An English Army Captain, defending Holland in the 16th Century against Spanish religious zealots was killed, leaving a son born of a Dutch mother. The boy was accepted in England and raised by paternal uncles and aunts. When grown he migrated to America sponsored by them. In New Hampshire his son led a struggle against Puritan persecution and finally found democracy with others in establishing Piscataway New Jersey in 1664. There the first American militia was born in 1673. The spirit of those Jersey Blues became part of America. Oppressed and freedom loving people value this militant creed for all people. Maintaining fairness has become American democratic chivalry.This book relates family duty over centuries of intervening on the side of right. It happened in their response to history. Family looking out for family became the base of democracy.With this spirit they became missionaries, lawyers, doctors, judges, scientists, entrepreneurs, warriors, farmers, technicians, social workers, salesmen, civil workers, politicians, and just plain good citizens. 17th century Piscataway names are:Langstaff, Smalley, Bonham, Dunham, Sutton, Manning , Walker, Greenland, Runyon, Higgins, Slater, Hendricks, Doty, Longfield, Hull, Inians, Pyatt, Blackford, Antill, Fitzrandolph, Drake, Dunn, Martin, Oliver, Smalley, Stelle, Davis,Reboot, Comptom, Boutcher, VanHorne, Trotter, Vail, Faurot, Wooden, Shotwell

Jersey Blue Spirit: Pioneer Courage

Drake, Albert

Parenting & Relationships

iUniverse

A hot rod enthusiast and builder since the early 1950s, Albert "Bud" Drake has experienced rod and custom car culture to the fullest. This collection of his columns from Rod Action and Goodguys Gazette over the past quarter century, also incorporating several unpublished pieces, offers a wealth of historical information and insights. The colorful writing illuminates the people, machines, movies and cultural events that shaped hot rod culture.

The Age of Hot Rods: Essays on Rods, Custom Cars and Their Drivers from the 1950s to Today

History

Americas

McFarland Company

The Big "Little Gto" Book

Science & Math

Technology

Motorbooks Intl

Beyond The Pavement

Beyond the Pavement

Literature & Fiction

United States

White Ewe Press

Tillamook Burn

Literary

Fault Publications

A review by a fan with a blog on Hot Rodders.  Albert self publishes his books from Flat Out Press. and his books are not in the same class as Motorbooks, which spends a great deal of money and effort to make their books look spectacular. But where Albert's book has quality the text, research, photographs and sheer exuberance in loving the sport of hot rodding and land speed racing.  There is nothing fancy or fussy with any of Albert Drake's books, just a delight in the writing of it that makes us all want to see what Drake sees.

Hot Rodder from Lakes to Street

Classic Motorbooks

Flat Out: California Dry Lake Time Trials 1930-1950

Flat Out Press

In this collection of 46 essays, many of which were previously published in Old Cars Weekly and Goodguys Gazette, Drake examines a boy's desire to be mobile. He takes the two great themes of the 20th Century, motion and competition, motivation of the great builders of the Industrial Age, and brings it to a personal level. These essays, some memoir, some lyrical, start with the chemicals that imprinted brains -- gasoline, hydraulic brake fluid, exhaust -- and caused young men to wrap their lives around machines as surely as any drug. Next comes the Wheel: the baby carriage, the scooter, the sidewalk flyer. Before there was power there was gravity and the soap box racer, when every driver had to reinvent the Wheel. And of course, a moment that looms large for every rider: that first bicycle. There are essays analyzing reading material: anthropomorphic fables, the Motor Boys books, the comic strips, True Magazine, wartime reading fare. Some define a time period: buying a squirrel knob, painting tires white, overhauling an engine in the driveway on a weekend in order to get to work on Monday, painting a car with a brush. Some are unsentimentally frank: a boy and his father getting a 1934 Terraplane home on a winter night, the father who refuses a gift, the boy riding home on a runningboard, the group of naked high school boys who discuss the merits of new cars after a shower in the locker room. Some highlighted historical moments: a piece on a new 1941 DeSoto and a 1942 Mercury, the problem of rationing gasoline and rubber, the use of old cars as bomb shelters in case of an atomic bomb attack. Among the memoirs are essays about a family camping in 1937, traveling to North Dakota in a 1935 Packard and to California in a new 1941 Chevrolet; it is not possible to separate the machine from family history or even global events. An essay on the Fisher Body Craftsman Guild Competition, where boys were asked to build models for a scholarship, brought reality to dreams.

Overtures to Motion

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Stone Press

Mill Sederstrom steps into a time warp when he returns from college to the small house where he grew up. But the world has changed, and Mill learns that one can't go home again-- not easily, nor completely anyway. Family pressures mount as his parents urge him to find the Big Job. He meets his younger brother, Tonto, and his gang--the "pavement dancers," a lethal group. A woman takes him to a roadhouse called "The Place," but it is not his place, the gangster who owns it tells him. The tension between brothers grows when Mill becomes involved with Tonto's girl friend. The uncomplicated life Mill had hoped for soon becomes complicated, and when serious trouble threatens he has no idea which of the several antagonists is responsible. Selected as one of the 100 books that best define the state of Oregon and its people by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, "Beyond the Pavement" is an adult novel about hot rodding and changing times. Set in the Lents neighborhood of Portland, Oregon in the '50s, Drake weaves local landmarks and historical events into a book that is both literary, and evokes the pulp fictions of the past.

"They drove in silence, the shadows already beginning to flatten, and soon the knife disappeared; the Indian sat back and sighed deeply, as if he was exhausted by simply driving. Chris suddenly found himself less worried about their being found murdered beside the road, and more concerned about the rumbling in his stomach. He dreamed of home, the cool shade of his back yard where he could be right now eating peanut butter sandwiches and reading comic books. When he left home, he had thought he would be right back, and how it looked as though he would be in Celilo tonight, hungry, fighting the cold desert wind." The short stories and poems in "Tillamook Burn" capture the mood of growing up in Portland, Oregon during and after World War II. Highly evocative, they include memories of fathers, the fading Oregon landscapes, and studies of forgotten characters of the period. Includes "The Chicken Which Became a Rat," which was included in "Best American Short Stories 1971."

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