Visitors and residents alike will enjoy exploring Brevard County, a recreational paradise where the high-tech space program exists alongside amazing natural areas like the Indian River Lagoon estuary the most diverse marine estuary in the U.S. Comprehensive listings make this your most informative and entertaining vacation-planning tool."

Serendipity, good fortune through chance, led Henry Bertram and Catherine O'Connell to Iowa, the heartland of America and a melting pot of immigrants. He was German and Lutheran; she was Irish and Catholic. They met at the dawn of the twentieth century, just as a young and hopeful America was spreading its wings and preparing to fly. This memoir blends muted tones of conversations, genealogy, history, artifacts, and photographs into a colorful and compelling portrait of an ordinary family living in extraordinary times. The narrative is a labor of love, a tribute to those who journeyed before...