Alice Bjorklund Gunness

Nurtured by Nature (eBook, ePUB)

Book Ii

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Alice Gunness writes of farm life, growing up in Minnesota and raising a family in North Dakota. Readers meet her Swedish immigrant parents and Donald Gunness, her husband, in a family of fourth-generation Norwegian immigrants. Alice's stories show us a farm family and a business family working for the betterment of coming generations. Humor, faith, love, and hard work sparkle in Alice's stories. In Nurtured by Nature Book II, readers meet Alice and Donald as children, learn of their married lives, and follow Alice into the present. As a little girl, Alice and her father scramble under a train car, coming home from a movie. Teenaged Alice sits on her skis down a snowy slope. As a mother, she carries bread bowls with her in the car, to let the dough rise and be punched down, while traveling to bring her daughter home from college. Now widowed, Alice Gunness reflects on faith during a pandemic. Alice writes in her own voice, with sensory detail and dialogue. Her writing moves the heart.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: WestBow Press
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781664208766
• Artikelnr.: 69315772

Autorenporträt

Nurtured by Nature Book II follows Alice Gunness' well-received first book of memoir stories published by WestBow Press in 2018.

Alice Bjorklund Gunness, was born at home to Ottilia and John Bjorklund, on July 20, 1933, during the heart of the Great Depression in Richville, Minnesota. Alice was the youngest of seven children. Her parents immigrated from Sweden in 1910 and 1914, and moved to a dairy farm in Ottertail County, Minnesota.

Alice graduated from Perham, Minnesota High School in 1951 and North Dakota State University in 1955 with a degree in home-economics education.

Alice and Donald were married on March 25, 1956. They raised their family on a diversified farm near Abercrombie, North Dakota, in the heart of the Red River Valley of the North.

Anyone interested in contacting Alice may reach her at:

5300 12th Street South

Fargo, ND 58104

dakgunn@rrt,net