Books with author Margaret Ayer

Coast Salish people were the only occupants of the Northwest corner of Washington State for millennia. They retained their unique reign over the land until the mid-1850s when European Americans arrived on the shores of Bellingham Bay. Those early businessmen, adventurers, and settlers seeking a new beginning would forever change the Northwest landscape. Washington Territory had not yet become a state and the land was not surveyed by the federal government when the first outsiders arrived. Once the small towns lining Bellingham Bay began to grow, a handful of settlers traveled inland to stake land claims. The pioneers who made their way up the South Fork of the Nooksack River faced immense hardship and extreme isolation as they established homesteads and put down roots in the wilderness of early Whatcom County. This is the story of those settlers and the small town they built in the South Fork valley. Their stories are told through records, interviews, letters, and a wealth of early images that document their lives and progress as they transformed their corner of Northwest Washington wilderness into a community called Acme. A Home on the South Fork traces the earliest history of Acme starting with the first land claims in the 1880s through the growth years and the Great Depression, including the development of early Whatcom County. An early map of the community details the first businesses, school, and church sites, and locations of many family homes. Brief histories of other valley communities are included, from Park to Deming. The back of the book contains twenty-nine years of school census records as well as every Acme school teacher from 1888 to 1930. Lists of the earliest Acme school district officers and directors are also included. Received Finalist Award from Best Book Awards: United States History, and was Indie Book Awards double 2019 Finalist: Regional Non-Fiction, and Best Cover Design Non-Fiction

Aerosmith. Elvis Presley. Michael Jackson. Nine Inch Nails. Ozzy Osbourne. U2. What do all of these artists have in common? They're rich and rowdy rock 'n' roll renegades whose wild stunts, dumb quotes, and out-of-control lifestyles are featured in Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things.--Where else will you find an explanation (goodness knows, we need one) of the Spice Girls' fourteen and one-half minutes of fame straight from the mouths of babes--Baby Spice, that is? "We're like a religious cult."--Or where will you learn Izzy Stradlin's (of Guns N' Roses) deep thoughts on the virtues of vomiting out of a bus going sixty-five miles an hour?--And how live octopuses end up in a bathtub with Led Zepplin's female playmates?Whether you're a Metallica or Madonna fan, you'll get plenty of jaw-dropping facts and anecdotes, along with biographical and career highlights of over eighty-eight raunchy rock 'n' rollers.From current starts like Marilyn Manson and Courtney Love, to classic rockers like the Rolling Stones and the Eagles, Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things is proof that rock music is still crazy after all these years.

Children's book about baby guineas on a vineyard and their exciting adventures with their other animal friends. This is a series of 3 books. Many different animal characters appear in each book. Many color illustrations. The story centers around one particular guinea, Eli. He and the other guineas live on a farm that has a vineyard. The female owner is MimiM. She raises guineas to maintain the grasshopper population. In the 3rd book, the guineas are caught in a storm and are swept away from the vineyard. The 4th book (to come) brings them back on the back of a donkey named Rosie. All of these characters are inspired by my grandchildren, grand nieces and grand nephews. Rosie was inspired by my aunt, a catholic nun, who passed several years ago.

Founded in 1782, San Buenaventura was the ninth of the California missions. The Chumash Indians, the nearby tribe, was told that once they were baptized they would become neophytes and would be unable to leave the mission without permission. The Chumash were divided about their feelings towards adopting the missions lifestyle, seeing both benefits and disadvantages in strict order. The content provided in this book, aligned to California state standards, will provide students with a greater insight into the story of San Buenaventura and California’s mission system. This book is filled with excellent primary source materials and visuals, including illustrations, paintings, and maps.