“The book, a collection of their family’s letters, gives a first-hand account of the gumption, hardships, joys, tragedies, resilience and intimate day-to-day details of American frontier life in the 19th and 20th centuries. It chronicles the Phillips family’s history through photographs and letters written between 1842 to 1962. Telling the story of their migration from Vermont to California’s gold fields, their aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, cousins and in-laws painted a rich and detailed portrait of pioneer life.
The book’s title comes from a sentence written in 1869 by Jane Waterman, Mary K. Sonntag’s great-grandmother’s half-sister: ‘I never expect to see you again in time. Give my love to your dear children. How bad they will feel to have you go to Kansas and leave them. Dear sister, write if you live to get there.'”
Mary Jo Sontagg will be at Classics Lines Bookstore in Squirrel Hill at 7 pm this Thursday, Nov. 5th.
Join us this Thursday (Nov 5) at 7:00 to meet Mary Jo Sonntag, author of Write if You Live to Get There. Write, If…
Posted by Classic Lines on Sunday, November 1, 2015