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Walker's Manly Exercises was written by Donald Walker in the 19th century. The book is a comprehensive guide to physical exercises and sports that were popular at the time. It contains detailed instructions on how to perform various exercises, including rowing, sailing, riding, driving, racing, hunting, shooting, and other manly sports.The book was important because it emphasized the importance of physical exercise and its benefits. It was written at a time when people were becoming increasingly sedentary, and it was believed that physical exercise was essential for good health. The book was aimed at wealthy readers who lived sedentary lifestyles and provided them with a guide to physical activity that could help them improve their health and well-being.Today, people should read this book because it provides a fascinating insight into the history of physical exercise and sports. It is also a reminder of the importance of physical activity for good health and well-being. The book contains a wealth of information on various exercises and sports that are still popular today, such as rowing, sailing, and hunting. It is a great resource for anyone who is interested in physical activity and wants to learn more about its history and benefits. It is also the first Western book that included detailed notes about the practice of Indian club swinging, a juggling discipline that still exists to this day.This is an important book that provides a fascinating insight into the history of physical exercise and sports. It is a reminder of the importance of physical activity for good health and well-being, and it is a great resource for anyone who is interested in physical activity and wants to learn more about its history and benefits.

Ronald Walker grew up in Europe as an Overseas Military Brat. This is his story of how he went from boyhood to manhood living in a most unusual time and place, namely in Madrid, Spain during the 1960s and early '70s. For anyone who was there during that very magical time and place, his story will be a wonderful and nostalgic trip to the past. For those not lucky enough to have that experience, his tales will enlighten, inform and reveal what his experiences were really like living in one of the most exciting cities in Europe, at a time when the entire world was going through such turbulent and profound changes.Part travelogue, part coming-of-age story, and part personal confessions, his stories not only include his travels and adventures all around Spain, but also across the Straits of Gibraltar into Morocco, and then later his unusual experiences while traveling and working in Holland and Germany. Afterward, he explains in detail the many difficulties and challenges of trying to adapt to life in the United States after living overseas most of his life.Being set in the 1960s and early '70s, sex, drugs, and rock and roll all play a big part in his stories. He explores all three in detail, from his first time getting to third base, to smoking kif in Morocco, to watching the Beatles perform live at the Bullring in Madrid when he was only 12 years old and how that experience changed his life forever. His honesty, humor, and openness about his adventures and experiences leave the reader with not only a deeper knowledge and a better understanding of the places and times he explains so well, but also what it was like to be a "Stranger in a Strange Land" (both in Europe as well as in his own country) and what it was like growing up as an Overseas Military Brat.

One of the goals of an amateur genealogist like myself is to publish a book showing the backward path of one's family heritage. Each of us recall our own past travels and experiences that have brought us to where we presently reside in life-and while these experiences were important to each of us-all of our ancestors experienced similar events in their own times, in their own ways, and in their own environments. Today's generations feel the same pride of living in a modern world that our relatives living in 1700 felt as they looked back at their ancestors who lived in the 1600s before them. And yet it is seldom that a modern man or woman takes the time to consider the thoughts or lifestyles of their future descendants, but life goes on and our descendants will wonder how their ancestors of the 20th and 21st centuries managed to cope with so little to support them. Another goal of a genealogist is accuracy: but to what degree of accuracy? Exact dates for births and deaths are especially sought after, but almost impossible to be sure of: tombstones are sometimes added to grave sites many years after a relative's death, dates of birth and christening are sometimes as confused with each other as the day of death and the day of burial, old tombstone "8's" become "0's" with stone deterioration, mistakes are common on newspaper death notices, and so on. While accuracy is always preferred, it is the actual life-details of that are more important. A few days, months, or even a few year's error has little real meaning in the life of an ancestor. It is our life's events that have the most meaning and it is sad that so little is known about our ancestor's prior existence-leading to the question: "What will your future descendants know about you?"During the last thirty-five years I've been researching my wife's and my own family genealogies. The following information was collected in courthouses, historical societies, family newsletters, correspondence with other researchers, from family members, the internet (copying and researching), and various other sources.I began gathering this family information with little knowledge of what I was doing or where the research would lead, but I learned about genealogy along the way and my methods of research slowly evolved into competent procedures. I couldn't name all of my sources if I wanted to, but there were a few sources that warrant special notation since more than average assistance or information came from them: The Manges Newsletter, edited by Helen Menges Mains; Bender-Bainter-Painter . . . family information compiled by Joseph Linn Marino; The Hull Family History, compiled by Ruth Hull Robertson; The Horn Family, compiled by James E. Potts; information on the Manges family from Betty Jane Philpot; and information on the Bender family from Doris Gragg. A large portion of my research papers have been donated to the Pioneer Historical Society in Bedford, Pennsylvania [Note: the previous information was written in 1995 for a previous edition of this book. Since that time the book has more than doubled in size]. And now I continue these notes in 2011.I did not join any two families that I knew did not belong attached to each other. There are some attachments that are weakly bound, but if there was no reason to join two families I did not do so, nor did I join any two families with the goal of simply extending the lineage further back in time, or to add a greater number of names to my family tree chart. My primary concern has always been to honor mine and my wife's ancestors by reporting them as accurately as possible, as I hope my future descendants will express that honesty in researching my generation.Ron Walker 2011

As I type the first sentence of this prelude it is March 3, 2011. The reason for mentioning this date is that throughout the following personal history there will be many references to dates regarding a large number of life experiences. Everyone has life experiences-what is life but having life experiences? However, when our mind flashes back and forth to earlier events we seldom question the relationship of these experiences to each other, nor do we devote much attention to how these thought processes began in the first place. However, when we deal with others we notice their individual patterns of living, their appearance, their style of thinking and how they each seem to relate to daily life. You recognize the flow of their existence and you know that if you accept their life style it will lead to a satisfactory relationship, whereas introducing words or actions that disrupt their stream of life causes heightened emotions and conflictions. For you to do so, in their mind-it was you who removed yourself from their earlier positioning [estimation] of your life flow-your station in life. It is this station in life, or flow of everyday existence that I will be writing about. Much of this history will consist of things that I've done, people I've known, and places I've been, but here and there I will step deeper into my thoughts and motives to describe my personality's formation in a manner that will serve as a guide for the reader to analyze their own personality development-my name can be replaced by the reader's name-the reader just needs to insert their own experiences in place of mine. Although heredity presents us with different physical appearances, degrees of stamina, intelligence, emotional capabilities, and the "luck of the draw" selects our parents, our race, and nationality, we basically think alike and act alike throughout our lives. I have won several "minor awards" during my life, but I am not inferring for a moment that I'm any better an individual than anyone else. I believe my life was average, which leads me to the goal of explaining why my life was average; rather than more successful [or less successful]. I would like to describe what motivated me (and perhaps you, the reader) to achieve certain awards, or goals in life: causing certain patterns of behavior to occur. We each unconsciously develop self-imposed limitations concerning winning or losing and avoiding certain competitive areas in life. Our definition of awards will be expanded to include one's spouse or partner, your occupation, ownership of a business, your choice of residence, and many other frequent challenges met during a normal lifetime...And finally, as I sit here typing an introduction to a work that has taken many years to complete I would like to add that regardless of how depressed I may appear many times in the following pages-I've had a good life. No one can travel back in time and avoid past mistakes or grasp missed opportunities, but many times I have returned in my thoughts and learned from my past experiences. As I've mentioned, you cannot change your past or rebuild your genetic or personality foundations, but you can learn to appropriately structure areas of your current life over the good and the bad surface areas of your personality's foundation. I am proud of my family and satisfied with my education and my employment history. I won't say that I should have performed better as a husband, father, grandfather, student, or worker-because as the following pages will outline, I did the best I could using my foundation for each of these roles in life. Even at the age of seventy-five I still consider myself "green and growing."

The following Walker, Bitzer, and their family's ancestry information was collected from many sources since 1984. Most of the entries tell where the information was discovered, but some information was gathered even earlier-before I had any idea of printing a history-and in some of those cases I photocopied pages from books, manuscripts, etc. without noting the source information. However, where the latter occurred I have tried to carefully compare my information with other sources to determine its accuracy. In some cases I omitted questionable information. Nearly all of the information for "Harry St. Clair Walker and Margaret Bitzer" and much of "The Bitzer and Weisbrod Family History" chapters was taken from interviews with family members, or through correspondence with them. Special recognition should be extended to a few sources where more than average information was derived: Alexander Walker - Story by Myrtle Mauk Cunningham, Amana; The Community of True Inspiration by Bertha M. H. Shambaugh, family data from Mrs. Martin H. Fels of Homestead, Iowa and Kathie Young of Ford City, Pennsylvania.The pedigree charts in the back of this book include all of the families noted in the Table of Contents, plus many other ancestors whom you may someday wish to add on your own. Ronald Dennis WalkerBaltimore, Maryland2014

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