The author was born 17 May, 1925, in Bergland, MI, UP. He had five older sisters, and one brother. After age six, he was a farm boy in Ottawa National Forest Porcupine Mountains, with wood heat, light by kerosene, and water from the barn hand pump. Tools: pencil, fork, spoon, scissors, shovel, pitchfork, plow, hoe, axe, crosscut saw, .22 rifle. Skills: write, read, eat, darn, harness/drive, find/milk, deliver with sled-wagon, sing hymns/operetta, basketball, football; hunt/trap, learn. Adulthood: WW II Marine, AB, MA, PhD, Professor of English (Ret); Wed twice, four boys, USMC (Ret).
Voices from Stick & Stones
by George Nilsen
Voices from Stick & Stones
by George Nilsen
Published Sep 10, 2018
333 Pages
Genre: FICTION / Historical / General
Book Details
The Song & its Singer
Retired USMC officer professor returns to hometown to research Viking ancestry. Though supported by the local pastor, Christian resentment of his self-fashioned Belief flares up in entrapment in a burning barn by elder stepbrother, a charge of murder in the second degree by the ‘Princess’ postmistress; black-balling and dynamite by a nearby pastor, the retiree begins his research only to find the ‘Princess’ persistent in a womanly fashion for a different end for which he fears he is unfit.