Famous People, Family and Friends is the fourth book in the Gramma Larson Remembers series. Helen O. Larson was born in 1910 in the Village of Rockland in the Town of Scituate, Rhode Island. She wrote her first poem in the summer of 1923 at the age of twelve as her village was being torn down to construct the Scituate Reservoir. In her later years she picked up the handle of being called Gramma Larson. During her 82 years of writing rhymes, she wrote about many things. This book is broken down into three books: Famous People & More, Family, and Friends. The second book, Family, is in four chapters; her sons, Paul and Raymond, her Grandchildren, and her Great Grandchildren. In each category the rhymes are chronologically listed by date when available. Many of her rhymes tell of her deepest feelings. Everyone always told her it was a gift she had. Her son, Raymond A. Wolf, has sprinkled verses of her poetry in his six history books; The Lost Villages of Scituate, The Scituate Reservoir, Pawtuxet Valley Villages, West Warwick, Coventry, and Foster all part of the Images of America series by Arcadia Publishing. The Gramma Larson Remembers series, including The Lost Village of Rockland, Diary of Love Poems, and Elvis Presley, feature Helen O. Larson's poems in their entirety. Although she passed away in 2005, in her 94th year, her memory lives on through her poetry and tales. Wolf Publishing is proud to make her work available to everyone.

"The Lost Village of Rockland is a book of photographs and documents with captions, featuring poems and tales by Helen O. Larson. She was born October 24, 1910 and lived in the village of Rockland with her family until the City of Providence Water Supply condemned the land in 1916, by eminent domain, to build the Scituate Reservoir. Known to friends and family as Gramma Larson, she tells her story of growing up in the small New England village of Rockland, in the Town of Scituate, Rhode Island in the early 1900s. She writes about having to suffer the agony of seeing her village vanish, one building at a time. Through her poetry, she tells stories of her childhood and the heartache she endured as "Friends and family moved far apart, another family moved, another broken heart". She recall her school house sold for only twelve dollars. She wrote her first poem "The Old School House" on the blackboard as the workers were tearing it down. She was only twelve years old at the time. However, it was the beginning of a lifetime of writing poetry. Her son and author Raymond A. Wolf has brought her story to life in "The Lost Village of Rockland"." -- back cover

Diary of Love Poems is the second book of the Gramma Larson Remembers series. It is a love story that began on a bus in 1956. It continued until her husband Ivar passed away thirty-one years later on January 21, 1988. However, Helen's love for Ivar did not end then. It carried on for another seventeen years until she left to meet him on May 18, 2005. "As I go to sleep and this poem closes my book to you, I will be dreaming of meeting my love Ivar, my son Paul, Jesus, and Elvis you too." Helen O. Larson was born October 24, 1910 and brought up in a small New England village named Rockland. It was subsequently destroyed in the 1920s to build the Scituate Reservoir. Forced to leave their farm, her family relocated to the village of Hope. Later she married, had two sons, and then divorced. In 1956 she met Ivar E. Larson, the driver of the Pawtuxet Valley Bus line. He drove the bus she would travel on to her house cleaning jobs. One spring morning as they were talking she expressed she really did not want to go to work. His reply was, don't go. She in turn replied she had to. Her husband had left her and she had to provide for her two sons. He mentioned his wife had left him also. And so began a love story. Helen tells her story in poems of how much she loved Ivar, how much she missed him, and how she prayed he would return, knowing all along it could never be. Included are a mixture of over 40 photographs and documents with captions. Her son, Raymond A. Wolf, has sprinkled verses of her poetry in his books: The Lost Villages of Scituate, The Scituate Reservoir, Foster, West Warwick, Pawtuxet Valley Villages, and Coventry all part of the Images of America series by Arcadia Publishing. The Gramma Larson Remembers series, including The Lost Village of Rockland, features Helen O. Larson's poems in their entirety. Although she passed away in 2005, in her 94th year, her memory lives on through her poetry. Wolf Publishing is proud to make her work available to everyone.

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sea" by Langston Hughes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

After November 1776, the Hackensack Valley--located in northeastern New Jersey and Rockland County, New York--lay between the invading British army in New York City and the main Continental defense forces in the Hudson Highlands. Jersey Dutch patriot and Tory troops carried on a five-year war of neighbors between the lines, while the grand armies of Britain and America maneuvered on either side of them for a chance to strike a blow at the other. Adrian Leiby offers an exciting narrative of the people of Dutch New Jersey and New York during this conflict. Historians will find colorful details about the Revolutionary War, and genealogists will find much previously unpublished material on hundreds of men and women of Dutch New Jersey and New York in the 1700s.