When Brooklyn’s Exponent writer Monetta Harr interviewed Laurice LaZebnik about her new book Minnie’s Potatoes, she was treated to her great-grandmothers potato soup. The review: Delicious! Minnie’s Potato Soup (Kartoffelsuppe) 1 quart…
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Atomic Sailor, Family, Minnie's Potatoes, Reviews, Strongheart, WritingTHE EXPONENT Review: Minnie’s Potatoes
Nameless Headstone Leads to Novel Your LIFE your STYLE with Monetta Harr TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016 • THE EXPONENT • PAGE B3 It was anger, a deep sense of injustice, that prompted…
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Bart Hawley of JTV interviews Laurice about how she discovered her great-grandmother was a bootlegger and why she based a historical romance novel on her scandalous life. Meet the author in person and hear how…
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My brother read my diary when I was eight, teased me at dinner in front of my parents and that was the end of the diary. It can be a dangerous business…
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My parents died two years ago within a month of one another. I didn’t realize the grounding their physical presence gave me until they were gone. They were my connection to childhood,…
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Lumberjacks were lousy with bedbugs and lice. Common knowledge in the 1880’s was to avoid the hemlock tree. Lumberjacks thought this slow-growing, long-lived evergreen that lent elegance to the landscape brought blood-sucking…
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Consume 9000 calories a day? Lumberjacks did. My grandfather, Wilhelm F. Hartman, cooked meals for Michigan’s lumberjacks from 1886 until well into the 1920’s. When this experienced woodsman made breakfast for his…
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Lumberjacks at one time in Michigan’s history were as common in beer joints as millennial men are today. The ‘jacks of a hundred years ago share a similar language with men today…
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My great grandmother sailed to America on this ship. The North German Lloyd Steamship Line’s Werra I left the Port of Bremen in Germany on October 12, 1882 on her maiden voyage.…
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Last October I walked through Woodmere Cemetery near Standish snapping photos of grave markers, looking for my great grandmother’s stone. I tramped along the track that looped through the grounds and found…