Isn't it exciting to know this is possible for everyВ free personВ who takes the initiative to follow dreams of a better life? It's the same theme IВ find in my family history, with my wonderful parents rising from poverty to make a better life for their children, whose own parents made sacrifices for them. One of the viewpoint families for Follett's take on the twentieth century happens to be the ancestors of a coal miner from Wales, whoseВ ancestors rise above the far more rigid class system of Europe to become war heroes and members of Parliament.

Recently, I read the first two installments of Ken Follett's excellent Century Trilogy, the third volume of which should be coming out within days.

Traveling with Julie as she tenaciously follows her father's roots over the years is not that different from following a novel wherever it leads. Edna ended up being Grandma Edde to our children. George started dating a statuesque blonde named Edna, who eventually decided she liked his brother better. Later in the 1950s, John and George (not Lennon and Harrison) both moved to Los Angeles. George also went to war, and both brothers are heroes recognized on the Rock Springs WWII Memorial. His boss fired youngВ George in haste,В but whenВ the store'sВ business dropped precipitously,В heВ re-hired the clever 'rainmaker.' That enterprise, however,В gotВ GeorgeВ in a bit of heat with his boss, who initially missedВ how thisВ win-win situationВ had boosted tire salesВ by making Depression-era townspeople without cash into barter buyers whose repaired castoffs sold for enough cash to pay for the tiresВ plus an extra profit for George. At 18 years old, George made more money with this scheme than his dadВ earned that same year as a seasoned union coal miner with decades of experience. George repaired and polished the broken household goods and sold in front of the tire store in a sort of small parking lot swap meet. Often, the goods he received were broken and in need of cleaning. George parlayed that self-created jobВ into a recycled yard sale, trading thoseВ recappedВ tires that wouldВ have never been produced without his initiative to townspeople who would have never had the money to buy the tires if he hadn't accepted barter as an alternative to cash. The machines ran while George slept in the shop. HeВ talked himself into a job, convincingВ a tire shop owner to let himВ retread tires during graveyardВ hours when his boss's shopВ hadВ formerly been closed. Uncle George was more of an entrepreneur. I won't say it seems to be a boomtown destined to lure Millennial hipsters searching for flashback perfection, but it's not nearly as bad as its reputation.

Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, it still had a tarnished image, but our recent visit revealed a charming downtown areaВ with old buildings fronted by famous names from the past among itsВ working class community that alsoВ includes suburban sprawl and seedy areas. The Megas family home in Rock Springs still seems to be in great condition,В and assuming it'sВ the original structure, I'd guess it was aВ far more comfortable place to raise his three childrenВ than theВ primitive dwellingВ in remote Madaro, Crete, where he was one of elevenВ children (click one of the hotlinks above for photos) raised in a two room rock house with neither plumbing nor electricity.ДЄs Julie's aunt, author Myrtle Cordon, could tell you, Rock Springs has an interesting and frequently off-color history,В and whenВ I firstВ heard aboutВ the mining townВ when I was stationed at F.E.

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