Peculiarly Yours

About the Book

Peculiarly Yours is an adventurous, humorous history, punctuated with the dynamics of family relationships, school experiences, vacations and entry into early adulthood, employment and marriage. Placed in the setting of a small upper Midwestern town, the author's life is touched both by elements of sweeping proportion-the Great Depression and World II-as well as family, faith, and the challenges of childhood and adolescence in a religiously strict home environment.

Peculiarly Yours will invite you into some of the innermost rooms of the soul as the author writes of internal conflicts, loss, and faith in the midst of troubling times and parental efforts to shape identity and character. This is a fast-paced personal history of life, death, comical mishaps, romance and maturation sketched against the backdrop of the 1930s and 1940s on the northern plains.

About the Author

North Dakota native, Ella Beth Clark Schoenig, has been a resident of Colorado since 1971. Following her marriage in 1948, she was primarily occupied as a stay-at-home wife and mother. She has three grown children, enjoys scrap booking, church activities, and regularly composes poetry. Peculiarly Yours is her first book.

Steven Schoenig, a North Dakota native, has a Master?s degree in counseling. He is passionate about Midwest history and recently placed an Iowa church on the National Register of Historic Places. His love of history, coupled with a desire to write, prompted him to work as co-author on Peculiarly Yours.