.By Eva Mewes
Take a journey through the life of Eva Mewes and meet interesting people. Find your relatives in her word portraits of Bampie, Nanie, Uncle Ernie, and Grandma Carrie. Experience a barn at milking time in “Winter Milking,” and understand the life of a real farmer from unloading hay to Sunday dinner. Go back to growing up on the home front during World War II and being a teenager in the fifties when “cars were power.” Follow her life into the challenges of marriage, the struggles of a first apartment, and the desire for a dream home. Identify with her poignant feelings at the birth of her child in “I Fell for You, Babe.” Receive Eva’s perspective on getting older and dealing with parents as they age.
This is a book of writings that beautifully express the life experiences of Eva and, perhaps, of you.
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Contents Part 1 Where I Am From Where I Am From Great-Aunt Mary Nanie Cooking Bampie Grandma Carrie American Hero Minnie The Heart Place Part 2 My Dad Was a Real Farmer Disparate Marriage Farm Kitchen in Three Parts Winter Milking Last Load In My Dad Was a Real Farmer World War II Summer of ’44 Song of the Fifties Friday Night Fashion Last Dance Yearning Betrayal Part 3 It Might Have Been A Love Story Let Summer Be My Love River on a Summer Evening Lovers As Aztecs It Might Have Been First Apartment It Has Always Looked Half-Furnished Dream House I Fell for You, Babe The Library at Kenosha Accepting Cash or Credit Cards Good and Better We Carry It All Part 4 Who Folded This Map, Anyway? From My Window Unspoken, But Heard Life in a Drawer Midnight in the Temperate Zone The Woman Who Lost Things Who Folded This Map, Anyway? Get a Perm My Mother’s Eyes The Woman Who Loved a Horse The Bone Singer Summer of ’06 The Older I Get, the More Things Change Selective Memory Woman on the Edge of Age Writing Is…
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