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A history of Armenian masonry that goes back to the legendary origins of Noah to the operative stone masons to the speculative masons to the lodges of the 1800s, their destruction during the genocide, and their revival in 1991.

Sybil Ludington rode further and longer than Paul Revere to warn of the approaching British saving the entire Hudson Valley in the American Revolution helping to upend Britain’s plan to capture the Hudson River and destroy the patriots by dividing New England from the rest of the colonies. An incredible achievement of riding, Stacey Romeo,Championship rider, trainer and instructor.

Now in its Third Edition this work has improved text and images at a reduced paperback cost. The 6,000-year history of the Armenian people going back archaeological wine making finds in caves to some say Noah’s ark landing on the sacred Armenian mountain Ararat and co-existing with Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines and even Ottomans. At one time the Armenians had a trading empire that went from India to Moscow. Then came catastrophe with the 1915 Genocide where the Ottomans wiped out 1.5 million Armenians after which there was the long road to recovery beginning in Paris and elsewhere ...

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. ...

Join the author on his dharma journey of discovery as he treats his depression with Western methods and Tibetan Buddhism learned with his wife from the teachings of the Dalai Lama, Robert Thurman, Allen Ginsberg, and the lamas of the KTC Monastery in the Hudson Valley.

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 ...

Armenian Edessa was a Christian city overrun by Muslims. The church called for a crusade to rescue the city and the Knights Templar would guide and protect these crusaders and the Armenians.

Join the author and his two black cats, Percey and Minerva, as they tear through the home of Mike and Jeri oblivious to the other cats living there, Winston, Brigid and Ulysses and again work through the catastrophic loss of the other cats as well as Mike's wife Jeri.

Discover the fascinating history of the Fishkill Supply Depot, a strategic supply depot during the Revolutionary War.

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 ...

Fleeing the Turks who were conducting the Armenian Genocide the Armenian people were given an offer they couldn’t refuse from Russia or the Soviet Union if you will. The Russians would protect Armenia but the country had to fall inside the Soviet empire’s Iron Curtain whereas Armenia survived but disappeared into the Russian gulag for decades before the light of freedom was born again for Armenians.

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.

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.

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 ...

Fire Island and P-Town are being eclipsed in popularity as a new LGBTQI+ summer getaway Mecca grows throughout the purple mountains of the Catskills, America's first vacation land just 90 minutes from New York City the Catskills are protected by the New York State Constitution as Forever Wild and are a European style checkerboard park of private and public lands inside a so called Blue Line boundary 700,000 acres in size with over 40 percent of the land protected as forest preserve. This famed Catskill Guide is now in its fourth edition released now as a special LGBTQI+ Pride Edition that ...

Join the author and his late wife Jeri as they journey on the Tibetan Buddhism Dharma Path grappling with scripture that frowns on attachments and impermanence and any negative impact they will have on Mike and Jeri’s love for each other spanning almost 40 years and how through meditation, contemplation and study they work through these issues and their love reigns supreme.

Join the author as he discovers his dad Harry's military service for the entirety of World War II as an Army Air Corps Airman designated as a radio operator in the North Africa campaign who witnessed his best friend killed on the runway whereupon as soon as he completed his required 2,200 air time hours pushed back against pressure to do another 2,200 hours and landed service as a jeep driver for the rest of the war. The next flight that his crew mates flew out on urging him to join them but which he refused was a gold shipment that disappeared and was never found again. A lot of Harry's ...

Translations of Armenian verse poetry into Haiku a new world fusion

The author and his wife Jeri have traveled throughout Europe but now Jeri wants to go to a place that has enchanted her since she discovered her favorite writer, Washington Irving, and learned of the magical ruins that he convinced the world to restore. Join the travelers on their most romantic journey to date as they sit in each others embrace beneath the ink black Andalusia sky. The Alhambra Ranked number 58 by Amazon in Andalusia category

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 ...