WWII Correspondence between Albert B. Southwick and Maple Hill Farm: February to June 1942 (WWII Letters from Albert B. Southwick to Maple Hill Farm: 1942-1945) - Softcover

Southwick, Albert B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1494224798 ISBN 13: 9781494224790

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

This collection of letters between WWII Navy Pilot Albert B. Southwick and his family back at Maple Hill Farm in Leicester, Massachusetts spans February to June, 1942. Young Albert details his experiences first at the Naval Training Station in Newport, Rhode Island, then at the Naval Air Base Station Service School in Jacksonville, Florida. The entire collection, some of it written in rhyming verse by Albert's father Nathan Marshall Southwick, recalls a bygone era when written correspondence was a carefully crafted art form. Footnotes added by Albert's daughter Martha Jean Southwick illuminate many of the references. This revised first volume of his WWII letters includes 45 images. Font size: 14 points.

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About the Author:

Albert B. Southwick, the seventh of nine children, was born in 1920 and grew up in Leicester, Massachusetts, on the farm that had been in his family for generations. He attended Mannville School, a one-room wooden building where a single teacher taught all eight grades. He went on to Leicester High School, Clark University in Worcester, four years in the United States Navy during World War II, back to Clark for his M.A. degree, and on to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he did a year of graduate work in U.S. history. From 1950-1952, he was a historian (civilian) for the U.S. Seventh Army, based in Stuttgart, Germany. On his return from Germany, he worked briefly as a reporter for the Providence Journal before coming to the Worcester Telegram and Evening Gazette in 1952 as an editorial writer. He was chief editorial writer for the newspapers from 1968 to his retirement in 1986. In 1953 Albert and Shirley Southwick (1920-1998) built their house on Marshall Street on land probably owned by William Earle in the 1720s. Much of the back land was made into one of the first disc golf courses in the area by Jason Southwick in the 1990s. He built his house on the south end. Albert B. Southwick has written eight books and two librettos: The Worcester Club at 100 Years, The Johnson Family of Hyde Park & Sag Harbor, Once-Told Tales of Worcester County, More Once-Told Tales of Worcester County, 150 Years of Worcester: 1848-1998, Down on the Farm Volume I, WWII Correspondence between Albert B. Southwick and Maple Hill Farm: February to June 1942, Albert B. Southwick - Selected Writings Volume I, Midas and The Peaceable Kingdom, which was translated into German and performed in Vienna, Austria, in English in the Anglican Church as well as in German in the Vienna Konzerthaus.  For many years, he has specialized in the history of Worcester, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1494224798
• ISBN 13: 9781494224790
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180
• Editor: Southwick Martha Jean