Name: Rockaway Memories: Growing up in Rockaway Beach, Long Island, Hardcover/Joseph Daniel Murphy
Brand: Dorrance Publishing Co.
Price: 209.99 RON
Availability: InStock

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A national treasure of family life on Rockaway Beach, Long Island in the 1920's - 1930's through WWII. A captivating story written by Joseph Daniel Murphy , a WWII naval officer. Life lessons about family, compassion, faith, determination, and survival-from a member of the "Greatest Generation". A deeply personal story of one young man growing up in the early 1920's and 1930's in the Belle Harbor section of Rockaway Beach, Long Island. Life was dramatically different than the hustle and bustle of families living in New York City which was just thirty miles away. In the remote location of the Long Island Peninsula and Belle Harbor, very few families had automobiles and public transportation was a long and time-consuming process. As a result, people didn't leave their small neighborhoods or their Atlantic Ocean playground very often. Everyone watched out for one another and took care of each other. Growing up in Rockaway in the 1920's-1930's provides the framework of what helped shape and build the gentlemen and officer Joseph would become. It is a self-written memoir of essential life lessons of family, community, service, and survival during a period of history that challenged America's grit and produced the "Greatest Generation". The 'Great Depression' was an economic challenge to every American. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal helped rebuild America, and his 'Fireside Chats' calmed everyone's fears and gave the American people a reason to believe that life would