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Four Blue Stars in the Window: One Family's Story of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the Duty of a Generation - Couverture souple

Eymann Mohrman, Barbara

 
9780988417410: Four Blue Stars in the Window: One Family's Story of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the Duty of a Generation
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ISBN 10 : 0988417413 ISBN 13 : 9780988417410
Editeur : Bern Street Publishing LLC, 2012

Synopsis

Fifty years ago, a young girl opened a cardboard box in her basement. Long forgotten, it contained her father’s World War II uniform, vintage photos, semaphore flags, and other WWII keepsakes. The box opened up a world of pain and joy to author Barbara Eymann Mohrman as she set out on a personal journey to trace her family history and inadvertently, unspoken Eymann family secrets. This is the story of hard-scrabble life in rural Oakdale, Nebraska (population 851) starting in the heyday of the 1920s. Chriss Eymann, a newly arrived Swiss immigrant and his wife, Hattie Mae, raised ten children on the Dust Bowl-ravaged plains during the 1930s in the depths of the Great Depression. But their greatest sacrifice was yet to come—when they sent four young sons off to war in the South Pacific and Europe. The mother’s flag with its four blue stars proudly displayed the family’s precious contribution to the war effort. The story traces in detail and vintage photos from 1930 to 1947 the anguish, danger, and their everlasting hope with some surprising family news that brings the story full circle.

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À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Eymann Mohrman is a lifelong educator who has taught Spanish and English as a Second Language. She attended Nebraska Wesleyan University where Nebraska Poet Laureate William Kloefkorn was her teacher. She received a master’s degree in education from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. A doting grandmother and avid reader, she lives in her home state of Nebraska.

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Éditeur
Bern Street Publishing LLC
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0988417413
ISBN 13 
9780988417410
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
358
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