Whistling in the Face of Robbers
The Life and Times of Dahn A. Batchelor
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When it was time for us to leave the hospital, my mother and my father (Louis Vincent Batchelor) the man who raped my mother while on a date) took me to their home in Scarborough a suburb of Toronto.
They had previously found a two-room shack on a small plot of land in a farmer’s field in what was then, the town of Scarborough. Their farm animals comprised of chickens, a cat and a dog. The two rooms consisted of a bedroom and a smaller room with a table and stove. There was no water piped into the shack hence there was no sink or toilet or a bathtub. My mother had to walk a hundred feet (33 meters) to the road where a tap came out of a pipe and where she would fill up a bucket with water. The toilet was an outhouse at the back of the shack. There was also no electricity either. It was a far cry from the beautiful house my mother had lived in before she met my father.
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Dahn A. Batchelor could have been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but instead he was born into poverty, living the first year of his existence in a two room shack with no running water or electricity. In this first volume of his memoirs, author Dahn A. Batchelor shares the details of his life—from his birth in Toronto in 1933 to his eleventh year in 1944. This book is the first of six volumes of his memoirs. In this volume, he narrates the story of his childhood, which aside from being one of extreme poverty; he suffered from loneliness and several failures in school. But more than that, he has written about the events in history that encompassed his life along with the lives of his contemporaries. He describes what it was really like to live through the years of the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, and the Second World War. As Batchelor recalls his life from 1933 through to June 1944, you will get the feeling that you were there with him. Unbeknown to him during his childhood years, he would later play a role in society that had a profound effect on the lives of millions of people around the world.
About the Author
Since the writing of his memoirs and reading them was and is a huge undertaking, Dahn Batchelor decided that he would write them in six volumes—two of them in each of three series. His life experiences’ representing his childhood years is in the series, Whistling in the Face of Robbers. The second series which represented his life as a young man is titled, Patience: The snail will reach the ark, and the third series representing his life as an older man is titled Rising from the Ashes.