| Description |
iv, 399 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
"Michael Keith is the last remaining member of his Germanic family who came from the old country to America in the mid-18th century. In 1821, near the end of his full life, he dictates to his son an in-depth journal filled to the brim with dry humor. He relates the family's poverty-filled life in a rural setting of the old country, their death-defying ocean voyage to America, and a life-saving friendship they found in Philadelphia. Michael recalls the making of a home from an un-cleared wilderness of the Pennsylvania frontier and about the marrying, dying, and war years that followed. Love, humor, joy, sadness, grief, and a deep-rooted religious faith are all intertwined in Michael's intriguing story of a family whose success in America hung in a delicate balance of seemingly endless challenges and hard-fought successes. In short, it is a riveting story that breathes the richness and full-color of life into the black-and-white genealogical facts of this real-life Pennsylvania Dutch family."--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Pennsylvania Dutch -- Fiction.
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.
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Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
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Keith family -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781602646889 |
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1602646880 |
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9781602646872 (pbk.) |
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1602646872 (pbk.) |
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