REUNION SUMMER. THE STORY OF A JOURNEY BACK TO NORTH DAKOTA

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SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE ACROSS THE AUTHOR'S NAME as follows: "Best wishes from - | Don Holm." Alumni Edition. 8vo. [8]1-85p. Illustrated with 49 black and white captioned photos and one black and white photo of the author as a young man. Author's Notes To The Alumni Edition, Chronology[of Velva, ND, 1682-1961, Directory of VHS Graduates - 1911-1961, [List of] VHS Superintendents 1911-1961, [List of] Mayors of Velva, and About the Author. ]The inside of the front cover is a map of North Dakota and the inside of the rear cover is a map of Velva, ND. Photo pictorial wrappers printed with black letters on the front cover and the spine and with a black and white photo of a wheat field on the front cover 11 black and white photos from Velva, ND on the rear cover. Just hints of wear to extremities, wrappers clean and bright, some barely noticeable spots along the top edge of the front cover corners square and flat, all photos in find condition, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. "After attending that incredible Golden Anniversary Homecoming[in June, 1961, in Velva, ND] I returned to my jog and dashed off a little Sunday newspaper feature headed, 'There Was a Hot Time In The Old Town,' about Velva and the home town reunion. I was astonished at the resonse. Mail poured in, not only from local and Pacific Northwest readers, but from all over the country. .This lead me to believe that this country realy needs a real live home town for everybody to be from. .In REUNION SUMMER I have tried to record nd preserve some of the Vanishing America as I remembered it, and as it happened to me in June, 1961." [from the Preface] Holm is also the author of THE YEAR THE PICKEREL CAME and numerous others books. Born in Velva in 1918, Don Holm graduated from VHS in 1936. He left home the same year and never returned until the 1961 reunion described in this book. He was a journalist working for THE OREGONIAN. N° de ref. del artículo 009314

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