Thursday, January 22, 2015

Throwback Thursday

On this day, in 1930, excavation for the Empire State Building began. It was completed a miraculous 410 days later!
Lewis Hines photo, courtesy ny.curbed.com

 For a fascinating look into this building, try this book by my dear friend Deborah Hopkinson:


For a fictionalized visit to the New York of a few years before ground was broken for this Big Apple icon, try The Friendship Doll, a novel in stories whose first story features a little girl who butts head with Belle Roosevelt, Teddy's granddaughter.
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2 comments:

  1. RosiJanuary 22, 2015 at 8:37 AM

    Two more books for my staggering TBR list. (sigh)

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  2. Kirby LarsonJanuary 22, 2015 at 11:10 AM

    Rosi! Enter my Doggone Good Reads Giveaway, at my author FB page, and tomorrow I'll have a contest to give away a copy of Laurie Thompson's new book. That might help your pocketbook in the face of your growing TBR pile! ;-)

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