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978-0-89587-176-3
0-89587-176-9
$15.95 paperback
7 1/2" x 8 1/2"
284 pages black-and-white photographs, blank travelogues, appendixes,
bibliography, index
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Here is a book that park
rangers and curators around the country say their patrons consistently
request: one that is both a guide to historic sites related to the
American presidents and a journal in which families can record their
travel experiences.
Author Gary Ferris does more
than take readers to where John F. Kennedy was shot and where Ulysses S.
Grant was buried. Included here--for the first time between two
covers--are the places where all 42 presidents were born, lived, went to
school, worshipped, were married, were inaugurated, died, were buried,
and are honored.
You'll visit the site of
Harry S. Truman's haberdashery, the former cafe where Lyndon Baines
Johnson developed his fondness for chili, and Jimmy Carter's famous
Smiling Peanut Statue. You'll discover the California hotel where the
Nixons married and the Reagans honeymooned. And the Vermont home where
Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated by his own father at 2:47 a.m. one day.
And the Ohio dormitory where curious students broke down the wall of
Rutherford B. Hayes's former room. And the churchyard where George
Washington first told friends he would fight for independence. The
book's geographic index will help families locate presidential sites
wherever they travel, and its listings of schedules and fees will aid
them in planning visits that are sure to be both entertaining and
educational.
about the author
Gary Ferris is the director of planned giving at the Southeastern
Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is a graduate of
Niagara University. He and his family live near Valley Forge National
Historic Park in Pennsylvania.
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