Memoir of the Kenoyer family of twelve moving from Iowa to Maine in 1928.
In August 1928, Annie and Henry Kenoyer decided it was in the best interest of their family to move to Maine from their home in Iowa with their ten children, ages one to seventeen. They were a migrant family, having already moved twenty-six times through South Dakota and Iowa, but this 1400-mile trip, in two 1920s vehicles, would prove a challenge to them all.
This is a true story told from the perspective of eight-year-old Ruth Elizabeth Kenoyer, the seventh child,
Excerpt
Page 20 "In getting ready to travel Mom told each of us (ten) that we could take one favorite things or toy with us. We had to clear it with her first, so I asked myself, "What shall I take?"
Then I remembered a little flowered sauce dish that I had earned by learning the books of the Bible in Sunday School . . ."
My Aunt Ruth Kenoyer Polley,ninety years old, told me most of the stories in Eastward Bound. My deceased mother, Alice Kenoyer Probert, the fifth Kenoyer child, had conveyed the remaining stories to me in my youth.
Anyone who likes or remembers the 1920s or large family dynamics will love this heartwarming story.
(Richard M. Feldman) Ever since I was a young boy, the only thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. I wanted to own and work on a real ranch, with cattle and horses. Especially horses.
While I never became a cowboy, considering everything I have done
She never felt safe at home as a young girl, and didn't understand why when she finally escaped she wasn't safe in the big wide world either ...effectively jumping out of the frying pan into the fire!
