Biography & Memoirs on page 4

Although Suvilla Bontrager Hershberger weighed less than four pounds when she was born at home in 1919, she survived and lived to the ripe old age of 92. Suvilla was expected to pitch in and help with the work while still young and she worked hard all through her life. As she lived through the depression years she learned the necessity for frugality. And as part of a tight-knit Amish community she learned the art of caring and sharing. In 1997 while living in Sun City, Arizona, Suvilla participated in a class for writing life stories. She laboriously hand wrote her story on ruled tablet paper and had it copied for each of her children and grandchildren. Now her daughter has transcribe ...

On June 30, 2016, Marie “Ree” Miller celebrated her eightieth birthday. That marks eighty years of life experiences, sixty-two years of sisterhood in the Immaculate Heart of Mary order, and zero years of retirement from her selfless work as a sister. Ree has experienced—and here, retold—many different types of work and has encountered many different people. She has traveled to Kenya, taught classes at inner-city schools, directed summertime camps for disadvantaged city kids, and most recently, has single-handedly managed a parish with her best friend Tiz Fleckenstein by her side. Part Ree’s history, part my weekend experiences, A Weekend with Ree will hopefully honor and give insight i ...

As the young wife of a USAF pilot, the author is not authorized to accompany her husband when he receives orders for Vietnam. She decides to go anyway, on her own, and ends up in the country before her husband.Join her, as she arrives alone, the day after a coup, and in the middle of a cholera epidemic. Accompany her through her fears, challenges, and joys, as she taps into a hidden western culture that seems to flow as an undercurrent beneath the noise and clamor of an over-populated city. You also will witness her interaction with the Vietnamese people, and learn how she developed such a gret affection for them and their country. It is the author’s hope that the reader will develop a s ...

The turbulent years of the 1960's to early 2000's takes a young man on the wild ride of a career in the property business in England, Australia, the British Virgin Islands and the USA.

I met Alison a year ago, in a bitterly cold New England winter. I wrote a poem a day for the first 25 days and nearly one a week after that. She has invaded my writing in a way no one else has ever done, as if I've been consumed by her very existence. For our anniversay, I complied nearly 50 poems that weren't the worst and presented them to her in a collection I called "Alison, My Aim Is True." (She'll glare at me for making that particular Elvis Costello reference, but I couldn't not take that oppurtunity when it presented itself.) In 23 years, I have never felt this way, not even about the girl in the first grade who gave me an acorn under the oak tree in the school parking lot. I swo ...

Born in wild Alaska in 1916, on a fishing boat off the coast of Juneau, Juno's start in life was not ideal. By the time she reach the age of three, she found herself in a Seattle orphange. From that point on, Juno's life was one of many starts and changes. Finding my grandmother was a journey in of itself. I had many questions to ask her and I knew she would have a good story to tell. Juno didn't disappoint me.

Los errores en los matrimonios, son fracasos seguros para los hijos. Si tomáramos como propios los problemas ajenos, no habría fracasos. Los reflejos de un padre, repercute en los hijos y éstos repiten lo que ven de sus padres.

Miracles do happen

This little book is just a taste of Amboy’s yesteryears. It’s not meant to be an exhaustive history lesson or even a complete listing of eye-witness happenings. It’s the voices of people who lived in and around Amboy through the century; it’s a collective history, with some folklore mixed in.