Stan Paregien

Manatee County, Florida: Facts, Folks & Photos (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Stan Paregien's latest eBook," Manatee County, Florida: Facts, Folks and Photos " is a literary tossed salad. It is an intriguing combination with one part travel guide for the beaches and other attractions in Manatee County, one part who's who of today's leaders and yesterday's heroes and heroines, one part family photo album, and one part a history book containing over 450 photos and 470 biographical sketches. It is written in a conversational style with touches of wit, wisdom, mystery and spice.

Chapter 1, "Manatee County Facts," is a quick chronological look at the main events which have happened in Manatee County since ol' Juan Ponce de Leon set foot here in Paradise in 1513. There've been a heck of a lot of other footprints left in the sands of Manatee County since then, and this book notes many of them.

Chapter 2, "Manatee County Cities & Communities," presents facts and information about Manatee County's larger cities and the smaller communities as well. All of 'em are fine places, so Stan gives you the inside scoop behind the usual road signs and flashing neon lights. Real people live here and most all of them love it, except maybe for a few diehard sourpusses. You'll find helpful lists of things you may need to find.

Chapter 3, "Manatee County Folks," is where you'll want to spent a bunch of your time. There you'll see photos and biographical sketches of hundreds of Manatee County people. Learn why the heck we do things like we do them (Hint: "Because that's how grandma and grandpa used to do it.") You'll meet some of our wonderful pioneer families, a great many solid citizens, plus a lot of folks who work doggoned hard to make this County an even better place to live or to visit.

Chapter 4, "Manatee County Photo Gallery," is a large and varied photo collection which is guaranteed to put a smile on your face, a bounce in your step and reduction of your acid reflux problem. Well, heck, two out of three hits is darned good in baseball. You'll get a kick out of the these photos -- new ones, old ones, funny ones, sad ones and all in between.

Chapter 5, "About the Author," contains Stan Paregien's bio, plus a list of his more than a dozen other eBooks available online through your favorite retailer.

The last part, Chapter 6, is titled "Resources." It contains an extended list of books and articles you can read, videos you can watch and websites you can visit to learn even more about Manatee County.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stan Paregien, Sr
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370532858
• Artikelnr.: 48239402

Autorenporträt

Stan Paregien Sr was born in Wapanucka (Johnston County), Oklahoma to Harold and Evelyn (Cauthen) Paregien. The family moved west the year after his birth and he grew up on ranches and farms where his father worked in southern California. One of those places where Harold Paregien worked was the Newhall Ranch, a corporate ranching and farming operation that stretched for miles either side of the highway from the towns of Newhall (now Santa Clarita) to Piru. Stan was already in love with anything cowboy, mostly by watching those great B-Westerns at the local movie theaters. And then on the Newhall Ranch (officially known as the Newhall Land & Farming Company) he and his sister Roberta acquired horses and rode happy trails all over the ranch. Paregien graduated from high school in 1959 at Fillmore, Calif. He married Peggy Ruth Allen from nearby Ventura, Calif., in 1962. They immediately moved to Nashville, Tennessee for Stan to study Speech Communication (and history and Bible) at Lipscomb University. He graduated in 1965. In 1968, he received his master's degree from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Then he completed all 60-hours of the classwork toward a Ph.D. in Speech Communication at the University of Oklahoma (but did not complete his other requirements). He has taken and is still taking continuing education courses in Life Skills through the University of Hard Knocks. He is a former full-time minister, a newspaper reporter and editor, a radio talk show host, a director of mental health facilities in both Texas and Oklahoma, and a salesman of various products. His hobby since 1990 has been writing and performing cowboy poetry and stories. He performed at the annual National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas for a total of some 25 years. Through it all, he has been and is a freelance writer and author. He prefers just calling himself a "storyteller" in the tradition of Mark Twain, Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, Garrison Keillor, Ansel Adams, Norman Rockwell, J. Frank Dobie, Agatha Christie and others. Sometimes he tells stories through narration, sometimes through poetry and often through photography. Stan and Peggy have two adult children, Stan Paregien Jr who lives with his family in the St. Louis area; and Stacy Magness who lives with her family near College Station, Texas. They also have four grandchildren (going on five, with an adoption in progress) and two great-grandchildren. T...