Looking Back at Elyria: A Midwest City at Midcentury

Looking Back at Elyria: A Midwest City at MidcenturyRevisit your Elyria youth with your very own time travel guide. Author Marci Rich combines journalism, historical research, and memoir to look back at midcentury Elyria. Brimming with postwar optimism and prosperity, mid twentieth century Elyria seemed like Camelot and was, indeed, a brief passage on a beloved president's campaign trail. You could visit the bears at Cascade Park and play on the slides. See a movie at the Capitol Theatre and enjoy a

including the long-lost Civil War submarine Hunley

the magical town where Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy's father

building fires

but things might not be so easy

when the Nazis took him away

cocreated by Laura

" one part "The Great Gatsby

Mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's textbooks and into his life

" She might have survived the mysterious disease that killed most of America's children

There are five books in all

including the New York Times bestsellers Brainstorm

Publisher: Agate B2