Journeys

Archie Stanley

Description

Journeys is the result of a Grandfather’s desire to provide his grandsons a reference book of their Family heritage and history. Stanley uses Family migrations that take place across the earth to document the origin of many life sustaining skills of rafting, boating, sailing, animal and agriculture domestication, shepherding, military mobile artillery strategy, and basic astronomical observation and navigation. He hopes the book will inspire future Family members to continue the tradition by writing future chapters and volumes to continue and further document our Family Heritage, present their theories of historical mysteries, and tell further Family stories. Stanley explains to his grandsons that Journeys is part fiction, with literary liberties taken and so noted, to tell stories about their ancestors so that they may know their Family heritage better and provide them with an idea of how we may have evolved as a Family in this miraculous life that we are experiencing on earth. Stanley takes the reader back to the very beginnings of life on earth. He journeys from that beginning fictionally through time and human evolution, to the very start of our human life and imagines what our world was like during those earliest beginnings. This beginning and the subsequent migrations of human life are based upon the traces of DNA charting developed by the National Geographic Magazine Genome Project for the Paternal and Maternal sides of Stanley’s Family. Stanley ends with an imagined trek into possible future Family journeys. Packed with photos, images and professional illustrations throughout, Journeys offers a visual perspective of how everyday evolution may have shaped us; presents real maps from Google Earth documenting detailed migration pathways; and showcases treasured portraits of ancestors and photos of homesteads, and the complete National Geographic Magazine genome project developed for the Author’s genealogy. The maps, photos, and professional illustrations bring vibrant perspective, bold reality, and resounding life to Journeys. Journeys offers many things to many people: An everyday presentation of the principles of evolution; a hands on treatment of DNA trace science; a study of earth and universe sciences with some unique theories thrown in; Family values of morality and ethics; everyday genealogy; practical descriptions of tool development; and the perseverance of a few individuals who saw to the survival of our species. Stanley’s love of history and science is coupled with genealogy and his love of Family. It is a summary of our history and his hopes for our future. It is historical fiction meshed with historic fact, transporting the reader to places beyond, through the art of story-telling. Stanley has already started work on writing a sequel of additional stories of fictional Family journeys exploring other vast regions of our earth including recent archaeology discovery regions that seem not to be in accordance with the NGM DNA general human traces. He also anticipates the last volume of the trilogy pulling together Family observations of the journeys of the first two volumes and presenting an exciting human prehistory of earth based upon the Family observations as well as indisputable evidence that exists before our eyes. Prepare yourself.

Sujets

• Histoire
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Outskirts Press
• Date de parution: 06 mai 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781478773962
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

This is a work of fiction. The events and characters described herein are imaginary and are not intended to refer to specific places or living persons. The opinions expressed in this manuscript are solely the opinions of the author and do not represent the opinions or thoughts of the publisher. The author has represented and warranted full ownership and/or legal right to publish all the materials in this book.

Journeys
Earthly Migrations of a Family
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Copyright © 2016 Archie Stanley
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For Our Family
Contents
Foreword
Section I: Fiction
Chapter One: The “Big Bang”
Chapter Two: First Exodus
Chapter Three: Leaving Africa
Chapter Four: Second Exodus
Section II: Actual Genealogy, and Pets, and Ancestors’ Graves
Chapter Five: From Warriors to Sirs
Chapter Six: Grandparents’ Families
Chapter Seven: Poppy’s and Gruggy’s Parents’ Families
Chapter Eight: Gruggy’s Young Life
Chapter Nine: Poppy’s Young Life
Chapter Ten: Gruggy and Poppy Together
Chapter Eleven: Friends and Family
Chapter Twelve: Closing
Chapter Thirteen: Forever in Our Hearts
Chapter Fourteen: Forever in Our Hearts
Section III: Future
Chapter Fifteen: Future
Reference Appendix
Afterword
Reference Notes
Foreword

Athens County Engineer Office and Garage Building 2012
I began writing these first words on January 7, 2013. As I look back on that day, it was the first day of the rest of my life. It was the day of transition after I lost my re-election campaign for Athens County Engineer. Thirty-three years of my life were summed up in a resounding political defeat. I was insecure, anxious, and in uncharted waters. I wasn’t accustomed to losing. I had enjoyed several victories. I was a multi-tasking, relatively smart, driven, successful, accomplished person. In one primary campaign cycle, it seemed like many of my professional accomplishments were washed away. Politics was never my strength. I had stood on my tangible accomplishments, on the manner in which I had conducted myself, and on my integrity and honesty. I thought my professional character and proven production were what mattered, but Athens County had changed. It had become less about what you had done and more about who you knew, how loud you were, and how many Facebook “likes” you could get. Politics, in this reality-TV new world of ours was ugly, and simply put I refused to partake in it. The world was upside down.
My bargaining unit employees, whom I had treated with such high regard, were absent, silent, and in fact worked against my re-election. Some true friends remained, but other lifelong friends simply vaporized, or in a few cases even worked against my re-election. I realized my supporters had become few. Where were the Sunday Creek Valley and core Athens area voters who had always shown up in strength for me? As I looked for answers as to where they all went, I realized many of them were older, not in good health, and many were gone. Very few were socially networked on Facebook or Twitter. My supporters were the silent un-networked minority in a campaign driven by new-age, twenty-four-hour per day news cycles and social media. “Stanley Works” had been destined for failure for the first time. It was a convincing defeat. I persevered, completed my elected term, did my job, accepted my destiny, walked away, and never looked back.
The day before I began writing, you three grand-boys came to visit me on my last day as Athens County Engineer. It felt like a loss that day…like I was grieving for a life that I would never have again--forced out of a home I had helped to build. After all, those buildings I helped to be there by arranging the sale of the former Engineer’s Office and Garage Buildings. The former property at 555 East State Street was a prime commercial plot of land in the City of Athens; the sale yielded a nice price. Using only the old property sale proceeds, and no highway or bridge revenue to create the new office and garage buildings at 16,000 Canaanville Road, was an accomplishment! As Athens County Engineer for thirty-three years, I had helped to replace or rehabilitate 230 bridges, rebuild many miles of highways, and build the new office and garage buildings. I had helped create a computerized mapping and information system for Athens County called a Geographic Information System. Also, I had been chosen by my nine other Local District County Engineers to represent them on the Executive Policy Board of the Ohio Association of County Engineers, and later, I was chosen by the other eighty-seven Ohio County Engineers as Ohio County Engineer of the Year. Yet, despite those significant accomplishments, the facts didn’t matter. Slander and gossip had replaced value and accomplishment. I was disappointed, surprised, and let down. I remember telling the bargaining unit guys that I worked with, “Guys, I hope you get exactly what you want.” Sometimes people have it so good, they think they are entitled to more. Indeed they got exactly what they wanted. I always did right by my employees and in fact, the main reason I ran for that last term was to protect their interests and ensure that they were treated fairly. Their part in my defeat enabled me to have no regrets in leaving my post.
As it turned out, that loss was the best thing that ever happened to me! I realized, after some time and healing, that I had worked as Athens County Engineer out of my sense of duty to Athens County and my employees. The campaign was the messenger that shined a light on the dark places and dark people that were faking their friendships in my life. It really exposed who and what was important to me, and gave me purpose to better define and appreciate those things in my life. It turned out that it was I who had gotten what I wanted, even though I did not realize that I wanted it. What blossomed out of that storm was my new life here on Mason Road in Canal Winchester, together with my family. I gained a lot more time for my mom, you boys, your homeschooling, our pets, our pool paradise, lantern festivals, Friday night pizza parties, and writing Journeys . I got all the things that I love, and everything that I valued most--and zero regret for leaving Athens County. Now was my time, my happiest time, my time to do what I loved, to soon be with you every minute of the rest of my life!
Out of that sense of realization, this book was born. It is all of me, wrapped up in one package: my love of history and science coupled with genealogy. It is a summary of our history and my hopes for your future. Journeys has the elements of historic fact, transported to places beyond, through the art of storytelling.
So it was that I came to write down my thoughts, along several lines inspired by my own experiences and observations, for you Canyon, Cole, and Cooper to have and to read as you wish and to hopefully assist you in some way along your lives together. As an adult now, I so wish I could go back and talk with my grandparents with my current understanding of historic context. How much has been forgotten, misplaced, or lost forever to the silence and vastness of history? I want to capture here for you everything I know about our family and history, so that someday, you won’t have to wonder what Poppy did or thought, you can just read it.
So come along with me. I will take us on a journey into our family history and heritage and document a few family anecdotes and stories passed down along the way. I hope some of what I have learned and think will be of some benefit to you boys as you experience life and remember how very much I love and adore each of you. Always remember…
…family first…

“Team Reed” at Hilton Head 2014 Cole Jon Canyon Dannielle Cooper
Canyon, Cooper, Cole
The guys I write (and live) for, and would gladly die for
Cole, Cooper, Canyon
Cole, Cooper, & Canyon Stanley Reed
Canyon Stanley Reed
Cole Stanley Reed
Cooper Stanley Reed
Section I
Fiction
Based Upon Science, History, and National Geographic Magazine’s Genome Project DNA Trace.
{Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4}
Written for Canyon, Cole, and Cooper in the spirit of science and history and based upon my DNA traces by National Geographic Magazine ’s Genome Project.

Once upon a time…
“BANG”

Universe Illustration
Chapter One
The “Big Bang”
13,800,000,000 Years Ago
The vastness of geological time is impossible to comprehend, and so we will follow timelines that are not to scale. We will start at our very life beginnings and imagine what our world was like during those earliest of times, and evolve into our early human selves and begin tracing our imagined (based upon my actual DNA traces done by National Geographic Magazine of my mother and father’s genetic lineage (1) ) family genetic footprints as they trace our migrations slowly across the face of the earth. In Section I, we will follow my National Geographic Magazine Genome Project DNA maps (See the Reference Appendix on NGM Analysis and migration maps) closely and trace our way home from Africa to North America and Athens County, Ohio and describe how our family came together. In Section II we will detail and document our actual family genealogy including precious photographs that freeze moments in time experienced by our family members. Section III presents two possible future scenarios for Homo sapiens sapiens as food for thought.
So