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The Soft Wind Whispers
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Category:
Biography
Publisher: infinity publishing
ISBN-10: 0741445688
Pages: 276
Copyright: April, 2008
‘The Soft Wind Whispers’, is the story of the other George and Martha, as they journey through the Civil War, WWI, the flu epidemic, prohibition and the establishment and loss of their beloved farm, “The Maples”.
The Soft Wind Whispers is told through diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, poetry and letters dating back to the late 1800’s. Martha’s father, relentlessly anti-slavery, is dragged away by the Home Guard during the Civil War. He defies orders and is to be shot, but is saved at the last moment. Many in George’s Indiana farm family die of dysentery, and both families migrate to the unsettled Iowa prairie in the 1860’s. We journey with these families through WW I, the flu epidemic, prohibition and the establishment and loss of their beloved farm, “The Maples”.
Excerpt
June 11, 1937. "It has been running in my mind for a long time that world wars were getting out of date. For one thing, they are getting too destructive, and for another, people are getting wiser. Every country is getting so well prepared for it. That alone may have a tendency toward peace." George Washington Hauser
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