A child of the depression and self-proclaimed vagabond, Leona Hauck didn’t live with her parents past the age of 14, and instead spent much of her youth among an ever-changing cast of characters and adoptive families.
This charming account of her life experiences, the people she encountered, and the fascinating family history she discovered along the way, is told with magnanimity and unflinching candor. And her straightforward approach, combined with her keen powers of observation, offers us a glimpse into a time and place nearly forgotten, and affords us the opportunity to see how things were, from the perspective of a woman who has lived in South-western Ontario for more than ninety years.
“Since I was a vagabond and lived with all these various people, I had these different adoptive families. I was pretty well treated as a member of the family in most of them—except, of course, those Browns, with their gobbling turkey in the basement—but especially so with the Pehlkes, because I stayed with them for about three years. And I even moved with them to a different house. So I have to tell you about them.”
—From Almost Home
This charming account of her life experiences, the people she encountered, and the fascinating family history she discovered along the way, is told with magnanimity and unflinching candor. And her straightforward approach, combined with her keen powers of observation, offers us a glimpse into a time and place nearly forgotten, and affords us the opportunity to see how things were, from the perspective of a woman who has lived in South-western Ontario for more than ninety years.
“Since I was a vagabond and lived with all these various people, I had these different adoptive families. I was pretty well treated as a member of the family in most of them—except, of course, those Browns, with their gobbling turkey in the basement—but especially so with the Pehlkes, because I stayed with them for about three years. And I even moved with them to a different house. So I have to tell you about them.”
—From Almost Home
