentieth century photographs with the photographs often taken from almost exactly the same viewpoint circa 1974-75 is fun and fascinating.

The mid-70's photographs have now taken on a wonderfully 'dated' quality of their own.

The only reason I give just four as opposed to five stars is because I felt a lot of areas were very much over-looked. I'd like to have seen something of the older parts of the West Village, the East Village, more of the Upper Eastside. Whereas there seem to be a lot of photographs of real 'no-man's land' districts that are rather lifeless.

I wish a follow up had been published to fill in the many holes.

But I love this book very much and never get tired of flipping through and noticing new things.

Wonderful photos, lovingly reproduced, bravo Dover!.......2005-01-17

Yes, the "now" photographs are 30 years old, But how great it is to be able to compare the same view in 1907, to 1974, to as you can see it in 2005! This book is a time capsule in itself, and in many ways even more interesting then when it was first published.

In the mid-seventies, New York City was not a particularly kind place. The city was going bankrupt, Central Park's lawns were mainly dirt with patches of crab grass, and the subways were covered in graffiti. This book takes me right back there. It's amazing to see how desolate Broadway north of Houston was in the mid seventies and then to experience it today as a boulevard of high-end shops. The same thing goes for the Ladies' Mile shopping district on Sixth Avenue: formerly thriving, forlorn in the seventies, restored and vital today.

The period photos are well chosen, with a ghostly, otherworldly quality. It's so hard to believe Manhattan could ever have been so bucolic, a city of horse-drawn carts in which church steeples were the tallest structures around.

If you want a book that focuses on today, check out "New York Changing" by Douglas Levere, in which he painstakingly "rephotographs" 81 of the scenes captured by the great Berenice Abbott in the thirties. It's an amazing work for New York buffs, a real treat. Using a period camera, Levere went to great lengths to recreate the same shots, aided in one instance by the driver of a double-decker bus who pretended to have mechanical difficulties so that Levere, perched on the top deck, had time to compose his shot. But even Levere's book is a time capsule in that he was working before and after September 11, and several photos show the World Trade Center in all its looming enormousness. Time doesn't stand still, and these books do what they can to document the all-too-fleeting moment.

Good, but there are better ones.......2004-06-09

A city that has changed and continues to change with the speed and energy that New York does, invites books like these. Gillion's and Watson's "New York Then and Now" is a collection of photos of scenes from days past juxtaposed with recent shots. For me there are two effects of this juxtaposition: one is a sense of loss. So many of the old structures, now gone, were beautiful. But, more strongly, is the sense of admiration for New York's eternal dedication to progress. "New York Then and Now" gives the reader an appreciation of the labor that has gone into the building of the greatest city on Earth. However, because this is a reprint of an older book, too many of the "Now" shots are just as obsolete as the "Then" shots. It sorely needs to be updated.

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And while you plan that summer vacation...
Lovely overview
Lacks Depth
This book is so fun!
Fascinating and beautifully executed

Cities: Then & Now
James Antoniou
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Then and Now: The Wonders of the Ancient World Brought to Life in Vivid See-Through Reproductions

ASIN: 078581115X

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History's most fascinating landmarks are brought to life in vivid see-through reconstructions in this richly illustrated series. Cities: Then & Now documents how places such as Rome, Prague, and San Francisco appeared in their initial changes and how they have changed throughout history.

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And while you plan that summer vacation..........2005-06-27

Visitors to cities throughout the world at times witness a bit of first-view traveler's remorse: dream locations rich in history and exotic aura are concealed from the naked eye by the over building of contemporary times. Author Jay Antoniou has capitalized on those potential disappointments in constructing this fine book that peels away the facades of now to rerun the cities to their original states of beauty.

By no means meant to cover every aspect of the cities represented in this artistic book, Antoniou selects special aspect of each of the eighteen cities he exhumes. Using a series of well-reconstructed transparent plastic overlays he first gives a history of the site, then proceeds to reconstruct the chosen area to allow us to view the original vista. In Athens he chooses the Agora of 435, In Rome the Imperial city circa 27 BC, in Istanbul the 6th century AD Hagia Sofia, in Jerusalem the Old City and Temple Mount of 1150, in Florence the city center with cathedral of 1425, In Barcelona the harbor and Old Ton of 1570, in Amsterdam the Old Town and harbor of 1630, In Mexico City the Zocalo and palace of 1700, in Paris the Champs-Elysees and the Louvre of 1740, in London the city circa 1750, in Washington DC the Capitol and Pennsylvania Avenue of 1860, in Sydney the Cove and city circa 1888, in Moscow the Moskva River in 1890, in Tokyo the layout of Nihombashi Street in 1909, in San Francisco the Market street and business district of 1916, in Hong Kong the waterfront in the 1920s, and in New York both Wall Street and Battery Park of 1930.

Almost anywhere you choose to visit is included and with the visuals comes much information and terminology that serves to greatly enhance the various cities explored. This fine book is sturdy enough to accompany you on your travels and is guaranteed to enhance your expectations of the wonders of the world's special places. Grady Harp, June 05

Lovely overview.......2002-09-06

I must have been deprived as a child because any form of "pop-up" (I am using that term generically) adult book really interests me.

This book travels through the past and almost-present in 18 international cities. In chronological order, we visit Athens, Rome, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Florence, Barcelona, Prague, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Paris, London, Washington D.C., Sydney, Moscow, Tokyo, San Francisco, Hong Kong and New York.

The author first gives a short description and history of each city, just before the overlay which depicts the past and shows architectural sites that no longer exist. The next page is the city as it is today. I found myself constantly flipping back and forth as I read the accompanying pages of text.

Each city's description is unique as the author gives us little tidbits about each in addition to the full background of development and changes.

For example, unique to Prague are the sections about The Royal Way and the Prague Defenestrations (throwing people out of windows when they made the citizens angry). Unique to Sydney is the article about the city's first architect. The history of the "squares" in London is explained and in the section about Paris, the significance of Versailles is explained (it had a huge influence on city design and planning all over the world).

A totally enjoyable and beautiful book.

Lacks Depth.......2001-06-25

I like this book because of it's uniqueness, but I can't help but think of how much better it could be. The text is weak and lacks any insight. To be honest, if there were no text, you wouldn't even notice.

The overlays are the most imporatant aspect and can be really iteresting. But they can also be fairly crude and limited. In the long run, I would rather see this technique applied to more travel books with multiple overlays for any city. For example if this technique was used for, say, Paris, and the overlays were used for many areas of the city, I think it would be fabulous. Also an expansion of the timeline, with more than one era shown would be really fun.

So I would have to say it's "eh" (shoulder shrug).

This book is so fun!.......2001-05-21

I got this book as a birthday present. As a total architecture nerd, I got SO into reading about the early metropolitan areas and how they've changed. A MUST-READ for any avid city-dweller, or a fellow architecture nerd. Definitely not a serious text on architecture or urbanism, but educational all the same.

Fascinating and beautifully executed.......2001-02-17

This book is marvelous.

Eighteen cities are depicted: Athens, Rome, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Florence, Barcelona, Prague, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Paris, London, Washington D.C., Sydney, Moscow, Tokyo, San Francisco, Hong Kong and New York. To each is devoted seven to nine pages of material which include a short history of the city, a description of major architectural features of the place, a half- to three quarter-page photograph of the present-day location and a high-quality overlay with depictions of structures now long gone.

The introduction discusses the evolution of the city and various influences which affected its development in different areas of the world.

The content of the text and the presentation make the history of these places dynamic and interesting; if you are interested in cities and/or history, this would be a wonderful addition to your collection.

Kansas City: Then & Now 2
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Great history of KC

Kansas City: Then & Now 2
Monroe Dodd
Manufacturer: Kansas City Star Books
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ASIN: 0974000914

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In 2001, Kansas City Star Books published Kansas City : Then & Now to wide public acclaim. Now, more than 10,000 copies later, Star Books' author and history editor Monroe Dodd has compiled the second edition of this great collection. Combing through local archives, Dodd selected scores of rare photographs from the Kansas City's past, many of them previously unpublished. He then photographed the same scenes as they appear today. From street corners to hillsides, from the tops of buildings and from the air - you'll see Kansas City as you've rarely seen it before.

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Great history of KC.......2007-10-04

I have both editions, and ehjoy them both. My only regret is that I don't have enough time to look them over more often.

Kansas City Then and Now (Then & Now Thunder Bay)

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Darlene Isaacson
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After rejecting proposed names like "Rabbitville" and "Possum Trot," civic leaders of Missouri's biggest trading post named their settlement the "Town of Kansas" in honor of the native Kansa Indians. That was then; today, Kansas City is said to have more fountains than any city in the world except for Rome.
See for yourself how much Kansas City's changed over the years in the latest title from the best-selling series, Then and Now.
Seventy-nine pairs of photographs illustrate then-and-now images of popular locations like the Harry S. Truman Residence, the Hannibal Bridge, and the Coates House Hotel.
Stop by Dick's Down Home Cook Shop back then and today and you'll witness major inner city renovations.
A magnificent panoramic view of landmark sculpture "The Scout" overlooking the city skyline and Penn Valley Park gives you a tremendous glimpse into the history of KC.
The Liberty Memorial, erected to honor the heroes of WWI, towers over the city at 217 feet tall. Discover how Kansas City looked when the monument was dedicated, and see how it looks today.
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Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now (Writer and the City)

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Three tales of Manhattan then and now
Three stories about living and dying in the City

Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now (Writer and the City)
Patrick McGrath
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Three tales of Manhattan then and now.......2007-01-31

The first story called The Year of the Gibbet takes the reader back to 1776 when King George's ships came to conquer Manhattan. It is the sad tale of a boy of ten whose mother becomes a traitor with the British in order to sustain her children.
The second story is that of Julius in the 1850s who falls in love with a girl below his rank, a fact which will lead his father to take an unpardonable measure. Love denied can make us mad indeed.
In the third story Danny Silver is the narrator's patient whose psychological problem originated in a suffocating maternal relationship. He observed the suffering of a woman he hired for sex, Kim Lee, was affected by it and launched himself in a reckless trajectory with her. The 9/11 terror attacks were so destructive on Danny's psyche that not only did he buy sex but bought a sort of emotional intimacy with a woman who was even more damaged than himself and mistook the comfort it gave him for love.
A stunning trio of tales, they are sly and thought-provoking because the author evokes the insanity and violence underlying the surface of everyday life.

Three stories about living and dying in the City.......2005-10-06

GHOST TOWN is part of Bloomsbury's Writer in the City series, in which a writer provides a story that captures the essence of a certain city. In this volume, Patrick McGrath takes on Manhattan and gives us three stories set at different times in the city's history, all of which concern a death. The way we die holds a mirror to how we live and each story provides a vivid picture of the age and the city.

"The Year of the Gibbet" takes place during a cholera epidemic. While waiting to succumb to the disease, Edmund reflects on the death of his mother and the role he played in it as a young boy. After the Battle of Long Island, in which the American forces narrowly escaped certain defeat under the cover of a providential storm, Edmund's mother gets involved in a plot to blow up the British ships holding New York harbor. Edmund's inability to lie spontaneously when he and his mother are questioned by British officers dooms her and she is hung as a traitor. Poor Edmund can never forgive himself for his guilelessness, even as his own time runs out.

"Julius" brings us to the Gilded Age. Julius is a puzzling disappointment to his father, a successful businessman. The boy's artistic personality inspires his sisters to rescue him by sending him to art school. The impressionable Julius is immediately smitten by his first nude model, a connection wholly inappropriate for a young man of his standing, and Julius's father seeks to put an end to it. The model disappears and Julius, devastated, loses his sanity. He is convinced that the model, Annie, has fallen victim to a sordid plot involving his art teacher and his father. When he lashes out in his own act of violence, he is confined in an asylum for decades. Upon his return to the house where he grew up, the world has passed him by but the truth of his experiences reverberates in the family legend: it is wrong to deny love.

Although the least gothic in tone, readers may find that "Ground Zero" is the most affecting of the stories as it deals with 9/11 and shows our own age's ghost stories in the making. Danny Silver has been seeing the same psychiatrist for years. He has intimacy issues, so his doctor is immediately suspicious when he claims to have fallen in love with a prostitute he hired a few days after the planes hit the World Trade Center. The prostitute has issues of her own, not the least being her claim that she is being haunted by a former client, a man who left her bed on 9/11 and went directly to work on the 104th floor. Everyone in this triangle is wounded in some way but the psychiatrist's plight is the most heart-rending. She's too close to Danny and expresses her concern in a way that inevitably drives him further into his troubled relationship.

The stories in GHOST TOWN are marked by a shared sense of loss and distance. Readers familiar with Patrick McGrath's earlier works will recognize his interest in violence and madness, as well as his formidable talent.

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Kansas City: Then & Now
Monroe Dodd
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Experience a Kansas City of long ago but not so far away in this new paperback edition of a local bestseller. Through these historic images - paired with photographs of the same scenes today - you'll see how a town became a metropolis. More than 110 photographs dating as far back as 1860s show fascinating scenes from the past. Each scene was then rephotographed in 2000.

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Fascinating and at times a little sad
Great photography and keepsake

Twin Cities Then and Now (Minnesota)
Larry Millett
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From Larry Millett, author of the award-winning Lost Twin Cities, comes this fascinating book that explores the history of Minneapolis and St. Paul from the vantage point of their streets. "Because of their relative stability, streets offer an incomparable framework for looking at the urban past and comparing it to the present," writes Millett in his introduction to Twin Cities Then and Now, which consists of seventy-two historic street scenes matched with new photographs taken from the same locations. Accompanying each scene is an informative essay that examines the often astonishing changes wrought by time and circumstance.

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Fascinating and at times a little sad.......2000-01-16

I thought this book was very interesting, and not at all something that would appeal only to Minnesotans. It's sometimes hard to remember just how rapidly the neighborhoods and infrastructure of American cities have changed in the last hundred years, and seeing the movement documented is really fascinating. As the authors point out in an early chapter, nothing in a city is permanent, sometimes not even the streets themselves. The book does have some unhappy overtones. Like other cities, Minneapolis-St. Paul have chosen at times to simply bulldoze seedy areas of town and fill them with bland new buildings rather than try to redevelop them. New is not always better, for the city or its inhabitants. It's sad to see a block of aging but still beautiful turn-of-the century commerical buildings give way to cold-looking open spaces, or a stately mansion lawn turn into a weed-choked hillside behind a college. But this book is excellent whether you are interested in social commentary or just amazed at how quickly cities change to meet our changing needs.

Great photography and keepsake.......1998-02-17

I'm reading this book for Augsburg College's history of the Twin Cities. I think the photography is first class and I love reading this book. It is one of few class reading I enjoy (as well as Larry Millett's Lost Twin Cities). Lewis Nelson

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A Taste of Kansas City Then and Now

Manufacturer: Children's Center for the Vis. Impared
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 0972737405

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Not just recipies but much history of Kansas City restaurants and cusine, spiral bound with hard cover.

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Picture Perfect Childhood Memories of Harpers Ferry

Harpers Ferry (WV) (Then and Now)
Dolly Nasby
Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing
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ASIN: 0738544140
Release Date: 2007-04-23

Book Description

Although many towns have changed dramatically from the way they are depicted in old photographs, Harpers Ferry is an exception. Thanks to restorations by the National Park Service, the Lower Town appears much as it did in 1859. Established in 1763 as Â“Shenandoah Falls at Mr. HarperÂ's Ferry,Â” the town became the site of one of Pres. George WashingtonÂ's arsenals and armories. Later Harpers Ferry was the location for John BrownÂ's ill-fated raid.

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Picture Perfect Childhood Memories of Harpers Ferry.......2004-02-15

In this pictorial history book the author truly captures the essence of Harper's Ferry, West Viriginia: bucolic and rustic scenery mixed with a violent past. The historic information in the captions enlighten the reader. A must-have for all those who visit or want to. A++ for entertaining and educational value. I really enjoyed the Jefferson Rock pictures as they remind me of happy family picnics.

For my guests I will have this book readily available for my day trip to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.

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