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Walking the Rails: My Childhood in Whitehall
Walking the Rails: My Childhood in Whitehall
Walking the Rails: My Childhood in Whitehall
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For Ethel Erickson Radmer, a child of the 1930s, life in Wisconsin was an adventure filled with imagination, fun, and curiosity. Hers was a simple life, without computers and cell phones. It was a time when people in a small town dropped in on each other to visit and paid their bills in person. It was a time when folks honored courtesy and neighborly affection. If you knew someone was in the hospital, you brought them flowersfrom your own garden.

Ethel grew up in a railroad town that bustled with supplies and troops for World War II. To a small girl from a small town, a Green Bay & Western Railroad passenger car represented nothing short of freedom. But Ethel found joy in the simple thingsa playground for roller skating a golf course made just for picnics and sled-ding (and swinging clubs) nearby farmland and barns to explore and a meandering river to quiet her heart.

It was a simpler time, but Ethel Erickson Radmer was no simple girl.

Walking the Rails is everything a good memoir should begenerously detailed, disarmingly frank, and emotionally moving. With wit, irony, and generosity of spirit, Ethel Radmer has woven a heartwarming and lush tapestry of growing up in a loving American family during the difficult days of the Great Depression, World War II, and its aftermath.
Dave Wood, past vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle, former book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and memoirist

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateApr 11, 2012
ISBN9781475910094
Walking the Rails: My Childhood in Whitehall
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Ethel Erickson Radmer

Ethel Erickson Radmer is the author of My Odyssey with Two Uncommon Boys: A Trip to the Western States; Conversations with Carl: My Journey Through Grief; and The Cheshire Cat Syndrome: My Adventures with Arthritis. She currently lives in North Carolina.

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