Reading Suggestions May 1, 2015

  Searching for Grace Kelly by Michael  Callahan   fast paced, three 20 something girls in New York City in the 1950’s

  a bit of nostalgia  retro read  Dorothy L. Sayers The Five Red Herrings

  I found this book extremely interesting and thought provoking  Village of Secrets, Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

  Joyland by Stephen King   a good read

  Then We Take Berlin by John Lawton   another take on World War II

  Black Star Nairobi by Muhoma Wa Ngugi    I was drawn to this book because the author’s name was familiar and I am familiar with Nairobi having lived there 1966-68 and 1989-84

Family – Butch Asks Biss To Write To Ced – Sept., 1944

"Greatest Generation" Life Lessons

Elizabeth (Biss) Guion Zabel

Sunday Night,

9:39 P.M.

9/24/44.

Dear Caric,

You can thank Butch for this unexpected letter from me. You see he and Marty were having an argument the other day over who was going to wear a pair of slippers that Butch received from one of you boys up there in Alaska about two winters ago and I told Butch that they fit Marty so let him have them as he had no other pair and Butch did have an extra pair. Well Butch let Marty have the slippers but very grudgingly and he told me to go down town and buy him another pair just like those so I had to explain to him that I could not buy another pair like that as they had come from Alaska and they did not sell slippers like that around here so he told me to write to…

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Sørvágsvatn

Locksands Life

Regular readers of this blog may recall that Father in Law spent some of World War II as a radio operator in the Faroe Islands, midway between the Shetlands and Iceland.

Whilst ships and boats could brave the wild seas of the North Atlantic, there was no aerodrome at which to land even the smallest of planes. However, the lake on the island of Vágar near the little village of Sørvágur provided a smooth landing for sea planes.

Doug, my father in law, snapped this photo of a seaplane ‘landing’ on the lake. I have been told the plane is a Catalina flying boat. Seemingly these aircraft were in military service from 1935 until 1980

Doug captioned the photo in the then more prevalent Danish version of the name.

Our visit came in 2005 when we met a chap called Lars Larson who showed us around the former military areas…

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