"We stopped to rest and quickly felt our daughter's presence. It was here on this curve of path we asked permission to place this bench in her memory." - Ron Talney, "A Dance of Wind" " . . . poor baby Gus had simply slipped out of the back of the wagon. He was lying on his back, wide awake, sucking on his binky, in the middle of the dark street, still wearing his hat, boots and his smile." - Dana Berry, "Motherhood and Other Disasters: Halloween" "Adelaide Henrietta Hodgekiss was a retired music teacher in her ...
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"We stopped to rest and quickly felt our daughter's presence. It was here on this curve of path we asked permission to place this bench in her memory." - Ron Talney, "A Dance of Wind" " . . . poor baby Gus had simply slipped out of the back of the wagon. He was lying on his back, wide awake, sucking on his binky, in the middle of the dark street, still wearing his hat, boots and his smile." - Dana Berry, "Motherhood and Other Disasters: Halloween" "Adelaide Henrietta Hodgekiss was a retired music teacher in her late 60s who had been conscripted to teach history to a class of ten-year-old boys in 1943, when I was ten years old. . . Derek told us in secret and on pain of death that Hodgekiss's real name was Henrietta Hitler." - Ronald Kushner, "An Unusual Wartime Education" "My mother sold her gold wedding ring before leaving Romania, providing a little more money for our life in the new country. Leaving the ship and heading for shore was tearful as well as exciting. We had no idea what to expect." - Maria McCarthy, "The Journey" "Sometimes in sunny weather when there is no wind, I gaze at the airplanes in the sky and remember how it felt to see the earth from the air." - Char Tritt, "I'd Rather be Flying" "None of the bodies was ever found, only my dad's black lunch pail and a cap. He was thirty-eight years old." - Terrie Oldham, "One Dark Day" "The test confirmed the worst . . . There were so many polio cases in the small Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital that beds filled the hallways." - Glennis McNeal, "Western States of Mind: When Mineral Water Fails"
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Add this copy of Footsteps: Tales From Times Past to cart. $14.48, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by Inkwater Press.
