The stories of Betsy Connor Bowen

Kenneth Gorrell found  the manuscript of this book (by UPI reporter Henry Gorrell, his first cousin twice removed) in an attic. He wouldn’t have, had the two sides of his family not been disinherited and un-disinherited from their New Hampshire homestead. He had the crumbling onionskin pages re-typed, did research to amplify and modernize the [...]

You just never can tell what you’ll run into. “Back from Tobruk” has a missing relative, and tomorrow I’ll know more. I’m going to a Virginia Festival of the Book talk by Kenneth Gorrell, who discovered in an attic the manuscript that became “Soldier of the Press: Covering the Front in Europe and North Africa, [...]