Description
80-year-old Dolores Kromka, a New Jersey resident for 60 years, recalls her early years spent in rural Wisconsin as a farm girl whose daily life and the people who filled it were left behind when she took the train from Mosinee, and was transported to a larger and very different world. It is a fond memoir of the people who were a part of her earliest life, with descriptions of the local community, family, friends, neighbors and their traditions. But rural farm life was hard and barren, devoid of the things Dolores longed for and finally did experience when choosing to leave home upon high school graduation. She has since experienced life in a unique small Morris County town filled with interesting people, and positioned to enable her to travel across this nation and around the world. The book includes photos of people and artifacts, as well as the handwritten 24-page letter from an uncle recounting his WWII experiences.