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Four emotional diaries illuminate trips taken by three family members during the Prosperity Decade of the 1920s; then came the Depression. The Mother travels thousands of miles by rented train within the United States. Yellowstone, she write, brought "wonderment." A Swarthmore coed celebrates her graduation with a Grand Tour of London, Paris, Switzerland, and Italy.
A Successful engineer Father visits Berlin, Brussels, and Paris; then takes his first airplane flight across the English Channel. Once the depression has taken over, the engineer will drive his wife in a Chandler auto from Rydal, PA. to Ozona, Texas and to Maimi Beach, Florida, seeking a new source of income.
The editor who put this book together was the youngest member of the diary writing family. Now an ages research historian, his memory brings unity and anecdotes to the book, which reveals Life as it was lived by a family long, long, ago.
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Vaughn Davis Bornet. Long retired as CDR, USNR, he was 98 when he began work on this very personal book project. His Ph. D. in History is from Stanford University (1951), he has two degrees from Emory University, and has a graduate year at University of Georgia, Athens. Long a professor and division chairman, he wrote serious books on social welfare, trade unions, political parties, and presidents Hoover and Johnson, while helping scholars by editing their unfinished book projects. Among his employers were foundations, Commonwealth Club of California, Encyclopaedia Britannica, RAND, and Southern Oregon College. He has been in the Marquis Who's Who in America volumes for over half a century. He has been termed "Distinguished" in national awards from the American Heart Association, the Freedom Foundation, and a university. Author of innumerable articles, he writes often for History News Network of George Mason University, and supports a very large website, clioistics.com, which offers hundreds of pages of Bornet writings.
