tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post3624844752785477194..comments2024-03-18T21:16:14.441-04:00Comments on Jungle Red Writers: Letters From HomeJungle Red Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16646429819267618412noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-29158364092594848372011-09-26T11:07:25.546-04:002011-09-26T11:07:25.546-04:00Nobody here has read Dana Stabenow's fabulous ...Nobody here has read Dana Stabenow's fabulous novel that uses the episode of Hammett in Alaska? Though Not Dead is described here: <br />http://www.stabenow.com/novels/kate-shugak/though-not-dead<br /><br />And, you have to remember too that Hammett had tuberculosis most of his life. Alaska isn't friendly for people with lung disease.Laurie Kinghttp://www.laurierking.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-32187405231544952622011-09-22T16:38:53.091-04:002011-09-22T16:38:53.091-04:00Ro, what a treasure! I love letters. I've us...Ro, what a treasure! I love letters. I've used them as research for the back stories in a good many books. I lament the fact that we no longer write them. My mother wrote me every week when I was living in England and Scotland in the late seventies . . . I wonder where those letters are.<br /><br />One more reason to sort out my house.Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11519514786198185277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-37995076714721898762011-09-22T13:03:51.383-04:002011-09-22T13:03:51.383-04:00Ah, old letters. Your post got me thinking about l...Ah, old letters. Your post got me thinking about letter-writing and how much I miss it. I used to LOVE receiving actual paper with actual pen-marked thoughts on them. And I loved writing them too...So, how will the kinds of details and memories that you found in your aunt's letters be found three generations from now--or will they? I imagine someone saying, "I found an old CD-ROM with my great-aunt's emails on them, but I can't read them. Too bad the technology has changed since then."Lisa Alberhttp://lisaalber.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-76033852172247282922011-09-22T12:39:08.006-04:002011-09-22T12:39:08.006-04:00You've made me think of the little file cabine...You've made me think of the little file cabinet in a closet in my parents' office with all kinds of correspondence that related to their writing. Of course no one who was there paid any attention to what anyone else might have wanted to hold onto when they died so it's all lost. Damn.Hallie Ephronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04759439029582054503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-19680208646832608972011-09-22T10:30:24.711-04:002011-09-22T10:30:24.711-04:00Holy cow, that SJ gets around - I'm still cons...Holy cow, that SJ gets around - I'm still considering going to Mongolia with her next summer. <br /><br />Alas Aunt Mary passed away last November but she kept every scrap of paper, letter and telephone bill from the last 70 years so we just found these. Wasn't Carolyn Hart nominated for a Pulitzer for a book called Letters from Home? It would be mighty presumputous of me to attempt something even remotely similar.<br /><br />Brenda, it was definitely like stepping into another world. It was very moving when she described V-J Day and the long months of waiting before all of her brothers (there were 7) came home. Apparently there was a point system and the Seventy Point men came home faster than the Sixty Point Men. Hmmm maybe that's the book...Rosemary Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08033747422699443024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-55177207965267097142011-09-22T10:16:35.237-04:002011-09-22T10:16:35.237-04:00Lovely post, Ro.
Reading someone else's let...Lovely post, Ro. <br /><br />Reading someone else's letters - particularly from their youth - transports you to their world, doesn't it? <br /><br />My mother, who turned 90 this week, has several scrapbooks filled with letters from my father when he was fighting across Europe in WWII, a member of the First Infantry Division. <br /><br />Nearly 70 years later, the ink remains readable and the delicate air-mail paper is still intact. I've been allowed a few glimpses, but never given permission to read them start to finish. I'm sure that won't happen in her lifetime, Too private.<br /><br />She was 22 or 23, he was a couple of years older. They'd been married only four months when he shipped overseas. Because she's hung on to the letters I hope one day to step into the world they inhabited at that time. <br /><br />BrendaBrenda Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14161539130987122737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-76546979054029046142011-09-22T10:02:32.129-04:002011-09-22T10:02:32.129-04:00Fabulous story Ro! Does your aunt remember writing...Fabulous story Ro! Does your aunt remember writing this?<br /><br />I think SJ Rozan may have gone to the Aleutian Islands as part of the authors to the bush program sponsored by Sisters in crime a few years ago. We should get her recollection!Lucy Burdettehttp://www.lucyburdette.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-14284608375416904312011-09-22T09:17:27.818-04:002011-09-22T09:17:27.818-04:00Wonderful story, Rosemary. Two tangential thoughts...Wonderful story, Rosemary. Two tangential thoughts:<br />-I think anyone who went to school at all in those days was better educated, better read, better at writing than many students today. Floating around the Internet somewhere is the test that students needed to pass to graduate from the 8th grade 100 years ago. Very difficult!<br />-My adult sons (in their twenties) blessedly have embraced the value of letters written in ink by hand on real paper. You can bet I'm saving every single one, especially now that they are both living far from home.<br /><br />EdithEdith Maxwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388006370860482509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-78130802539461347392011-09-22T09:17:02.344-04:002011-09-22T09:17:02.344-04:00Amazing, Ro! It really does sound like a book for ...Amazing, Ro! It really does sound like a book for you...and it does remind us of all the things past--that were just as real for them as today is for us--that we'll never know about.<br /><br />Very poignant.Hank Phillippi Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420701704169428286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-38527643899225461302011-09-22T09:06:45.960-04:002011-09-22T09:06:45.960-04:00What a treasure, Rhys! And just one more piece of ...What a treasure, Rhys! And just one more piece of evidence to add to the question, "What are we going to leave behind for our children and grandchildren to read?" Somehow, I don't think our nieces will be going through lovingly preserved emails sixty years from now...Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09553268569509053159noreply@blogger.com