Mother's Painful Secret

From the Howling Wilderness to the Halls of Congress: the Saga of Five Generations of an American Family

Biography & Memoir, Historical
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Author: Anne Pearce Lehman ISBN: 9781450265027
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: July 20, 2011
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Anne Pearce Lehman
ISBN: 9781450265027
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: July 20, 2011
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

Author and educator Anne Pearce Lehman captures intimate and poignant details of her familys American experience, beginning with the journey of Catherine and James Dillen from Ireland to the New World in the nineteenth century and continuing up to the present. The author traces four generations of her familyrugged and enterprising settlers who carved a living out of the wilderness of northern Maine, followed the continent west in search of riches, and finally arrived in the halls of the nations government in Washington, D.C., in the person of Uncle Ira Hersey, US Congressman. Through her ancestors letters and her own research and conjecture, Lehman paints a vivid portrait of hardship and adventure in early America and learns something about her own past in the processa secret that her own mother, Vera Adelma, took to the grave. Woven into the rich tapestry of Aroostook County in northern Maine, Mothers Painful Secret is an artistically crafted portrayal of nineteenth-century American history and culture.

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Author and educator Anne Pearce Lehman captures intimate and poignant details of her familys American experience, beginning with the journey of Catherine and James Dillen from Ireland to the New World in the nineteenth century and continuing up to the present. The author traces four generations of her familyrugged and enterprising settlers who carved a living out of the wilderness of northern Maine, followed the continent west in search of riches, and finally arrived in the halls of the nations government in Washington, D.C., in the person of Uncle Ira Hersey, US Congressman. Through her ancestors letters and her own research and conjecture, Lehman paints a vivid portrait of hardship and adventure in early America and learns something about her own past in the processa secret that her own mother, Vera Adelma, took to the grave. Woven into the rich tapestry of Aroostook County in northern Maine, Mothers Painful Secret is an artistically crafted portrayal of nineteenth-century American history and culture.

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