Apple Dumpling: Diary of My Great Trip West in a Trotwood Trailer, 1937-38

ISBN-13: 9780692728116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 252 str.

Adella Brunk Kanagy; Ruth Adella Kanagy

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Diary of my great trip "West" from June 1937 to August 1938. At the time we left I was fourteen, Mabel ten, Milton seventeen, Mama fifty-one, Papa forty-nine, and Ivan twenty-one. So begins Adella's diary of her family's fourteen-month adventure from northern Indiana to southern California and back in a Trotwood trailer nicknamed, "Apple Dumpling." On the way, they see presidential faces being carved at Mt. Rushmore, meet grizzly bears at Yellowstone, and gaze up in awe at giant Sequoias. Adella spends her sophomore year at Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, where she must adjust to a different climate and culture. At the end of the school year, the family travels back home, visiting canyons and monuments along the way. "Apple Dumpling" is a delightfully intimate view of life in the 1930's, with humor and insight.