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Akron Docs in Haiti:
Almost home
First Bell - On Education:
Strange, sad story from Canton
Pets:
Found: White Eskimo male dog near Bath and State Rd.
The Heldenfiles:
Fess Parker, R.I.P.
Akron Zips:
Looking back on the season
Tribe Matters:
Cabrera says it’s time to play
Cleveland Browns:
Yates latest to re-sign
Balanced Ledger:
How times have changed?
Kent State Sports:
Kent State gears up for WNIT at Michigan
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Highlights from Wednesday’s Cavs-Pacers Game
Buckeye Blogging:
Bucks High Seed – Turner High Praise
Varsity Letters:
Akron offers DE
All Da King's Men:
ObamaCare To Reduce Premiums By 3000% ?
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Pathetic GOP Nullification Attempts
Akron Law Café:
Does Capitalism Inspire "Moral Flexibility"?
Car Chase:
2010 CONCOURS SEASON IS UPON US
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Deals in Miami?!.
Sound Check:
Willie Nelson & Family coming to the Akron Civic Theatre May 11
See Jane Style:
Who Wore What – The Oscars
HRLite House:
Horses of Courses
Akron Gamer:
Video: Gamers expected to 'reach' for new 'Halo'
Published on Sunday, May 31, 2009
Nostalgia is the merchandise, and Cleveland's Department Stores delivers. The pictorial, annotated by University of Akron alumnus Christopher Faircloth, shows the great stores — Halle Brothers, Higbee's, May Company and Sterling-Lindner-Davis — in their downtown art deco heydays, with throngs of busy shoppers and helpful clerks.
Readers of a certain vintage will recognize Higbee's Silver Grille and bargain basement. There is a chapter devoted to the many celebrities (Rock Hudson! Zsa Zsa Gabor!) who made promotional appearances at the glamorous stores. The Christmas season, including traditions like the spectacular tree at Sterling-Lindner, is well covered, as is beloved Mr. Jingeling.
Cleveland's Department Stores (128 pages, softcover) costs $21.99 from Arcadia Publishing.
Hiking 'Trail of Truth'
Former Cuyahoga Falls resident Mark Stephen Taylor has had an eventful 64 years: work as a police officer in California, health problems and four divorces. He became an avid hiker and Bible scholar, and his book Hiking the Trail of Truth: Knowing God through His Creation, is part memoir, part exploration of the terrain and fauna of the Southwest and part Bible instruction.
Taylor sanctions only a literal translation, adding his certainties that the Earth is ''just a little over 6,000 years'' old and that homosexuality is ''detestable in the sight of God.'' His descriptions of various desert creatures, like coyotes, snakes, eagles and locusts, are interesting.
Hiking the Trail of Truth (332 pages, softcover) costs $18.99 from http://www.xulonpress.com. Taylor now lives in Petaluma, Calif.
Inside Day's life
In his May 10 column about David Kaufman's biography of Cincinnati native Doris Day, Beacon Journal writer Rich Heldenfels notes that the author talked to ''just about everyone who was alive and able to provide insight into Day.'' One of those people was Mary Anne Barothy, who tells of her four years as Day's live-in private secretary in Day at a Time: An Indiana Girl's Sentimental Journey to Doris Day's Hollywood and Beyond.
Four years doesn't seem like that long, but they were among the most eventful in Day's life and career: They included her son's near-death in a motorcycle accident and brief association with Charles Manson, and starring in a television show that her late husband/agent had contracted her to without her knowledge. And ''personal secretary'' hardly conveys Barothy's duties, which included fishing lawn furniture out of the pool and caring for — and being bitten by — Day's many, many dogs.
Day at a Time (170 pages, softcover) is a snapshot of early 1970s Hollywood and an insider's look at a reclusive star. It costs $18 from http://www.hawthornepub.com.
Events
Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Legacy Village, Lyndhurst) — Gary Stromberg signs Every Tiger Has a Tale: Generations of Grads from a Cleveland Area High School Share Their Amazing Life Stories, 7 p.m. Wednesday; Bo Parfet signs Die Trying: One Man's Quest to Conquer the Seven Summits, 7 p.m. Thursday.
Cuyahoga County Public Library (6155 Engle Road, Brook Park) — Bill Livingston signs Above and Beyond: Tim Mack, the Pole Vault and the Quest for Olympic Gold. 7 p.m. Wednesday. Reservations required; call 216-267-5250.
Barnes & Noble (4015 Medina Road, Bath Township) — Amherst author Doug Kane signs Ariel's Journey, first in the Ice Horse Adventures series. He will bring an Icelandic horse and colt. 8 p.m. Friday.
— Barbara McIntyre
Special to the Beacon Journal
Send information about books of local interest to Lynne Sherwin, Features Department, Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309 or lsherwin@thebeaconjournal.com. Event notices should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
Nostalgia is the merchandise, and Cleveland's Department Stores delivers. The pictorial, annotated by University of Akron alumnus Christopher Faircloth, shows the great stores — Halle Brothers, Higbee's, May Company and Sterling-Lindner-Davis — in their downtown art deco heydays, with throngs of busy shoppers and helpful clerks.
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