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    Pawns: The Farm, Nebish, Minnesota, 1950s
    Herman: 1940s Lonely Hearts Search
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    Chickenhouse Chronicles Series

    By Wendell Affield

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    About this series

    Caught between a mentally ill mother and a stepfather with undiagnosed PTSD, Author Wendell Affield's childhood was marked by family dysfunction. In this memoir, which includes nearly 100 illustrations, he recounts growing up on an isolated farm in northern Minnesota in the 1950s.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhispering Petals Press, LLC
    Release dateNov 15, 2017
    Pawns: The Farm, Nebish, Minnesota, 1950s
    Herman: 1940s Lonely Hearts Search

    Titles in the series (2)

    • Herman: 1940s Lonely Hearts Search
      Herman: 1940s Lonely Hearts Search

      Herman: 1940s Lonely Hearts Search

      Wendell Affield
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      Great for research! This biographical book features resource material for anyone seeking to understand the plight of women in the 1940s.   The author highlights the life of his stepfather, Herman, a shy WWII veteran who responds to the personal ad of a New York pianist with four children. In 1949, Barbara

      Great for research! This biographical book features resource material for anyone seeking to understand the plight of women in the 1940s.   The author highlights the life of his stepfather, Herman, a shy WWII veteran who responds to the personal ad of a New York pianist with four children. In 1949, Barbara

    • Pawns: The Farm, Nebish, Minnesota, 1950s
      Pawns: The Farm, Nebish, Minnesota, 1950s

      Pawns: The Farm, Nebish, Minnesota, 1950s

      Wendell Affield
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      Caught between a mentally ill mother and a stepfather with undiagnosed PTSD, Author Wendell Affield's childhood was marked by family dysfunction. In this memoir, which includes nearly 100 illustrations, he recounts growing up on an isolated farm in northern Minnesota in the 1950s.

      Caught between a mentally ill mother and a stepfather with undiagnosed PTSD, Author Wendell Affield's childhood was marked by family dysfunction. In this memoir, which includes nearly 100 illustrations, he recounts growing up on an isolated farm in northern Minnesota in the 1950s.

    Author

    Wendell Affield

    It’s one thing to write a book; it’s another to live it. Wendell Affield never knew who his father was. His childhood was punctuated by a volatile mother and stepfather. At sixteen he left home, rode the rails out west, and lived in hobo camps. At seventeen he enlisted in the navy. At twenty, he was wounded in an ambush while driving a river patrol boat in Vietnam and medevac'd home. He spent thirty years working in the food industry.Affield retired in 2001 and knew he had stories to tell. He spent several years attending Bemidji State University (BSU), learning how to tell a story. His Vietnam “memory stories” evolved into a memoir, "Muddy Jungle Rivers." The memoir has opened surprising new paths. Today he speaks to groups about PTSD. Autumn 2016 he taught a writing workshop to veterans. Spring 2017 he’ll speak to students who are using his memoir in a history class, at Indiana University, South Bend.Affield’s mother, Barbara, lived an unusual life. He began a series of interviews with her, hoping to tell her story, never suspecting that the key to it lay decomposing in an old building seventy feet from where they sat visiting in the old farmhouse. After she died in 2010, Affield and his sister discovered and salvaged their family history, dating back to 1822. Over the past six years, he has spent countless hours studying, scanning, and transcribing the documents he discovered locked in the Chickenhouse on his childhood homestead.Affield lives with his wife, Patti, in a log cabin overlooking a small lake in northern Minnesota, where they enjoy feeding birds. They have three children and several grandchildren. Sadly, their son, Jeff, died in 2015. Affield continues to write, study writing, and psychology. His greatest fear: that he dies before all the stories are told.

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