William Elihu Palmer: 5 books
Child of the Great Depression
Growing up Poor but Proud on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In this book, Child of the Great Depression, I try to recapture and revive the lore of the enduring legacy of Powellville. My, but there are so many things to remember: riding atop a load of tomatoes and throwing a tomato at every mailbox along the way, shooting marbles in the alley by the general...
The Wayward Pilgrim
A Pilgrimage to Santiago De Compostela in Northern Spain Is Stitched Together with Adventures, Side-Trips, and Visits to Sites Unknown to the Medieval Pilgrim.
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The Wayward Pilgrim is an account of the desultory pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain made by a professor of Spanish on Sabbatical leave from the Salisbury University in Maryland. The professor undertakes the pilgrimage not as a religious experience but as an attempt to better understand...
The Burro Ranch
A Professor's Fantasy of a Burro Ranch Withers in the Desert Sun of New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A retired professor of Spanish attempts to convert his fantasy of a Burro Ranch into a reality among the descendants of the original Mexican settlers near the pueblo of Bosque, New Mexico. Living in an adobe house on a ranch of about three acres, the professor sets out with the intention of restoring...
Child of the Great Depression
Growing up Poor but Proud on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
In this book CHILD OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, I try to recapture and revive the lore of the enduring legacy of Powellville. My, but there are so many things to remember: riding atop a load of tomatoes and throwing a tomato at every mailbox along the way, shooting marbles in the alley by the general...
by William Elihu Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
This I can say to you, Dear Reader, is a story of love and marriage beyond the wonders that make of life a grand and incomprehensible mystery. Explain if you can, how a young, innocent Catholic girl in Madrid would become the wife of a naive, Protestant American traveler stopping-over in Madrid en...