Eileen Schnabel's Blog: July Newsletter, page 2
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March 11, 2023
PLAYING HISTORY
JANE WESTAs a kid, I used to love ‘playing history.’ For Christmas one year, I got the Jane West doll along with her Palomino horse, Thunderbolt. When I got the wagon for my birthday, I was in heaven. Then my brother and cousins got Johnny West dolls (the boys called them action figures 
) and we added more horses and accessories from saddle bags to campfire frying pans. I spent HOURS creating an imaginary world, a life before cars, computers, and phones.
Fast forward a few decades and I still love history. I still love imaging life long ago and creating stories for the people who lived in those times. I hope you enjoy Kep’s newest adventure: Kep Westguard Rebel Spy. It is available for pre-order on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/KEP-WESTGUARD-REBEL-Eileen-Schnabel-ebook/dp/B0BSNZPVKJ and will be released April 18, 2023.
January 30, 2023
GRANDPA AND WHY I WRITE ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY
I’m often asked why I write about the American Revolution. A big part of the reason goes back to my grandpa. Grandpa served in the South Pacific during World War II. He was 26-years-old, married, a father to three toddler-aged girls and a welder by trade when he entered the navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Years later, I spent many hours at his dining room table listening to stories about this time in his life. It was crazy hard for him to be away from his young family, to wonder if he’d ever return home. He learned to play one mean game of checkers during long hours aboard his ship. Side note: I never beat him in over a hundred games, so we finally switched to cribbage. For one of my birthdays, he carved a cribbage board for me, which I treasure.
Through hearing about those war years, the incredible heat in the engine room where he was assigned, the fear and dedication of those sailors, I learned to have enormous respect for the sacrifices that were made to give me the freedom I enjoy as an American. I hope to never take that for granted and to share some of America’s history with future generations, as my grandpa shared history with me.
