Upon graduating from C.C.N.Y, Tom has begun teaching at Curtis High School, located on Staten Island's North Shore, where he faces the formidable stone gargoyles of the school's façade and his challenging Aquarian age students. Each day, the young science teacher starts his lesson with an attention grabbing practical experiment that occasionally backfires, to the delight of his students. His lessons cover a wide range of topics - including Newton's laws of motion, Galileo's free fall, the simple pendulum, Mendeleev's table of elements, Darwin's evolution, Mendel's heredity, household chemicals, the laws of probability, British kings and American presidents, plus ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. In his spare time, Tom gets caught up in a whirlwind of drinking, bar hopping, random dating, schoolyard stickball and basketball games, and an experiment with maze-running white rats. Haunted by the loss of his high school sweetheart and the endless raging Vietnam war, the rookie teacher seeks a place in the sun amidst the social turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

1960s-1970s Fable

Daley, Todd

Parenting & Relationships

AuthorHouse

<p>This book is about a charismatic young man with extraordinary powers of healing, compassion, forbearance, and clairvoyance - named Amon. Living in an abandoned tugboat on Staten Island's Mariners Harbor waterfront, this modern day prophet performs everyday miracles while doing good work for the homeless and the downtrodden. Amon is befriended by a high school science teacher, Tom Haley, whose rational perspective differs from Amon's spiritual reference frame. The story takes place during the turbulent 1970s when the country was torn apart by the Vietnam War, social change and unrest, and the sexual revolution. The contrasting lifestyles of the two friends are examined, along with the drinking culture of Staten Island's North Shore, in which the corner bar is the focus of the neighborhood's social life. The fast-paced story is interspersed with thumb-nail sketches of 1970s celebrities and events: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, Ralph Nader, Albert Shanker, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron, the Fair Housing and Roe v. Wade court decisions, and Alcoholics Anonymous. The concepts of economic disparity, ethnic conflict, spiritual-secular balance, and changing sexual mores in an evolving society, and idealism in the work-a-day world of 1970s America provide a backdrop to the unfolding plot. Notwithstanding their differences, the friendship between the two protagonists, Tom and Amon, is an ongoing motif in the story.</p>

The Mariners Harbor Messiah

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

<p>This book is about a charismatic young man with extraordinary powers of healing, compassion,forbearance, and clairvoyance - named Amon. Living in an abandoned tugboat on StatenIsland's Mariners Harbor waterfront, this modern day prophet performs everyday miracleswhile doing good work for the homeless and the downtrodden. Amon is befriended by a highschool science teacher, Tom Haley, whose rational perspective differs from Amon's spiritual reference frame. The story takes place during the turbulent 1970s when the country was torn apart by the Vietnam War, social change and unrest, and the sexual revolution. The contrasting lifestylesof the two friends are examined, along with the drinking culture of Staten Island's North Shore,in which the corner bar is the focus of the neighborhood's social life. The fast-paced story isinterspersed with thumb-nail sketches of 1970s celebrities and events: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, Ralph Nader, Albert Shanker, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron, the Fair Housing and Roe v. Wade court decisions, and Alcoholics Anonymous. The concepts of economic disparity, ethnic conflict, spiritual-secular balance, and changing sexual mores in an evolving society, and idealism in the work-a-day world of 1970s America provide a backdrop to the unfolding plot. Notwithstanding their differences, the friendshipbetween the two protagonists, Tom and Amon, is an ongoing motif in the story.</p>

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The Mariners Harbor Messiah

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