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December 21, 2007
William C. (Cal) Patterson, '55
The Wayfarers: Tales of an American Family, AuthorHouse, 2006
The book: This book chronicles the experiences of individuals known as the Wayfarers, members of an extended family line. Where fragments of information are available, they are used; to the fragments of known information, figments of imagination are blended.
This text spins the experiences of a family progenitor in 900 AD, a Norwegian Viking ashore in Scotland, the Indian wars of the 1600s, the turbulence of the American Revolution and the shock of Civil War battles. Through this text, the reader sails on a whaler in the vast North Pacific in the 1850s, travels on the transcontinental railroad just two months after its completion in 1869, goes aboard steamship to Ireland and England in 1884, an automobile on the Old National Road in 1919, and to Europe again by sea in 1929.
The author: Cal Peterson writes novels during retirement, a dream he had nourished for years. His career before retirement included three years in the United States Air Force, 30 in the telephone industry and 10 as executive director of a private foundation.
Posted by tobiaslw at December 21, 2007 03:46 PM