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🗽📚🤓Recommended: "TALES OF FIFTH AVENUE THROUGH TIME" by Frank Muzzy

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To borrow from Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca, “Last night I dreamt I went back to ‘Manderley’ again.” Instead, we will time travel back to 1824 and a similar little unpaved road that crossed the Brevoort’s farm—land holdings that stretched, since 1701, from the Bowery up past today’s Washington Square to 14th Street. Brevoort generations developed the land to the northern outskirts of the village of Manhattan.

"TALES OF FIFTH AVENUE THROUGH TIME" connects that past with the present via yellowed archival photos—the closest we have to time travel. Historical; yes, hysterical; oh yes, scandalous; but of course—all while being documented via panorama, box and brownie, digital and selfie, cinema, silent and sound, capturing the environs of the wealthiest families on the planet that lived on the only avenue to lend its moniker to a candy bar.
Tourist and locals will take a tour bus, and you will too, literarily and visually, past the surviving and ghosts of mansions; past the churches and museums; and past the most exclusive stores credit cards can handle, down the canyon of high-rises that is Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

📣📘Available now: "R. J. MITCHELL: TO THE SPITFIRE" by John Shelton

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The definitive account of the life and designs of Britain’s best-known aeronautical engineer.

John Shelton calls upon unpublished letters and extensive press accounts, concentrating particularly on the harsh conditions of Mitchell’s apprentice years, the precarious state of the aircraft firm he joined, and moments of good fortune of which he took advantage. He was a ‘chancer’ as well as a methodical developer of, mainly, slow-flying seaplanes.

Mitchell’s progress from draughtsman, with no formal training in aeronautical design, to internationally known chief designer is charted through a chronological study of his designs – revealing a formidable work ethic with a complex personality, which combined ‘dreams and common sense’. It will also be shown how the success of his high-speed Schneider Trophy designs propelled him reluctantly into public attention and how his anxiety for his pilots’ safety matched an equal concern that his designs should not let down an expectant nation.

Later expectations on him to produce a ‘killer fighter’ were equally daunting, and the outcome was often uncertain, but details of colleagues’ accounts highlight the essential and unique contribution of Mitchell’s experience and drive to the eventual appearance of the iconic Spitfire.