$50 In My Pocket: I'm Off To See America - Brossura

Clark, Lis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1449056652 ISBN 13: 9781449056650

Casa editrice: AuthorHouse, 2009

Riassunto

Take a trip with a Danish immigrant as he arrives in New York in 1916 with his $50.00 needed to pass through Ellis Island. Read Haldor's (Hal's) reaction to seeing the City of New York with the skyscrapers that he had never envisioned. He is amazed at seeing the first Negro people he has ever seen. Travel with him to upstate New York as he tries his hand at farming and then the owner of the farm sees that he is not a farmer. Mr. Ogden likes him enough to get him a better job as a chauffeur for a wealthy politician in the nearby town of Chatham. He is hired to drive a new car called an Owens-Magnetic and he has to travel back and forth to New York both to learn to fix it and eventually drive it. He meets interesting and influential people through the Hon. Louis F. Payn, his boss. He has the opportunity to travel to Bermuda and work at landscaping and tending the horses for Mr. Payn. Read what it was like to live in America in the early 1900's. Experience riding with Hal in a car from New York to Florida - when there were little to no paved roads south of Washington, D.C. Experience his excitement and his loneliness and then pray for him, as he lies near death from contracting Spanish Influenza. This was a deadly flu that was killing thousands of young people around him.

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L'autore:

The writer of all the letters, Haldor Marius Ingemann Baarvig (Hal), was born August 19, 1892 in Slangerup, Denmark. He was the son of Lauritz and Marie Baarvig. Haldor's father was a school teacher in the small town of Kvinderup. He was a good student but very restless. Having been born with a curious mind, his wish was to see the world starting with America. His father was not happy about his wish to go to America as he wanted him to go to Germany to study Engineering. Despite his father's objections, he sailed on June 2, 1916 for New York to start his adventure. He had never been more than 50 miles from his home prior to this undertaking so he was naturally a little bit apprehensive. He was a prolific letter writer and wrote diligently to his family. He wanted them to be able to live his adventure through these letters. He was well aware that they would not be able to come to America. All of the letters were written in Danish. His mother and father kept every letter that was sent to them. Lis Clark is the author who encouraged Hal to translate them into English. This he did, after he retired. More years passed and finally they are in the form that you are seeing and reading today. I have added some additional historical information that I hope you find interesting.

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• Editore: AuthorHouse
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1449056652
• ISBN 13: 9781449056650
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232