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The famed Catskills guide now in a spooky curiosities edition

Join lovers Mike and Jeri as they discover the romantic true secrets of one of the great world capitals born of the civilization of the Aztecs and before them the rulers of the mysterious pyramids of Teotihuacan into modern times with world class artists like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as writers like Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz where not even systemic earthquakes or the city's gradual sinking into the Aztec lake it was built over can stop its march to world glory. Regarding the destruction of the Aztecs and their civilization, “A Genocide of course from my study of history, ...

The famed Catskills guidebook now in its expanded 5th edition with new attractions like the Catskills Visitor's Center with its adjacent Fire Tower and a section on the I-88 Corridor which includes Cooperstown, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Farmers Museum, the Iroquois Museum and Howe Caverns joining traditional sites like North Lake, Kaaterskill Falls, Hunter Mountain, Phoenicia, Woodstock, Overlook Mountain, the Esopus Creek, Belleayre Mountain, Margaretville. John Burroughs' Woodchuck Lodge, Slide Mountain, and historic Kingston and so much more in America's first vacationland. ...

Three celebrated Hudson Valley and Catskills classics. First a collection of Catskills essays with a regional guide, the author and his late wife Jeri’s memoir of their first year in the Hudson Valley, and finally a writer’s guide to the region from the Shawangunks to the Hudson Valley to the Catskills now in its Second Edition.

Mike and Jeri share their journeys through American history visiting historic sites, attending patriot events and honoring family members who served from the American Revolution to the present while campaigning, protesting and voting. "The person we had just purchased our historic 1841 John Adams style saltbox home from said that a flag had flown from this house since 9-11. We quickly asked him why the flag had not been flying before then. "A great tribute to your wife...describes the era of the 1960s...so well," - Gary A. Kulhanjian, Social Historian

The book studies infanticide through sacrifice, exposure and abortion in Ancient Greece and Rome. "A very informative book, it pertains to a controversial topic of infanticide... in ancient Greece and Roman times...looking at the past, Boyajian is cognizant of the future. A book for not only those who appreciate history but for the general reader and audience." -- Gary A. Kulhanjian, Social historian. Five star rating from Goodreads.

Released the day India landed on the moon, August 23, 2023 The Armenians of India: Merchants of Empires from the Age of Vishnu and Home Again, Second Edition, tells the story of the 2300 year relationship between India and its Armenians. The diaspora of Armenian merchants in India were at the center of a global trading network and at the center of their lives were their churches which remain as monuments to the diaspora in India. The Second Edition contains updated information on freemason Sir Catchick Paul Chater not just the greatest Armenian philantrphist and business leader of India and...

Why the term Sketch Book in the title of this book and not the term Notebook? Because Sketch Book is part of a book title by Washington Irving who was my late wife Jeri's favorite author and Notebook is associated with a title of a book by one of our greatest authors F. Scott Fitzgerald but not a favorite of Jeri's and this is a book about Jeri so her favorite author takes immovable precedent over all others. Though I should mention that it is a series of random notes more akin to F Scott’s Notebook. Regardless, Jeri was a noted New York artist who worked in wood construction, collage, ...

Husband and wife world travelers Mike and Jeri recount their amazing untold numbers of journeys into the occult world from the inner circle of Stonehenge to Loch Ness to Green-Wood Cemetery to Edgar Allan Poe’s home to Treadwell’s Books in London to the Freemasons to Madame Laveau’s Voodoo Tomb to a Coven of Witches to a ghost hunter and so much more as scientists exclaim that we are on the cusp of discovering the wonders of this other world.

Ten year old Gregory peers into a Free Library book box and is swept away into the the greatest adventure of his life in the fashion of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Before the author became a judge he interned during law school for Justice Charles Kuffner in Staten Island who was fascinated by Minor League Baseball so much so he gets the author hooked on the idea so that when the minor leagues arrive in New York City he and his late wife Jeri get heavily into the game going to see the Brooklyn Cyclones and the then Staten Island Yankees and when they move to the Hudson Valley they become season ticket holders for the local team the Renegades. This is their story about the game and the people they meet and the friends that sit with them. This crowd ...

The dreamed of golden age of the LGBTQ community having been achieved with near universal approval suddenly the Pride world finds itself targeted by extremists and a firewall holding back a flood of hate that may devastate America. These are the places of the LGBTQ world from the city bars to Fire Island and P Town to the rapidly expanding gay enclaves of the purple mountains of the Catskills. Now available in Kindle and paperback and hardcover within hours. “Without love you have hate” — Sal J. Calise Book Life reporting, “…Looks like an opus,” — Gary A Kulhanjian, Social ...

Mike and Jeri are the perennial Jimmy Stewart character from Its A Wonderful Life where Stewart just can’t get off the ground for a Grand Tour of Europe for his entire life. Lucky for Mike and Jeri good fortune falls their way and they are able to travel twice a year for many years including four trips to London and one to Edinburgh. There is some sort of progression from trip to trip but it’s not certain if it’s a good thing or bad. Booklife reports that, Michael Boyajian’s, The U.K. Progression, named by Amazon as NUMBER ONE NEW RELEASE among London book 24 hours after publication...

A recollection of the GOP party years from Rudy Giuliani and George Pataki to George W. Bush as the candidate journeys through the rough and tumble world of New York politics.Join our candidate as he guides us through the sometimes comic ups and downs of 1990s New York Republican politics while battling an illness in Homeric fashion.

History of Ancient Roman Funeral Practices Four star rating from Goodreads

Armenia had a 500 year history with Rome that was a struggle for survival which proved to be the precedent for survival for Armenia through to the present time. Includes 2021 conflict analysis and breaking 2022 genetic science updates. Booklife Reports: ”The study of Roman Armenia that I wrote many years ago has been so completely rewritten where it’s premise as to the survivorabiliy of the Armenian homeland is proven 2,000 years after its inception against the Roman Empire. This time though it is 2021 and the attack by Azerbaijan and Turkey forces using Turkish drones to disable the ...

The Armenian enclave of the Catskills as told both as a general guide and essays of the enchanted purple mountains that helped heal the survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and their descendants like an elixir of Mother Nature.

Translations of Armenian verse poetry into Haiku a new world fusion

The passage from the old millennium to the new millennium by the author and his wife Jeri, the LGBTQ community, technology, politics, the other world across the rainbow bridge, arts and literature and much more in a study of living history. Introduction by Sal J Calise “Enjoyed the narrative of the book…I in fact laughed a few times…The millennium part of the story is interesting…Love the inclusion of Pliny…Good creative writing with excellent humor in the story,” — Gary A Kulhanjian, Social Historian Amazon listing at Number One in Kindle LGBTQ Biographies and Memoirs and 16 ...

The now full color guide to historic and literary sites in New England. “Description of New England and especially highlights of the historic Boston with regional emphasis on American patriots, the hub of the American Revolution will motivate all readers. “—Gary A Kulhanjian, Social Historian. Churchill says Americans and the British are separated by a common language...Boyajian says Bostonians and New Yorkers are separated by a common language.