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Bookshop Christy Award winner Austin (
If I Were You) shines in this excellent tale of three women who struggle to survive WWII in the Netherlands. Lena de Vries and her two young daughters are keeping the family farm going while her husband and son are away at war. In addition to protecting her family, she also cares for the refugees she s hiding from the Nazis. Lena s oldest daughter, Ans, moved to Leiden shortly before the war, eager to leave behind her rural life and her faith. After the fighting begins, she joins the Resistance, putting her on the opposing side of her boyfriend, Erikâa Dutch police officer now working for the Nazisâand leading her to discover she needs her faith more than ever. Miriam Jacobs is a Jewish woman on the run from the Nazis. As a young wife and mother, she leaves everyone she knows behind in hopes of keeping her baby alive. As the three women work to evade and break the Nazi grip on the Netherlands, Austin skillfully portrays the dan
Now here’s Sheridan Media’s look back in time, to 100 years ago, by reporter Pat Blair as published in the Sheridan Enterprise newspaper on March 6, 1921.
Miss Emma Mankameyer and Harold Johnson, both of Sheridan, narrowly escaped death by drowning, and their companions suffered exposure from water and mud when the automobile in which they were riding skidded and overturned into the Big Goose Creek last night. The incident happened just south of the bridge on the Big Horn cement road three miles south of Sheridan.
Miss Miriam Jacobs entertained a group of her high school friends at her home on Tschirgi street last night in honor of her 17th birth anniversary.