Dredgings

About the Book

This is a story of coming of age in the America of the 1930's and 40s. It hurtles from small town Kentucky to rural Pennsylvania to New York City, Westport, Connecticut; Detroit, Michigan; Denver, Colorado, and back to New York, scattering am alphabet redolent of the period: FDR, NRA, CCC, WPA, WWII, CIO, AFL, FBI, enroute from the Methodist Church through the Communist Party.

About the Author

Barbara Bowen Feied’s ancestry is stubborn Scotch dissenter—Seekers who left Massachusetts Bay Colony to trek through the wilderness with Roger Williams. True to her origins she carries on the pilgrimage for a better world through war and peace, depression and disillusion. (Frederick Feied)