 | Growing Up on Rt. 66 is the memoir of two farm siblings, Ray born 1935 and Theresa 1944. They lived on a 200-acre tenant farm on the 100-milepost from downtown Chicago with their gravel driveway leading out to the legendary Rt. 66. Early life for them was no running water, electricity, or central heating but lots of interdependence with the land, weather, neighbors, and each other as a family of four. Rt. 66 travelers brought them a different kind of exposure to the outside world, but rarely changed the character of what rural life was like. |
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 | Scottish Roots: Finding the Munros is a part fact, part fiction story of one family. The narrative describes Highland clan living in the 1770’s to Lowland life which included owning an iron foundry in the 1800’s in Arbroath. Emigration to the state of Illinois in America came in 1853. The author traveled to Scotland in 1993 to find a family iron marker in a graveyard of all stone markers. This event inspired her to write a novel about her family. This is the third in a series of ebooks on finding her roots. |
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 | Don’s Great Escape is one man’s story of being in two German POW camps in WWII. Don’s plane went down over occupied France in 1943. He was captured and sent to Stalag Luft III made famous by the 1963 movie The Great Escape which chronicled the tunneling and escape efforts of the prisoners. Equally dramatic to the tunneling story is the story of evacuation of this camp later in the war. On January 28, 1945, Stalag Luft III was evacuated so the camp would not be captured by the Russians. After several days of walking in severe winter conditions and being transported by boxcars, the prisoners eventually ended up in Stalag VIIA at Moosburg where circumstances at war’s end were challenging on all levels of daily life. Don was liberated on April 29, 1945, by General Patton and his troops. His story is told through letters written home to his parents in rural Illinois. |
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