Palatine, Illinois - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Palatine, Illinois write by Palatine Historical Society. This book was released on 2002. Palatine, Illinois available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moving toward the future while maintaining its historic past, Palatine, Illinois, was incorporated in 1866 and has seen great change and growth through the years. That change is captured here in a collection of vintage and contemporary images that trace the evolution of this Midwestern farm village into a big city suburb. Authored by the Palatine Historical Society and Alice Rosenberg, Palatine, Illinois: Then and Now illustrates how the area looked when it was first settled, how it developed through the years, and what it has become. From the generations of Palatine residents who lived, worked, and played in the area to the thriving municipality they created, the images contained in this book bring to life a fascinating evolution.
Plum
Plum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plum write by Sean Hayes. This book was released on 2018-10-16. Plum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An adorable children’s book…about the holidays, inclusion, and magic!” —Kristen Bell, award-winning actress from Frozen and The Good Place “Want to make this holiday more magical? Then get your copy!” —Allison Janney, award-winning actress from Mom and I, Tonya “Great for kids this holiday season!” —Jessie Tyler Ferguson, award-winning actor from Modern Family From Will & Grace star Sean Hayes and composer Scott Icenogle comes a modern classic inspired by The Nutcracker about how the Sugar Plum Fairy got her wings. Plum will not stay glum. For as long as she can remember, Plum has lived at the Mary Fitzgerald Orphanage, wishing and hoping for a family. When a sudden snowfall threatens a delivery of presents on Christmas Eve, Plum is determined to save Christmas—even for the kids who laugh at her. Plum’s pure heart grants her an unexpected reward. When she eats a cake left behind by a mysterious magician, she is transported into the Land of Sweets. But Christmas here is threatened, too—by a sourness that is spreading from the center of the land. Plum’s determined to help, and in doing so, she might just find the family she’s always dreamed of, thanks to a good heart—and Christmas magic!
Old Maud
Old Maud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Maud write by Richard Whitney. This book was released on 1992. Old Maud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Flood Insurance Study (Type 15), Palatine, Illinois
Flood Insurance Study (Type 15), Palatine, Illinois - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flood Insurance Study (Type 15), Palatine, Illinois write by Howard E. Allen. This book was released on 1972. Flood Insurance Study (Type 15), Palatine, Illinois available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Palatine Wreck
The Palatine Wreck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Palatine Wreck write by Jill Farinelli. This book was released on 2017-09-05. The Palatine Wreck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island, twelve miles off the Rhode Island coast. The ship carried emigrants from the Palatinate and its neighboring territories in what is now southwest Germany. The 105 passengers and crew on board-sick, frozen, and starving-were all that remained of the 340 men, women, and children who had left their homeland the previous spring. They now found themselves castaways, on the verge of death, and at the mercy of a community of strangers whose language they did not speak. Shortly after the wreck, rumors began to circulate that the passengers had been mistreated by the ship's crew and by some of the islanders. The stories persisted, transforming over time as stories do and, in less than a hundred years, two terrifying versions of the event had emerged. In one account, the crew murdered the captain, extorted money from the passengers by prolonging the voyage and withholding food, then abandoned ship. In the other, the islanders lured the ship ashore with a false signal light, then murdered and robbed all on board. Some claimed the ship was set ablaze to hide evidence of these crimes, their stories fueled by reports of a fiery ghost ship first seen drifting in Block Island Sound on the one-year anniversary of the wreck. These tales became known as the legend of the Palatine, the name given to the ship in later years, when its original name had been long forgotten. The flaming apparition was nicknamed the Palatine Light. The eerie phenomenon has been witnessed by hundreds of people over the centuries, and numerous scientific theories have been offered as to its origin. Its continued reappearances, along with the attention of some of nineteenth-century America's most notable writers-among them Richard Henry Dana Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier, Edward Everett Hale, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson-has helped keep the legend alive. This despite evidence that the vessel, whose actual name was the Princess Augusta, was never abandoned, lured ashore, or destroyed by fire. So how did the rumors begin? What really happened to the Princess Augusta and the passengers she carried on her final, fatal voyage? Through years of painstaking research, Jill Farinelli reconstructs the origins of one of New England's most chilling maritime mysteries.
