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 text, and wrote an introduction. He thinks Gorrell’s life was shortened by the stresses of the war.

Just as for me, the internet made his research so much more possible, helping him get in touch with members of his extended family — Henry Gorrell’s grandson and through him, Henry’s three children.

One problem he had, I did not have. Chunks of his text had been razored out by the censors. Croswell Bowen ignored censors (although he didn’t always get away with it).

An inspiring evening.