Review on Romancing Eureka

Received below Review today --- Thanks, Conrad 5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely town, loving look back, June 14, 2011 By Conrad Brown "Captain" (North Carolina) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) This review is from: Romancing Eureka: We Found It ! (Paperback) I love this book. Many books, pamphlets, brochures and articles have been written about Eureka Springs since it founding in 1880. It was then a mecca for people searching for miraculous cures for the common ailments of the day. Romancing Eureka pulls it all together with a charming story of two sisters in 1905 visiting the town for the first time and by chance encounter with a handsome, witty, extremely courteous and wealthy gentlemen, are whisked around town and it's outlying attractions in the grand style. Much of what the girls encounter it present there today. Following the first world war, reliance on natural "cures" from drinking some particular water or bathing in some smelly mud fell out of favor due to the advances in medicine of the day, no matter how crude they appear today. Eureka Springs, as a spa fell on hard times. The population fell back to a few hundred from the thousands who previously sought to live there. Many of the buildings thrown up in the beginning had been lost to fires and by the early 1930's those that remained were salvaged and the building materials shipped off to more prosperous cities and towns. This was not a bad things. The lack of "progress" kept the town pretty much as it had always been, so much so that the whole town in on the Register of Historic Places! Today however, Eureka has become a touristy place, hundreds of B&B's, guest houses and "attractions" designed to relieve the traveler of their burdensome extra cash. It is still a neat place to visit, like New Orleans French Quarter, or Key West's Duval Street, but don't expect antiquity except as interpreted by the merchants of the town. I love the book for the happy memories it brings back to me, a former resident of the town. http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B004803MNU

Welcome Home, Dan Ellis

Arrived back from New Orleans and Gulf Coast having gained 8 pounds but mastered a bunch of fun and vittles. I set myself back down to writing

Mother's Day

this is the day before Mother's Day. In remembrance of my mom, who passed on in February 1996, I have been updating and revising a book I published as a compilation of memoirs contributed by daughters, sons, sisters, and other family members. "Lili of the Lake" can now be found in my book collections posted with Amazon.Books. A Martini for you, Mom!

Dan Ellis Books: Amazon Books are Awesome

Dan Ellis Books: Amazon Books are Awesome: "Amazon Books has allowed self-publishers to post their books to the internet world (including Video and Audio). It was a bit tedious at firs..."

Amazon Books are Awesome

Amazon Books has allowed self-publishers to post their books to the internet world (including Video and Audio). It was a bit tedious at first learning the requirements and formats, but it didn't take long before I was proficient.

I definitely recommend anyone interested in authoring to consider this approach.

Amazon's partner in this endeavor, "CreateSpace," also provides a very simple routine to generate one's own book covers with ample selections of styles, fonts, and colors.

So, I am still in process of placing books on their platform for sales and distribution.
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