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Once Upon a Time in Tarentum Paperback – November 29, 2011

by Richard Curry Esler (Author)

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Richard Curry Esler traveled the world but called Tarentum, Pennsylvania, his heart s home. I have lived in great and wonderful cities, from Boston to San Francisco, from Chicago to Seattle...Dallas to Miami, but I never felt truly at home until I came back to the Allegheny Valley. Tarentum Country is my place. When he spoke of Tarentum Country, Richard, or Dick, as he was known, was referring to much of the west bank of the Allegheny River from Springdale to Freeport and all the surrounding woods, farmlands, villages and milltowns that stretched all the way to the great city that lay at the confluence of three massive rivers. In this, his fifteenth book, Dick Esler celebrates this place he loved as it was in the time between the two world wars. These were his growing-up years a time when entire families would stroll the downtown Tarentum streets on a Saturday night, shopping and socializing. He gives readers the sights, the sounds, the smells and the very taste of it. Oh, the exotic odor of Bill Chantler s grocery...the smell of fresh ground coffee and cinnamon sticks...bakers chocolate...Japan tea...nutmegs...and floor wax. He paints a summer of great and wonderful fish pulled from the clear Allegheny and a Fourth of July of fried chicken, watermelon and skyrockets over Tarentum. Christmases with real sleigh rides up Bull Creek Road, sled riding down Porter Street and the annual trip to Pittsburgh for shopping at Kaufmann & Baers, Joseph Hornes, Rosenbaums, and Frank & Seders. Dick Esler s Once Upon a Time in Tarentum is his final gift to this place he loved and it is a lasting one.

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Richard Curry Esler was born on Christmas Day, 1909 in Tarentum, Pennsylvania. He and his sister Phyllis grew up in a house that still stands on East Ninth Avenue that was known as the house across the way because it was across the street from Grandview School. Dick Esler attended Tarentum High School and after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, returned to teach high school history and English at his alma mater. In 1944 he took a job with PPG Industries that took him all over the globe. After his retirement in 1973, Mr. Esler wrote short stories and poetry and published fifteen books before he died in 1995. He was married to Cherrilla Mulder, who preceded him in death, and he left behind two sons, Derke Scott Esler and Richard Curry Esler II.