L. Ray Sears

Let Go To Listen Cape Cod Ruminations (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A series of ruminations about the author's experiences on Cape Cod as a summer kid and now family historian. This compilation seeks to encourage others to get involved in writing their recollections.

Dennis, Massachusetts, Sep 2019. Ray Sears has just released his compilation of Cape Cod Ruminations titled Let Go To Listen. The book compiles years of memories about visits to Cape Cod as a summer kid combined with other life stories about the Army, sailing, studying family history, and traveling around the world.
Sponsored by the Cape Cod Genealogical Society, the publication committee chairs, David Martin and Carolyn Weiss write "This compilation of reflections and essays by Ray is a signal contribution to genealogy in an important way. Ray as Editor of the Society publications since 2001 has been an untiring influence on the production of our publications. This book is an illumination of Cape Cod's past not only during his own lifetime but also indirectly the past before his time through the stories heard and events recorded in his family history."
The memories include titles like Bounceberries, Dog Tags and Draft Cards, Shipwrecked, Barnstable to Boston, Cape Cod Airport and many others.
This compilation of stories seeks to encourage others to get involved in writing their recollections. The book can be ordered at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/CapeCodRuminations
The Sears Family Association has been striving since 1976 to record the history of the many thousands of Descendants of Richard Sears of Yarmouth (now East Dennis), Plymouth Colony, circa 1639.
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Produktdetails

• Verlag: L. Ray Sears III
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463118740
• Artikelnr.: 72309734

Autorenporträt

Leslie Ray Sears, III attended Yorktown High School, Arlington, VA and received a BSEE from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He had an ROTC scholarship there and was commissioned a 2LT in the US Army in 1974. He served in the Signal Corps until 1982 and was a platoon leader in the 25th Signal Battalion, and Company Commander of the 232d Signal Company, Worms, Germany. He has been working on the Sears Family History since 1976 and is author of Sears Genealogical Catalogue c.1992 and a follow-on series of newsletters. As Family Historian, he maintains the website for the Sears Family Association™ He graduated from the University of Utah MBA, 1974 paid for courtesy of the US Army and taxpayers like you! After finishing his Army career he worked in the oil patch for Halliburton Services and received patents for his work on oil well cementing instrumentation. With 17 years of oilfield work as a research engineer he decided to try his hand at the dot.com world during the boom of the late 90s. Working at Cape Internet he helped provide Internet Service via dial-up MODEM to 20,000 subscribers on Cape Cod. That company was purchased by Earthlink so he went to work for eJobBid - a custom home insulation application and then intraMedia, a custom software development firm. Returning to Oklahoma, Ray worked for Northrop Grumman Corporation on Air Force contracts at Tinker AFB for 17 years and retired in the summer of 2018 to pursue his genealogy interests full-time!