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How It Really Was: A Memoir of the "Greatest Generation" - Couverture souple

Gray, Pat

 
9780595163762: How It Really Was: A Memoir of the "Greatest Generation"
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595163769 ISBN 13 : 9780595163762
Editeur : iUniverse, 2001

Synopsis

Growing up during the Depression in a small Indiana town, I had never seen a mountain or an ocean when I was twenty-one and had scarcely been outside the state. I had a passion for travel and set out alone for California after World War II. I discovered a new world of sunny beaches, housing shortages, and a job as a traveling saleslady for a music publisher. My territory was everything west of the Mississippi. In Montana, I met a young University band director and married him. Montana was great at first, but twelve years and three children later, I felt as trapped as I had in Indiana. Soon my husband got a job in California and life became exciting once more as we traveled the state, camping at beaches and parks on weekends and vacations. When the kids became teenagers, we decided to camp Europe, so we saved furiously in order to go. It was the trip of a lifetime and it infected the whole family with the "travel bug;" the kids became exchange students, citizens of the world. Once they went off to college and became adults, I found adventure on my own traveling the globe.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Growing up during the Depression in a small Indiana town, I had never seen a mountain or an ocean when I was twenty-one and had scarcely been outside the state. I had a passion for travel and set out alone for California after World War II. I discovered a new world of sunny beaches, housing shortages, and a job as a traveling saleslady for a music publisher. My territory was everything west of the Mississippi. In Montana, I met a young University band director and married him. Montana was great at first, but twelve years and three children later, I felt as trapped as I had in Indiana. Soon my husband got a job in California and life became exciting once more as we traveled the state, camping at beaches and parks on weekends and vacations. When the kids became teenagers, we decided to camp Europe, so we saved furiously in order to go. It was the trip of a lifetime and it infected the whole family with the "travel bug;" the kids became exchange students, citizens of the world. Once they went off to college and became adults, I found adventure on my own traveling the globe.

Biographie de l'auteur

Born in 1924 in Indiana, Pat Gray taught English in California for 30 years, and ESOL in Florida for 9 years. She lives with her husband, Justin, in Fort Lauderdale.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595163769
ISBN 13 
9780595163762
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
292
Coordonnées du fabricant
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