Have you ever wondered how it all came about, the skyscrapers, the boxes and cans and jars with labels of some special brand or someone's name? It came about, so often, out of the holds of big ships, where men and their families, or men and women alone, or here and there a courageous youngster, wide-eyed and frightened were discarded like refuse on the docks of this country. And how did they produce the boxes, build the hospitals, the colleges, the churches, make the cars, envision supermarkets and department stores, produce the technology that reaches out to others all over the world and even walk the moon? Here's how they did it and here's what sometimes becomes of those who followed.
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Antonia Phillips Rabb has lived her story. The history before her was taken from the lips of her father Jacob Rabinovitz. Writing from the time she learned to read, Ms. Rabb has produced nine books of poetry and this family saga/biographical novel. She attended Mt. Holyoke College and was a protege of Professor John Holmes of Tufts University. A recipient of several grants, she has taught at The Boston Aid to the Blind, community centers and served as a consultant teacher to many Boston schools. She has given seminars at Learning in Retirement at Harvard, The Berkshire School, Pine Manor Junior College, Hebron Academy, Mt. Ida Junior College and Pine Crest School in Florida where she now resides. At present she facilitates classes in creative writing for all adult ages in libraries, learning centers and private communities in the area. She is a mother of six, grandmother of seventeen.
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