Where All Past Years Are

by Joseph Allen

Overview

Starting on Thanksgiving Day 1954, the Chadwick family encounters wars, financial crashes, 9-11, and the Great Recession. As a family with a WASP history they discover the wider world that is America, marry across religious, racial and ethnic lines, live, love, laugh and celebrate Thanksgiving and Independence Day at the Old Home on the shore of Lake Champlain near the Canadian border in New York.

The love of husbands and wives, the closeness of relatives who are an increasingly rainbow-like group, the touching beauty of the Old Home on the Lake as some family members move back to the property into new cottages – all are major themes. Children running a three-legged race watch the young man, Gray Chadwick, drop to his knees to beg his pregnant girlfriend, Melissa, to marry him. Births, deaths, burials, 4th of July fireworks, boating and bass fishing, and the strengthening power of love lead to a final surprising and unexpected reunion of two branches of the family for the first time in over three hundred years.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161646342
Publisher:	Rogue Phoenix Press
Publication date:	08/14/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

The largest part of Joe’s career was spent at Allen & Caron Inc., a consulting and investor relations firm he founded in 1981 in Irvine, California. Under his leadership, the company worked with clients in the UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, South Africa, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Argentina, among other countries.
Joe has served on the boards of several small public companies, was vice chairman of the United Way in Orange County, California, and has written on a variety of topics for numerous leading magazines and newspapers and has been a contributor to SeekingAlpha.com.
Joe is the author of five nonfiction books including Effective Business Communications: A Practical Guide and Systems in Actions: A Social and Managerial Approach, which was used as a text in advanced problem-solving in several MBA programs, including at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He contributed chapters to two Aspatore (Thomson Reuters) books on investor relations.
His first success in “trade” books (meaning books sold in bookstores) was Sandcastles: The Splendors of Enchantment. His first mystery novel, Rocky Point Road, was published in 2015, followed by The Monteverdi Manuscript in 2016. His new novel is a generational story of a New York upstate family from the Eisenhower years to the post-911 era: Where All Past Years Are. It will be published September 1, 2018. After that will be The Hanging Man, a sequel to The Monteverdi Manuscript.
Joe studied Classical Languages and English Literature at UCLA in the 1960s, prior to becoming an editor at Sage Publications, a publisher of scholarly journals in the social sciences, and then a marketing manager at Benziger Bruce & Glencoe, a college publishing subsidiary of Macmillan.