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It is not a fun process to be back at the job of transcribing my mother’s letters. I finally finished doing these letters:
+1958 MOTHER’S LETTERS – FINDING LAND
For some reason I skipped this year months ago when I transcribed many, many of my mother’s other letters for other years. The first day of 1958 coincided with the start of our 6th month in Alaska. We lived in the rented log house whose lease was up on July 1.
During April and May my father hiked back into the Eagle River Valley and found the land he staked claim to as our 160 acre homestead. In June my grandmother arrived for her first visit (a month) to the territory.
By the end of July we had moved into a primitive rented cabin. By mid-October we moved into an apartment in Anchorage.
If you read little else of these letters, read the one written December 29, 1958 — it’s a classic mother letter! It describes what happened – from my mother’s point of view – when my mother took the only outside job with a boss that I ever knew her to have during my childhood. It was a part-time evening job that she held for a little over a month. My guess is that her true Borderline colors were flying, and others reacted to her (heaven forbid!). She could not control her work environment the way she controlled her home and children. The result was a natural disaster.
After working many hours today on transcription, I am tired and sick of my mother! Now, I have to decide what I am going to do about the rest of the 1957 letters that I have left until the very last.
I feel like I have spent the day in a place without any light at all, in the complete darkness of my scrambled, devastating childhood — little of which, of course, shows up in my mother’s bizarrely surreal letters.
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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
Posted: 05 Apr 2010 07:54 AM PDT
All children in New York deserve a healthy, happy and safe childhood. This April, it’s your turn to make a difference for the kids in your neighborhood!
To raise awareness of April as Child Abuse Prevention Month, Prevent Chid Abuse New York (PCANY) and its sister chapters around the nation mobilize Pinwheels for Prevention campaigns. As part of these campaigns, New Yorkers make a promise to prevention by distributing pinwheels and hosting educational events throughout the state. Pinwheels are a symbol of a happy, carefree childhood and the belief that getting it right for kids early on is less costly than trying to fix problems after things have gone wrong. Doesn’t every child deserve this opportunity?
Everyone has a role to play in preventing child abuse and supporting families. You can get involved by planting pinwheel gardens in a public place, wearing pinwheel label pins, displaying car and storefront window clings, hosting events for families, and signing a promise to prevention. Businesses, schools, community-based organizations, civic groups, educators, volunteers, decision-makers and families participate.
PCANY offers you the tools to be an active part of Child Abuse Prevention Month. Please contact us to learn more about how to mobilize a campaign in your community. It’s your turn to make a difference for a child!
For more information about mobilizing a Pinwheels for Prevention campaign event near you, please visit our web site or call 1-800-CHILDREN.
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Stop the Storm 