A Bridge of Wood

About the Book

My story begins and ends in Omaha, Nebraska, with an average young couple, their 14-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son. Wonderful Americana oozes off the pages during their visit with an aged great aunt who lives on the farmstead in Danville, Illinois, area that was homesteaded by an ancestor in 1866. Several chapters, through flashback, present the Caleb Bennett family from the first homesteading in Ohio in early 1800, through the early settlement growth of the country, involvement in the Civil War, Ethan Bennett’s dream culminating in his trek to the Illinois prairie land in 1866, with completion of his farmstead in 1869.

About the Author

About me….I am female, born forever ago a couple of years before the ending of WW 1, now obtained the exciting age of 94!!! One of 8 siblings with a large extended family, born on the doorstep of fantastic scientific change that’s never quit. While being terrifically busy with 3 kids, successful career, a 50-year marriage/love affair followed by a 2nd helping with both those wonderful guys up and dying on me, I’ve managed to experience some extensive traveling. My mind fairly explodes with memories of horses, buggies and dirt roads while I’m driving on today’s intricate highway system. Or of kerosene lamps while I’m viewing the lights of the space lab as it orbit’s the sky above me. And via storytelling, I love to make those old times and old ways come alive for today’s younger generations as factors of their heritage. “A Bridge of Wood” spans two centuries with my experiencing first-hand knowledge throughout most of the last one.