The rest of the story
It’s hard not to get caught up in the magic of the Lake – and Saylor finds herself falling under Roo’s spell as well. Roo holds the key to her family’s history, and slowly, he helps her put the pieces together about her past. Then there’s Roo, the boy who was her very best friend when she was little. But to her new family, she is Saylor, the name her mother always called her. When Emma arrives at the Lake, and spends more time with her mother’s side of the family, she starts to feel like she is two different people. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted, sweeping novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasnt seen. until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother’s family – her grandmother and cousins she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl. 1 Beginning as a part of his newscasts during the Second World War and then premiering as its own series on the ABC Radio Networks on May 10, 1976, The Rest of the Story consisted of stories presented as little-known or forgotten facts on a variety of subjects with some key element of the story (usually the name of some well-known person) held back until the end.
Now it’s just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable. The Rest of the Story was a Monday-through-Friday radio program originally hosted by Paul Harvey. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever. He was a master at connecting yesterday to the present and to tomorrow - he was an early proponent of drawing insight from the past in order to do better in the future.About the Book From number one New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl – and falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer.Įmma Saylor doesn’t remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was ten. Harvey's success in bringing backstories and history to life arguably paved the way for many American documentary programs like Behind the Music. People trusted what he was telling, and so they trusted what he was selling. MacArthur Foundation, Harvey's voice, transitioning seamlessly from a story to commentary to a carefully placed advertisement, became a kind of brand kingmaker. Much like the ubiquitous voice on NPR thanking the John D. What every storytelling program needs is an investor, and among Harvey's truest gifts was his ability to keep sponsors. Save 50 Nancy Zieman, the Rest of the Story Book with DVDItem : AMNZRS A memoir of Faith, Family, and Friends Thousands of you read and enjoyed Nancys. Louis.īut as I and any other editor, writer, reporter or media professional will tell you, it's often not enough to have the right voice, stories and supporting team. And even though he would have plenty of mentors along the way, his work was most often honed by his wife - and producer - who was also a fervent student of history and a graduate of Washington University in St. There is his classic, Jonathan Edwards-esque If I Were the Devil: How to Destroy America.Īnd how many know that Harvey earned a permanent spot in the history textbooks when he coined the phrase Reaganomics?Ī longtime lover of history - a love cultivated by a single mother who raised him after his policeman father was killed - Harvey made waves early, getting his first radio gig at just age 14.
He quickly made his name by explaining the "mysteries of history" and commenting, sometimes with extreme fervor, on the decline of American moralism. He made his way to Chicago, where he took up broadcasting on ABC - and he didn't leave the airwaves for years. Indeed, Harvey came out of that age of politics: He briefly served in World War II but was discharged (possibly for psychiatric reasons, an account he disputed). To hear him now is to feel at least a little nostalgic for that classic-radio mid-American accent - the kind that makes you think of political power in the 1940s and '50s, from FDR to Truman. The story of Louis Zamperini captured the attention of Americans in the 1940’s and again in recent years thanks to the biography by Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption and the hit movie Unbroken. For more than three decades, from the 1970s to his death in 2009, Harvey would address his millions of listeners six days a week, giving them the backstory to people, things and events both famous and not-so-known.įrom the origin of Coca-Cola to an account of JFK's assassination through his widow's eyes, from his tales of Elvis Presley's childhood to the Revolutionary War, the Oklahoma native had a magical fluidity to his storytelling.