You're Not From Around Here, Are You? Reminiscences by Helga Stipa Madland

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Pump Up Your Book is proud to be representing Helga Stipa Madland, author of the memoir, YOU'RE NOT FROM AROUND HERE, ARE YOU? REMINISCENCES, as she tours the blogosphere March 2 - 27!

I start with when I was born, then there was a World War, and then I went to Norman.—Klodnitz, in Upper Silesia, now a part of Poland, was my birth place; when everything collapsed in 1945 at the end of WWII, my family and I became refugees. We trekked across Germany, to the west, and eventually settled in a small village and then another one. Next was Canada, then the United States, Missouri; eventually we settled in Idaho, where my Father, who was a forester, found a job. I did not stop there! I was married and continued my merry journey, California, back to three different cities in Idaho, and later Seattle, where I earned a PhD. My children were grown by then, I was alone and ready to find a position. That’s when I ended up at the University of Oklahoma in 1981, and have been here ever since

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