What do two murders, a kidnapping, and an immense fortune have to do with an aging lumberyard? Nothing, unless it is Fannelli's family-owned lumber yard, the oldest lumberyard in the country. Come along as young Jeremy Lingemi, the newest employee in the year 1977, tries to uncover, with the help of the old lumber company's spirits, the many answers. Who is doing the killings? Is the mob involved? And are they connected in any way to the owners of the Fannelli Lumberyard? Is there really a hidden fortune somewhere in the old lumber yard? And can the spirits lead Jeremy to the treasure before he, or anyone else, dies? Hidden deep inside are the answers to this deadly mystery.

This is a story of a boy growing up in a Boston suburb near where his ancestors had settled three centuries before. He attends elite private schools and Union Theological Seminary, training to be a Protestant pastor. He marries Annette and they raise four children in suburban Rochester and the inner-city neighborhoods of Buffalo, New York. They help Saul Alinsky create a mass-based community organization to empower the dispossessed. Annette teaches social work at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Always moving West, they settle in Berkeley, California. They lose their political innocence during the Vietnam War, join a commune and are blind-sided by the power of cults. The family backpacks every summer in the Sierra Nevada. Annette teaches in the University of California School of Public Health. Howard, trained now as a sociologist of religion, advises groups planning to begin new churches in West Coast suburbs. Through meditation, creative use of their imagination, and workshops at Esalen, they explore aspects of themselves that had been cut off by their East Coast upbringing. They move to Benicia, California, where Annette blocks the railroad tracks over which munitions trains pass; Howard has a compelling dream of descent into the Void. After his ten-year pastorate, they retire to Claremont, California, where Annette dies in 1997.

Extended essays and four-color photos highlight 75 buildings and sites on Minnesota's National Register of Historic Places, from the grand and polished to the simple and unadorned.

Adventure! Real-life adventures from history and fictitious adventures inspired by what could be! Journeys to captivate your mind, enthrall your spirit, and get the blood moving in your veins! This collection holds the best time-tested tales of adventure that have been read and reread by millions of readers throughout the ages. Beware! By opening this book, you risk immersing yourself in Robinson Crusoe’s incredible struggle to survive after being shipwrecked on a desert island; or discovering the witty and brave exploits of Robin Hood; or submerging yourself with the Nautilus on its underwater voyage. You might even find yourself answering the ancient call of your ancestors from a snowy ridge deep in the Yukon. Are you ready to brave the adventure? This collection includes: Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe Howard Pyle - The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels Jules Verne - A Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book Jack London - White Fang