Hardback
Retail Price: $28.95
Of the blooms that filled the window boxes of each sod house, “it seemed that in some way they understood that love was trying to soften the hardships and add a little beauty.”
As a little girl in 1886, Adda Blanche (Doughty) Brookhart moved with her family from Missouri to homestead “the west,” where land awaited those who claimed it. Adda writes these memories of her childhood long after her own seven children were grown and after a career as a school teacher, a business partner, and a public official. She tenderly relates the struggles her own family faced and those shared by the pioneers who came to settle the eastern plains of Colorado. She wanted her ancestors to have “…some little idea of the things as they were during my life span.” Her oldest son, Lester, wrote his own story that weaves Adda’s story with his own. He describes being born and raised at the turn-of-the twentieth century, including his experiences during WWI, WWII, living through the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, and more.
Hardback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Casebound, 125 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Oct 26, 2022)
ISBN10: 1977256910
ISBN13: 9781977256911
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Don Brookhart has degrees in both psychology and art. In this book, he shares the stories told by two of his relatives, his grandmother, Adda, and his uncle, Lester. Throughout his life, Don has relished collecting and sharing stories of his ancestors. He is both proud and fascinated by the roles many of them have played in history. In the US Navy, Don was an air and water rescue specialist requiring him to travel to far-flung places such as Antarctica (as part of Operation Deep Freeze), Tahiti, New Zealand and beyond. After leaving the Navy, he worked in business as a visionary before starting his own business as a builder and construction superintendent. Since retiring, he has acted as a the emergency repairman and ad hoc hardware store for those in the small mountain community where he lives in Colorado with his wife and an ever-changing number of dogs and cats. He can often be found sitting in a dilapidated antique chair on his front porch enjoying a good cigar. 
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