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    Beyond the Floathouse: Gunhild’s Granddaughter: The Floathouse Series, #2
    Beyond the Floathouse: Lifelong Learning with Friends and Family: The Floathouse Series, #3
    from FJORD to FLOATHOUSE: The Floathouse Series, #1
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    The Floathouse Series

    By Myrtle Siebert and Myrtle Siebert

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    About this series

    Beyond the Floathouse, Lifelong Learning with friends and family is the sequel to Gunhild's Granddaughter. In this book a very shy, ordinary girl, who grew up enveloped by an insular loving family and surrounded by a world of water, finds education is a significant key to a multi-faceted career. From teaching to entrepreneurship to home building to volunteering, her path continues with a focus on learning new things. She travels widely with family and friends, finding ways to raise her own children with an awareness of important life lessons that were taught to her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMyrtle Siebert
    Release dateDec 18, 2015
    Beyond the Floathouse: Gunhild’s Granddaughter: The Floathouse Series, #2
    Beyond the Floathouse: Lifelong Learning with Friends and Family: The Floathouse Series, #3
    from FJORD to FLOATHOUSE: The Floathouse Series, #1

    Titles in the series (3)

    • 1

      from FJORD to FLOATHOUSE: The Floathouse Series, #1
      from FJORD to FLOATHOUSE: The Floathouse Series, #1

      from FJORD to FLOATHOUSE: The Floathouse Series, #1

      Myrtle Siebert
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      from Fjord to Floathouse is the saga of hardy West Coast pioneers, who lived in snug floating homes and were sustained by surrounding sea and forest. Water transportation, written communication, semi-weekly shipments of staple supplies (anything they could not shoot, catch, or pick) were continuing limitations. In short time segments, complete with maps, letters, photographs and recipes, readers are drawn into a rural lifestyle that only few have experienced, or even been aware existed.

      from Fjord to Floathouse is the saga of hardy West Coast pioneers, who lived in snug floating homes and were sustained by surrounding sea and forest. Water transportation, written communication, semi-weekly shipments of staple supplies (anything they could not shoot, catch, or pick) were continuing limitations. In short time segments, complete with maps, letters, photographs and recipes, readers are drawn into a rural lifestyle that only few have experienced, or even been aware existed.

    • 2

      Beyond the Floathouse: Gunhild’s Granddaughter: The Floathouse Series, #2
      Beyond the Floathouse: Gunhild’s Granddaughter: The Floathouse Series, #2

      Beyond the Floathouse: Gunhild’s Granddaughter: The Floathouse Series, #2

      Myrtle Siebert
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      When Myrtle Rae Forberg steps from her father’s boat to the floating dock at Rock Bay, and walks along the board walk to school, she takes her first steps from the water-constrained world in which she has lived since birth to the freedom and independence of a land based world in which she will live the remainder of her life. A nine-year-old granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants, Myrtle’s story moves through bewildering and lonely experiences. First there is an adjustment from homeschooling, taught by her mother in their floathouse kitchen, to a one-room school with eight grades on land, in a truck logging camp.  Then it was off to high school leaving a home with parents, sister and familiar faces to a world of strangers, boarding with a different family each year, being the new kid in a school that involved moving from room to room for each course taught by a different teacher and surrounded by four hundred new classmates. At age 13 she was on her own

      When Myrtle Rae Forberg steps from her father’s boat to the floating dock at Rock Bay, and walks along the board walk to school, she takes her first steps from the water-constrained world in which she has lived since birth to the freedom and independence of a land based world in which she will live the remainder of her life. A nine-year-old granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants, Myrtle’s story moves through bewildering and lonely experiences. First there is an adjustment from homeschooling, taught by her mother in their floathouse kitchen, to a one-room school with eight grades on land, in a truck logging camp.  Then it was off to high school leaving a home with parents, sister and familiar faces to a world of strangers, boarding with a different family each year, being the new kid in a school that involved moving from room to room for each course taught by a different teacher and surrounded by four hundred new classmates. At age 13 she was on her own

    • 3

      Beyond the Floathouse: Lifelong Learning with Friends and Family: The Floathouse Series, #3
      Beyond the Floathouse: Lifelong Learning with Friends and Family: The Floathouse Series, #3

      Beyond the Floathouse: Lifelong Learning with Friends and Family: The Floathouse Series, #3

      Myrtle Siebert
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      Beyond the Floathouse, Lifelong Learning with friends and family is the sequel to Gunhild's Granddaughter. In this book a very shy, ordinary girl, who grew up enveloped by an insular loving family and surrounded by a world of water, finds education is a significant key to a multi-faceted career. From teaching to entrepreneurship to home building to volunteering, her path continues with a focus on learning new things. She travels widely with family and friends, finding ways to raise her own children with an awareness of important life lessons that were taught to her.

      Beyond the Floathouse, Lifelong Learning with friends and family is the sequel to Gunhild's Granddaughter. In this book a very shy, ordinary girl, who grew up enveloped by an insular loving family and surrounded by a world of water, finds education is a significant key to a multi-faceted career. From teaching to entrepreneurship to home building to volunteering, her path continues with a focus on learning new things. She travels widely with family and friends, finding ways to raise her own children with an awareness of important life lessons that were taught to her.

    Author

    Myrtle Siebert

    Myrtle grew up in a floathouse in Port Neville inlet on the remote BC coast. All mail and supplies arrived every two weeks, via the Union Steamships, school was by correspondence, taught by mothers, transportation was by boat. At 9 years of age she entered a one-room school at Rock Bay, and then high school in Campbell River, where she was a boarder/babysitter in different homes each year. She credits a high school principal, a very lucky break, and a 5-year industry scholarship, for opening the way to UBC enrollment, age 16. This logger’s daughter found a career beyond the expected marriage and motherhood. Her home economics degree opened doors to a variety of careers: teacher, business owner, home builder and decorator, and now gardener, mother and grandmother.  Myrtle honed leadership skills through volunteering, begun within CFUW Nanaimo, and currently with CFUW Victoria and CFUW Saanich Peninsula. With so much gained from that one scholarship, we can understand her passion for volunteer fundraising in aid of higher education. In 1992 she joined ITC, now POWERtalk International, and has advanced in her membership up to level 4, Accomplished Communicator.  For more detail and purchasing information, please visit Myrtle's page at http://www.myrtlesiebert.com

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