The Man I Knew: Herbert Barness in the Press, 1957 - 1998

"When Joseph Barness, an immigrant from Eastern Europe, built and sold his first house in the 1920s, his goal was to provide newcomers and his surrounding neighbors in the farm community of Bucks County, PA, with the American Dream: home ownership. In 1948, his younger son Herbert-a recent graduate of Bucknell University and a decorated Army Air Force captain in World War II-joined him in a growing real estate business. In the decades that followed, Herb went on to transform the family company that began with a single house into a hugely successful, far-reaching, and visionary real estate development organization. That story, along with Herb Barness's many landmark contributions to Pennsylvania politics, sports, and community life, is chronicled here for the first time in this remarkable collection of articles and personal documents ... Featuring more than 100 photos from original press clippings and the Barness archives, and annotated with insights by his daughter Lynda Barness"--