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These books emerged from two
tragic events in the history of the United States.
The Great Depression and the Korean War.
In Seabury Place: A Bronx
Memoir, a book replete with humor, Daniel Wolfe
introduces us to a
juvenile growing up during the Great Depression. The book
ends with Dan Wolfe being drafted.
Cold Ground's Been My Bed: A
Korean War Memoir
He started to study
memoir writing at Duke University in Raleigh, NC and then
at The Hudson Valley Writers Center in Sleepy
Hollow, NY. The title of the
book, comes from his first bunker buddy, Jesse. Wolfe asked him,
"Where do we
sleep?" Jesse pointed to the damp ground in the bunker and
then sung this blue's song:
"The rocks have been my pillow,
The cold's ground's been my bed,
The stars have been my blanket and the blue sky's
been my spread."
