Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most
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Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most
Gwendolyn Bounds
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ASIN: 0060564075
Release Date: 2006-07-25

Book Description

Forced from her downtown Manhattan apartment by the terrorist attack of September 11, journalist Wendy Bounds was delivered to Guinan's doorstep -- a legendary Irish drinking hole and country store nestled along the banks of the Hudson River in the small town of Garrison, New York -- by a friend.

Captivated by the bar's charismatic but ailing owner and his charming, motley clientele, Bounds uprooted herself permanently and moved to tiny Garrison, the picturesque river town they all call home. There she became one of the rare female regulars at the old pub and was quickly swept up into its rhythm, heartbeat, and grand history -- as related by Jim Guinan himself, the stubborn high priest of this little chapel. Surrounded by a crew of endearing, delightfully colorful characters who were now her neighbors and friends, she slowly finds her own way home.

Beautifully written, deeply personal, and brilliantly insightful, Little Chapel on the River is a love story about a place -- and the people who bring it to life.

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5 out of 5 stars Thank You.......2007-08-23

I couldn't think of a better title to my review, then to sum it up with my feelings after reading this book. THANK YOU Wendy for sharing your experiences at Guinan's with us. For introducing us to the wonderful cast of characters - human, animal, logistical. Your writing placed me right at a stool at the "chapel", or on a wind swept hill overlooking the Hudson. Thank you for forever memorializing this place and time and people. Grand job!

5 out of 5 stars Finding Home.......2007-08-23

Wow, I feel like I missed the boat (or the train as it may be) on this one. I see all the posts from back in 2005 and wondered why I hadn't seen this book before. Now in August of 2007 I just finished reading this book (for the second time). What a superb tale, timely, well written and very touching. I live not far from Garrison and feel compelled to stop in at Guinans and have a beer.

Thank you Wendy Bounds for telling this story. I am going to look for more tales from Ms. Bounds. Hope to see some soon.

Must read for any one looking for a great story.

3 out of 5 stars nice topic, but...a little boring.......2007-06-13

I like the "come find yourself in a small town" genre and I like the Guinan family the author writes about. I even love the Wall Street Journal, where she is a writer on staff. We lived in nearby New Jersey when the terrorist attacks happened and lost some friends and neighbors, so I've lived through a bit of what she went through. But...the book was missing something for me. Even though Gwendolyn Bounds writes in detail about the pub on Garrison's Landing and the family who runs it, I just didn't feel the connection to the characters--she wrote more matter of factly than from the heart. I understood that she cared deeply about them, but she didn't make me care. She did make me curious and maybe I'll go to Guinan's someday. Well, that's my take on it. I'd give the book 3.5 stars, and recommend the book with the aforementioned reservations.

4 out of 5 stars A Time to Heal.......2007-05-27

Bounds' work is a must read for anyone who was lost after 9/11. The journey is about finding yourself and sometimes the journey introduces you to the person you never knew-you. Her book explains a search that was happening in a lot of people after this tragic day. It made us question what was important. In NY, for a brief period of time, all men were equal. Join Bounds in her search for a place where we are all equal.

5 out of 5 stars Hoboken Book Lover.......2007-01-30

I just finished Little Chapel On The River and felt compelled to post a review! The book was warm and touching and extremely insightful. Having many familiar experiences, I found the voice of the author inviting and accessible and the perfect blend of sentiment and reality. Thank you for a wonderful read that I will reccomend highly to my fellow readers!
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      Though less celebrated than the infantry and cavalry, Napoleon's 'specialist' troops – artillery, engineers and supporting services – were indispensable elements without which no army could have operated, and frequently assumed greater significance than the line regiments. Indeed, having suffered least from the emigration of Royalist officers, the artillery was the best element of the early Republican armies, the nucleus of the old Royal artillery serving with distinction in the early campaigns such as Valmy. The organisation and uniform of Napoleon's specialist troops are here examined by Philip Haythornwaite in a engaging volume complemented by a wealth of illustrations including eight full page colour plates by Bryan Fosten.
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        The Anti-Chomsky Reader
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        Peter Collier and David Horowitz have assembled a set of provocative essays that analyze Noam Chomsky's intellectual career and the evolution of his anti-Americanism.

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        Beginning with his criticism of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has become better known for his radical politics than for his theories of language. These essays scrutinize both the theories and the politics: linguists Paul Postal and Robert Levine reevaluate Chomsky's linguistics to find parallels with his politics; scholar Paul Bogdanor explores Chomsky's hatred of Israel; Ronald Radosh and David Horowitz discuss Chomsky's gloating reaction to the September 11 attacks; and other authors examine Chomsky's Holocaust revisionism, apologies for Khmer Rouge tyrant Pol Pot, and strident views on America's policies in Latin America.

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        1 out of 5 stars lowest form of brown-stuff.......2007-09-15

        Chomsky has been rated as the world's no 1 intellectual only partly because of his groundbreaking work in linguistics ( he is sometimes called the Einstein of linguistics), but mainly because his political criticism/journalism has, despite every obstruction from the powerful and almost total blackout by the media (though his name has cropped up more often recently), worked it's way over 40 years into the mind's of millions as the most lucid, thorough and consistent appraisal of the inadequacies of the 'system' we live under and of the venality and inhumanity of the elites who run it.
        There are increasingly many critics of his linguistic work, as of Einstein's work; some may quibble with his style - I think he overuses elaborate sarcasms to the extent that, while always entertaining, they sometimes necessitate a couple of readings to get the point; he may get things wrong occasionally - he is the first to admit this - he doesn't claim to be an infallible prophet, but I find it remarkable how hard it is to find anything at all that he did get wrong, which is why his critics are usually reduced to misrepresenting him i.e. the most recurring slander that he praised Pol Pot - in fact, at the time of the initial Khmer Rouge takeover, Chomsky asked why the media were giving so much attention to alleged crimes in Cambodian for which, AT THE TIME. there was next to no substantial evidence, while the media ignored the concurrent Indonesian massacres in East Timor for which, AT THE TIME, there was massive evidence - because Indonesia was 'our type of people'. Like everyone else he has since accepted the substantial evidence against the Pol Pot regime and has, like John Pilger, written much on the support by the USA and the UK for his regime after their crimes were well known; after the Khmer Rouge were ousted and survived as guerrilla groups in the forest, the USA/UK recognised them as the legitimate government of Cambodia, and pressurised the UN to accept a Khmer Rouge as the rep for Cambodia at the UN. If you want the rest of the story read Chomsky or Pilger.
        But to cricise Chomsky for bias, dishonesty and all the rest is just slander. It takes a lot of time and work to shake of the propagandised view of the world fed to us by the rich man's media - if you read Chomsky and Pilger you might want to check out their statements with further reading, all of which takes time and money - more than most people can afford! So I can understand people being skeptical and reluctant to accept that practically everything they've taken for granted about the world is untrue. But at least one good thing has come out of the Bush preisidency - the barefaced mendacity over Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the stolen elections and so much else has at least raised questions in a lot more minds.
        I've already said more than this nasty little book merits; there is a species of hack who makes a living by pretending to be left, liberal, caring sharing (or something) while attacking a mythological 'left' for holding views that in fact no-one of the 'left' actually holds, and Chomsky, being the most enduring, prolific and articulate spokesman for the human race, is their most common target. The author and editor of the anti-Chomsky reader are of that species of hack. They are loathsome, malignant intellectual dwarves.
        Don't waste your time and money - read all you can get of Chomsky and Pilger instead. If there is a future in which books can be freely read and published (in whatever format)Chomsky will be revered in the way we revere the great Greek and Roman writers, as the most perceptive analystInterventions (City Lights Open Media) of our times.

        1 out of 5 stars Pure Tripe.......2007-08-10

        I own this book with about 25 other Chomsky books. Anyone familiar with his works will notice how things are distorted out of context to the point of absurdity. Equating anti-America and anti-Israel simply because he speaks out against the abuses of the two governments is a petty play on words.

        Im not going to bother doing anything but urging people to read up on the workds of Chomsky and compare it with this book. The lies, distortions and pathetic attempt to demonize Noam is ridiculous. Every claim in this book has been addressed. All the readers have to do is look and see the truth for themselves.

        1 out of 5 stars Hilarious.......2007-08-03

        This edited volume features an assortment of ex-leftists and Zionists throwing everything at Chomsky, including the kitchen sink. Many of the contributors fail to see the irony in devoting an entire book to trashing a man they accuse of being irrelevant.

        Aside from a few debatable criticisms of Chomsky's linguistic theory, the most this work can do is find Chomsky guilty by association. Big deal.

        5 out of 5 stars Check Out Chomsky's Lesser Known Books.......2007-06-10

        THE ANTI-CHOMSKY READER is a collection of essays by David Horowitz and Peter Collier the purpose of which is to refute the charges of Noam Chomsky, the leftist linguistics professor of MIT, that the United States is a rogue terrorist regime that is responsible for nearly all of the assorted ills and travails of this planet's third world countries. The first question that came to my mind was why was there a need for such an anti-text in the first place? The answer of course is that either one accepts Chomsky at his word that the United States is the world's most evil regime of the 20th century or one does not. For those who do accept his word, there is THE CHOMSKY READER, edited by James Peck. For those who do not and in the interest of fair play there is this book.



        Horowitz and Collier include essays that attack Chomsky's inner core of anti-American screeds. These essays include Chomsky's comments on the legitimacy and humanity of the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge regimes; his assertion that the Cold War was merely a façade behind which the United States continued to seek to expand its post WWII hegemony; his claim that the major media in this country exist only to inculcate "the values that compel obedience to the myths sustaining an aggressive and immoral capitalist system." (Page 69); his bias against Israel that he sees as the sole cause of unrest in the Middle East; and his vision of a morally corrupt capitalist America that fully deserved 9/11. What becomes clear after reading these essays as well as THE CHOMSKY READER is that Chomsky is a one-trick pony. He exists only to bash the United States. Nowhere in any of his writings is there even a hint of praise for America. Chomsky would rather call Marx a capitalist than to say even one kind word about the Founding Fathers. Even if he believed that the United States is truly the demonic plague of the third world, then in the interests of fair play one might think he could mention proudly even one of the following: the Declaration of Independence, Jonas Salk, Orville and Wilbur Wright, and Apollo to the moon.



        For those like Mr. Bloom, the Amazon.Com defender of Chomsky, one might do more than accuse Chomsky's detractors of shoddy scholarship. One might instead refer to areas not often mentioned by Mr. Bloom or any Chomsky supporter--Chomsky's vast corpus of earlier texts that never hit the best seller list. It is in these texts that one reads of Chomsky's unabashed admiration for Neo-Nazi writers like Faurisson, Guillaume, and anti-Semitic journals like La Vielle Taupe. His supporters of course either do not know or do not wish to know of them. I have no objection to anyone who thinks that the United States is responsible for much of what Chomsky claims, but it is not unimportant to see how and to what extant such criticisms connect to clearly a lunatic fringe. And it is this unsavory alliance of Chomsky to Neo-Nazis that renders his judgment as questionable at best and irrelevant at worst.

        5 out of 5 stars Not as helpful as other methods to deal with the possesed, but you gotta improvise.......2007-04-13

        If you hope to use this book as fodder to argue with a Chomskyite, good luck. Chomsky is better than Jesus to his crowd. YOU MUST UNDERSTAND: CHOMSKY HAS NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER MADE A MISTAKE.

        Chomsky = (Jesus + [crack])^(googleplex).

        The argument between Chomskyites and Anit-Chomskyites can quickly be reduced to an argument between science and romanticism, but the metaphor isn't worth the candle. Instead, think of Chomskyites as "The Borg" espousing science and facts as their mantra and legitimization of their agenda and the scientific perfection of man and history. Chomsky is in full drag as their Borg Queen (next miracle: bilocation! Chomsky both did, and did not, defend the Khmer Rouge!). Think of Anti-Chomskities as "Q" and are all, from the Chomskyite's perspective "Mad, bad and dangerous to know."

        Anti-Chomsky slogan: "Zombies, man. They creep me out."

        Chomskyite slogan: "resistance is futile."

        "Father give me the Bull of Heaven,
        So he can kill Gilgamesh in his dwelling.
        If you do not give me the Bull of Heaven,
        I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld,
        I will smash the doorposts, and leave the doors flat down,
        and will let the dead go up to eat the living!
        And the dead will outnumber the living!
        It will be awful!"

        But the ultimate tactic of Chomskyites is to bog you down in an endless hermeneutic circle, where Chomsky's sloppy footnotes are "documented" and "authority" while any picayune errors in anti-Chomsky citations are thus rendered "meaningless" "suspect" and "ideologically agenda driven." Rather than engage in the unendlischgeschicte soul-sucking of the ideological swamp these incubi and succubi will lure you to, follow this advice from George Romero:

        "Field Reporter: Chief, if I were surrounded by eight or ten of these things, would I stand a chance with them?
        Sheriff McClelland: Well, there's no problem. If you have a gun, shoot 'em in the head. That's a sure way to kill 'em. If you don't, get yourself a club or a torch. Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty easy."
        Deconstructing Chomsky: America's leading leftist intellectual sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest.(Culture and Reviews)(Book Review): An article from: Reason
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        Deconstructing Chomsky: America's leading leftist intellectual sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest.(Culture and Reviews)(Book Review): An article from: Reason
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        Title: Deconstructing Chomsky: America's leading leftist intellectual sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest.(Culture and Reviews)(Book Review)
        Author: Mark Bauerlein
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        1 out of 5 stars superficial, and full of rhetoric.......2005-11-26


        I have not read "The Anti-Chomsky Reader", however Mark Bauerlein's
        review loses it's credibility with the first paragraph when it regards
        Chomsky as someone who loves Soviet Union, (a quotation from
        George Orwell in this conservative review is also ironic) which
        is far from reality.

        Does Mark Bauerlenain know that George Orwell fought with anarcho-
        syndicalists against Franco's fascist army? Does he know George Orwell
        promoted democratic socialism in his works?

        Perhaps Orwell, and Chomsky criticise the very same authoritarian
        structure in their works? Mark Bauerlein seems to misunderstand
        George Orwell as well as Noam Chomsky.



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          With a sure hand for pacing and suspense, Hobbs tells the story of Rick Walker, an angry young runaway escaping foster homes and detention centers. Rick takes refuge in the wilderness camp of an eccentric naturalist, Lon Peregrino, who teaches the teen rebel how to care for the California condors under his care. Rick's daring and initiative grow under Lon's guidance as he masters driving a truck over hair-raising mountain roads and hovering over the maze of canyons on the wings of a hang-glider. But is his newfound manhood enough to confront the forces that want the condors dead? And who will help him sort out the maze of his life when the authorities catch up with him? Younger readers graduating from Gary Paulsen's survival stories will be delighted to discover this adventure writer, while older fans of Hobbs's Downriver and other wilderness adventures are likely to deem The Maze one of his best. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell

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          3 out of 5 stars Wilderness Adventure.......2007-07-04

          Rick was just ten when his grandmother, the only family he had, died of lung cancer. After that, he bounced through a series of foster homes, some of which were worse than others. At fourteen, he was living in a group home and was very angry about his life. It didn't seem a big deal to him to spend an afternoon throwing rocks at a stop sign, but the judge he came before saw it as a dangerous warning sign and sentenced him to six months in a juvenile detention center.

          The center is incredibly scary. Rick is worried about the other boys there and he is appalled by the corruption he sees in the maintenance men and among the guards. His observation of this corruption gets him into trouble--he finds out toward the end of his sentence that he has been made a target and the guards are trying to bribe some of the other boys to beat him up badly.

          Instead of waiting around to be beaten and maybe killed, Rick escapes and aimlessly starts hitching or sneaking rides. Soon he ends up stranded in the wilderness of a Utah national park. With no other options, he is forced to reveal himself to Lon, the man whose camp he has ended up invading. Lon is passionate about condor birds and is at the camp to release some young ones into the wild and to study how they survive. He agrees to let Rick stay for awhile.

          Surprisingly, Rick finds himself growing deeply interested in Lon's work, and he develops a bond with the birds Lon is studying. But there are other men, dangerous men, who make it clear that Lon and Rick are both unwelcome in this place.

          I liked the descriptions of the condors; I learned a lot about their habits and beauty from this book. I also liked Lon's character; he was very odd but had an admirable independence and dedication to his work.

          I thought that the characters of Nuke and Carlile were over the top. They should have been able to be much smarter and more subtle than they were. I also thought it was unrealistic for a judge to have sentenced Rick so harshly for doing something fairly benign.

          4 out of 5 stars The Maze.......2007-02-15

          Stranded not knowing where to go, he is so hungry that he feels like he is going to die. Rick Walker is a fourteen year old boy on the run. After escaping from Blue Canyon Detention center because everyone there wanted to beat him to a pulp due to his big mouth, he is now on the run. He hitchhikes his way across the state until he hears a news alert announced on the radio giving his description, and his driver gets suspicious. Then he stows away in the back of a shelled pickup truck. Unknowingly, he is taken to a remote area full of canyons, with no people in sight. There is no where to run, and no where for him to hide. How will fourteen year old Rick Walker survive? Luckily, he meets a new friend in the barren wasteland. Due to these new circumstances, Rick helps his new friend with a new cause, changing the whole plot of the story. Instead of running, he is helping his new friend. The author, Will Hobbs, does an excellent job writing the book. His sentences are very descriptive, and he explains things in away that make you think you area there in the desert with Rick. It is an exciting adventure story with an action-packed storyline. This is a book for people who like survival stories. If you have read and liked any of Gary Paulsen's novels, such as The Hatchet, then you will like this book.

          4 out of 5 stars OK, but a little boring in some areas........2006-06-01

          If I could split stars, then I would give this book 4 and a half stars because I think it deserves more just 4. However, even though the plot has a nice twist with the hang gliding and endangered birds the storyline gets a little boring after a while. Why? Well, because the book contains to many boring subjects that I don't care about. It would of been fine if the author didn't mentoin these things and just stayed on topic.

          Overall, good book and not a bad read. I reccomend it to all those fans of Wilson Rawls and action/adventure books. If intrested in neither, this probably isn't a book for you.

          5 out of 5 stars I'm amazed over The Maze!.......2006-02-16

          Will Hobbs does and excellent job in writing the book, The Maze. He fully explains everything and is very detailed. It is an extremely interesting adventure story with a superb storyline. The fiction in this book makes you think it actually happened. Overall, I think it was one of the best books that I have read since I learned to read! It could easily be yours too.
          In this book, a 14 year old boy named Rick Walter is convicted of a small crime. He has to go to a Juvenile Prison out in the middle of a desert. He is scared because he feels that someone is going to hurt or even kill him so he escapes in the middle of the night. As he keeps running, there is nothing until a gas station appears gracefully in his sight. Moments later he hops into the bed of a pick-up and experiences a long drive into the Maze, a very large grouping of canyons.
          Lon was the driver of the truck and catches Rick, but after a while they become very good friends. In Rick's stay, he and Lon do many adventurous things like hang gliding. Also, they have to cheat death from many horrifying things. Will they survive? Read it and find out!

          3 out of 5 stars Review of The Maze by Brian.......2005-12-15

          Rick found himself sitting in a court room in front ofa judge that did not like him very well. He got in trouble for thowing rocks at a stop sign. The judge made him go to the blue canyon detention center for six months After time had almost stayed his sentence when he escaped because people would beat him up just for a pack oof cirgarets. He hitched a ride to a gas station and after hitched another ride to a resort park where lon peregrino was releasing endangered condors back into the wild. When rick ggot there he stole some hot dogs and stowed away until he tried to take lons truck and get away but he ewent up the clif to fast and almost roled it. lon told rick abou8t his project to help the condors. Lon and rick haad alot in coommon.
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