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At this time in our lives, especially, we feel it is important to recognize these long-ago tributes.

THIS IS A MIGHTY BIG (600 PAGE) FIRST-RATE biography, written with fervor but told in the calm of long-ago history (Wallace died nearly 35 years ago) about one of the most intriguing almost-but-not-quite characters in America's twentieth century.

There is a real immediacy to "living history" such as this: to learn about some long-ago adventure and then to actually see the same location as it is today.

Farmer-Paellmann is vowing to build the factual basis for lawsuits demanding such restitution from many businesses whose long-ago predecessors in some way benefited from the slave economy.

"We're now very hopeful that the reflection profile records, which we use conventionally to extend the detail information we get from drill holes, will become more readable, and readable in terms of the oceanography of long-ago oceans," Winterer concludes.

An acquaintance begs her to help rid a friend's home of a spirit and she becomes involved in a long-ago murder--and is targeted when she gets too close to the solution.

But preliminary conclusions, based on examinations of rocks and fossils of microscopic organisms from different sediment layers, shed new light on old crustal movement (plate tectonic) and long-ago climatic changes.

All of this spoils none of the inherent drama of that long-ago summer--the outnumbered defenders, the colorful Persian warriors, the tactical surprises, all culminating in Philippides's epic race to tell his countrymen of their great victory.

But other feelings arise as he falls for a strong-willed bush pilot named Meg and becomes embroiled in solving the long-ago murder of her father.

To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2001: A Vietnamese girl, named Zazoo by her adopted grandfather when he brought her to his village in France, tells about meeting a boy from Paris with a strange tale of long-ago love, and about getting acquainted with Felix Klein, the Jewish pharmacist, who lost everyone he loved in that Awful Time (WW II) when the village was occupied by the Nazis.

Young Crow must hunt in order for the two of them to survive, but when he goes into the woods he stumbles upon a talking boulder, which rivets him with "Long-Ago Time stories," tales of "the world before this one." The story of Crow and the talking stone, itself a Seneca legend, serves as a framework for these stories and myths--creation myths, tales of talking animals, and more, each with a moral.