Anne Evers: 4 books

With Hicksville, local historians Richard and Anne Evers take us on a journey back in time from the area�s 1648 land purchase from Native Americans and associations with Elias Hicks, the Jericho antislavery leader, to its transformation into a thriving twentieth-century Long Island suburb of New York...

The Emporium��California�s Largest, America�s Grandest Store��was a major shopping destination on San Francisco�s Market Street for a century, from 1896 to 1996. Shoppers flocked to the mid-price store with its beautiful dome and bandstand. Patrons could find anything at the Emporium, from...

For many years, visitors traveling to San Francisco came via ferry, and the Ferry Building, one of San Francisco's most famous landmarks, stood ready to welcome them. In the 1920s, the Ferry Building was the world's second-busiest transit terminal (after Charing Cross, London), with more than 50,000...

Wenn man herausfindet, dass der Weihnachtsmann in einer staubigen Dachwohnung auf sein großes Comeback wartet; wenn man seit Jahren Plüschtiere (und Plüschhandys und Plüschgemüse) geschenkt bekommt, obwohl man das Zeug abgrundtief hasst; wenn man beim Tannenbaumschlagen Leib und Leben riskiert;...