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Walking the Rails: My Childhood in Whitehall - Couverture souple

Radmer, Ethel Erickson

 
9781475910087: Walking the Rails: My Childhood in Whitehall
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1475910088 ISBN 13 : 9781475910087
Editeur : iUniverse, 2012

Synopsis

For Ethel Erickson Radmer, a child of the 1930s, life in Wisconsin was an adventure filled with imagination, fun, and curiosity. Hers was a simple life, without computers and cell phones. It was a time when people in a small town dropped in on each other to visit and paid their bills in person. It was a time when folks honored courtesy and neighborly affection. If you knew someone was in the hospital, you brought them flowers-from your own garden. Ethel grew up in a railroad town that bustled with supplies and troops for World War II. To a small girl from a small town, a Green Bay & Western Railroad passenger car represented nothing short of freedom. But Ethel found joy in the simple things-a playground for roller skating . . . a golf course made just for picnics and sled-ding (and swinging clubs) . . . nearby farmland and barns to explore . . . and a meandering river to quiet her heart. It was a simpler time, but Ethel Erickson Radmer was no simple girl. "Walking the Rails is everything a good memoir should be-generously detailed, disarmingly frank, and emotionally moving. With wit, irony, and generosity of spirit, Ethel Radmer has woven a heartwarming and lush tapestry of growing up in a loving American family during the difficult days of the Great Depression, World War II, and its aftermath". -Dave Wood, past vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle, former book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and memoirist

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Présentation de l'éditeur

For Ethel Erickson Radmer, a child of the 1930s, life in Wisconsin was an adventure filled with imagination, fun, and curiosity. Hers was a simple life, without computers and cell phones. It was a time when people in a small town dropped in on each other to visit and paid their bills in person. It was a time when folks honored courtesy and neighborly affection. If you knew someone was in the hospital, you brought them flowers-from your own garden. Ethel grew up in a railroad town that bustled with supplies and troops for World War II. To a small girl from a small town, a Green Bay & Western Railroad passenger car represented nothing short of freedom. But Ethel found joy in the simple things-a playground for roller skating . . . a golf course made just for picnics and sled-ding (and swinging clubs) . . . nearby farmland and barns to explore . . . and a meandering river to quiet her heart. It was a simpler time, but Ethel Erickson Radmer was no simple girl. "Walking the Rails is everything a good memoir should be-generously detailed, disarmingly frank, and emotionally moving. With wit, irony, and generosity of spirit, Ethel Radmer has woven a heartwarming and lush tapestry of growing up in a loving American family during the difficult days of the Great Depression, World War II, and its aftermath". -Dave Wood, past vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle, former book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and memoirist

Biographie de l'auteur

Ethel Erickson Radmer is the author of My Odyssey with Two Uncommon Boys: A Trip to the Western States ; Conversations with Carl: My Journey Through Grief ; and The Cheshire Cat Syndrome: My Adventures with Arthritis. She currently lives in North Carolina.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1475910088
ISBN 13 
9781475910087
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
134
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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