Paulette Mouchet, author and grand niece of Warren V. Keller, reviews his memoirs, _A Man of the Twentieth Century: Recollections of Warren V. Keller, A Nebraskan_ As told to Rosemarie Keller Skaine and James C. Skaine.
"Born on January 29, 1900, Warren Valorous Keller saw the coming of the automobile, airplane, and travel to the moon and beyond; television, radio, and computers; refrigerators, dishwashers, and microwave ovens; indoor plumbing, heating, and cooling; antibiotics, heart surgery, and the mapping of the human genome. ...
"Warren was born in Mason City, Nebraska, in a one-room sod house that was typical of the times (click here to learn more about sod houses). The floor was dirt and the beds rested on boards so they wouldn’t sink into the ground. In the summer, his mother would sprinkle water over the floor to settle the dust. The water supply was some distance from the house, as was the privy. And he really did use the Sears and Roebuck catalogue in lieu of toilet paper. ...
"Warren died on October 9, 1999, just shy of a century of living. He experienced a remarkable 100 years of our nation’s development and yet, held fast to the simple values that he’d been raised with. ... "
[Complete article at the Hottel-Keller Memorial, Inc. web site.]
Margaret Kohel Evans invites her mother's grandchildren to a delightful visit with their grandmother, sharing charming memories of her across eighteen life themes.
This book has been eight years in the making. It is mostly a jumble of thoughts written down in old spiral notebooks and hidden in the bottom drawer underneath various manuals for software packages and hardware long since turned obsolete.
The experience of a young adult trying to figure out what they want to do for employment or education can be overwhelming. My book will give them insight to what it means to be a carpenter. And the progress unions have made in discrimination.
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