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The Hurricane of 1938:
Memories of the Storm of the Century
by Chris Wisniewski Published by the Norwich Bulletin, 2013
An oral history of the great hurricanne of 1938. Read personal accounts from over 65 residents of Norwich and the surrounds area. See over 60 photographs, many never published before. Experience the storm through the eyes of the people who lived through it.
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Sto Lat -
A Hundred Years of the Wisniewski Family in America
by Chris Wisniewski
Sto Lat documents the way of life of Polish immigrants who settled in Southeastern Connecticut in the first half of the 1900s as told through the stories of the ten children of the Wisniewski family.
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Sometime a Clear Light:
A Photographer’s Journey Through Alaska, Nigeria, and Life
by Aylette Jenness
edited by Chris Wisniewski
Aylette Jenness, writer, photographer, adventurer, looks back at her life to find insight into the past as she is losing her physical sight due to macular degeneration.
Aylette reflects on living with her husband and two small children in a tiny Yu’pik village in Alaska in the early 1960s, and on the time they spent in Africa from 1966 to 1969, three of the most terrible years of the Nigerian Civil War (the Nigerian-Biafran War). It was a tumultuous time for Aylette, as well, as she split from her husband, an anthropologist, who had been sent to Nigeria to study resettlement caused by the construction the Kainji Dam.
She follows her evolution as a single mother, an author of eleven children’s books on diverse cultural groups, and as a self-taught photographer. Her photographs of the Fulani, Sarkawa, Kamberi, and Hausa people of Yelwa, Kainji, and Ibadan, which capture a lost way of life, are now are housed in the "Aylette Jenness Collection" at the Smithsonian’s National Musuem of African Art.
Aylette Jenness, now 87, looks back into her past in an attempt to find insight — trying to find a clear light.
Jennie's Diary -
The Aussie from Posi
by Jennifer Hanlon
edited by Chris Wisniewski
Jennie Hanlon travelled the world embracing whatever jobs and opportunities were presented to her, from being a young secretary in Australia, a nurse in Tasmania, to working for Vern Lambert at Emmerton & Lambert’s vintage clothing shop at the Chelsea Antiques market in swinging London. She ran two clothing boutiques catering to the snow gypsies in the Swiss Alps and was a nanny in Rome. She was a clothing designer in Positano and had a fashion show for three weeks in 1978 with a group of Californian designers in the Plaza Hotel in New York. She worked in the German and Swedish film industry and also at one of the best known hotels in Positano. Along the way, she crossed paths with interesting characters and famous personalities including musicians, actors, politicians, artists, writers, photographers and even a few ghosts. Jennie's Diary tells of her life, along with her daughter, Carmen Sorrenti. It is a life filled with good friends and adventure.
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