In Those Days
A Story of Strong Women
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This memoir takes the reader through childhood travel with an independent
mother before World War II, to England, Barbados and France and on to
adventures in Greece and Ohio which include animals, children and a
Greek mother-in-law, concluding with the death of her father in 1985.
The book starts with her childhood in Canada. Trips by steamship with
her mother are described ending with fl ight from France just before the
German occupati on and the perilous convoy back to the safety of Canada.
The Canadian school, subsequent college and scholarship to France end in
marriage to a Greek student. Aft er his appointment as history professor at
Hiram College in Ohio she follows him through scholarships and grants to
Madison Wisconsin, Brussels Belgium, Washington D.C. and the Gennadius
library in Athens Greece. This book is insightf ul and humorous in the
portrayal of travel and the mingling of families of diff erent backgrounds.
Her life was infl uenced by two powerful women, her mother and her
mother-in-law. Although from diff erent cultures, these women were ahead
of their ti mes; strong willed and courageous. Subconsciously these women
prepared her to carry on aft er the devastati ng end of her marriage and the
unexpected death of her mother. When she found it diffi cult to make ends
meet their example encouraged her to take successful rug buying trips to
Iran and Turkey and later to start a career as a landscape designer.
Aft er her father’s death she became a landscape designer, studying in
Ohio, England and France. Some of her experiences in Northeast Ohio are
recorded in All My Phlox, published by Kent University Press, 1999