Bøger af Jim Farfaglia

"Of The Earth" is a compilation of oral histories garnered from Oswego County muck farmers. Oswego County, located in Central New York, is home to about 4,000 acres of muck land, an organic-rich soil that produces high-quality vegetables. The book includes narration by muck farmers, their families, neighbors and agricultural support staff on how the mucks were formed and modernized and why living a muck-farm life is a unique experience. Includes photographs and maps to illustrate the stories.

The biography of Bob Sykes, professor of meteorology at the State University College at Oswego, New York from 1961-1983. Sykes was instrumental in our current understanding of the weather phenomenon known as lake-effect snow, as well as playing an important role in forecasting the storm systems that traveled over Greenland, where he was stationed in WW II, and headed to war-torn Europe. Bob Sykes is also credited with being an important role model for many of today's meteorologists.

In the early 1970s, emergency services for someone who was lost were nearly nonexistent in the eastern United States. When a young boy went missing in New York State's Adirondack Mountains in 1971, a chaotic and unsuccessful attempt to find him prompted several people from Upstate New York to form a professional search and rescue team. With determination and persistence, and without any other group of its kind to advise them, the team was created. They aptly called themselves The Oswego County Pioneer Land Search and Rescue Team, and within six months, they were lending their skills to help search for lost children, hunters and troubled souls throughout their home state and beyond. Today, the team continues to offer their unique emergency services, now utilizing modern communication and search technology. Based on interviews with the Pioneers' founding and current members, as well as a review of the team's 45-year history of participation in many high-profile missing person cases, this book is the story of how the group became and continue to be the most respected search and rescue team throughout New York State.

A look back at the historic winter storm that hit the Northeastern United States in January 1966. Using stories told by those who lived through the blizzard, the book covers topics such as road conditions, school and business closings, food shortages, and the use of the largely-known snowmobile as a rescue vehicle.

Stuttering is a complex, often misunderstood speech disorder that affects over 3 million people in the United States alone. For many of us, our stuttering not only impedes our ability to communicate with others; our speaking difficulties can often be outright debilitating and incredibly embarrassing to us. As a result, we understandably develop attitudes and emotions related to our speech that tend to inadvertently make our stuttering worse. Often compared to the concept of an iceberg, the physical, observable aspects of stuttering are what lie above the water, while the multitude of strong attitudes and emotions are what lie beneath that continue to sustain the physical habits of stuttering. Setting My Words Free is a compilation of 300 inspirational messages written to encourage us to take daily efforts to holistically address the social, emotional, and attitudinal components of our stuttering as we continue to take efforts to make physical changes to our speech. The book also encourages us to engage in practices and routines that promote our overall wellness and ability to manage stress, further complimenting our efforts to improve our fluency. In taking a more holistic approach, we are likely to discover improved self-acceptance, freedom from fear and shame, openness with others, and hope that can bring us to a place where we can make permanent improvements to our fluency that we never thought were possible.

On a tree-covered bluff overlooking Lake Ontario, a summer camp has been a haven for children for nearly a century. Originally known as the Oswego County Health Camp and then as Camp Hollis, the retreat has brought joy to thousands of campers throughout the region. It was founded by a doctor working to create a summer getaway for children at risk of contracting tuberculosis in the early 1900s. In the 1940s, a family court judge believed deeply in the camp''s ability to improve the lives of children from difficult circumstances, establishing the camp and its traditions that carry on today. Author Jim Farfaglia recalls the history of Camp Hollis from the local leaders who built it to fond memories of campers and counselors.