" A Son to War " ~ The Harkness Family Chronicles
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An American Heritage Novel by A.R. Koheen

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The Harkness family Chronicles
    A rural family's story in the heartland of Middle America is told by different voices throughout their generations.

  1.    Antietam To a National Anthem “ 

  2.    A Son to War, Letters to GOD From a Quiet Spirit on the Home Front      

 Reprinted by permission of Star of Bethlehem Press      

    3.    Avid “  ~ The Story of Maude Any Webb  

   4.    A Country Homecoming                                                                   

   5.    America’s Child   

   6.    ‘A’ is For Amos, ‘B’ Is Something You are…                           

   

Woodrow Harkness' granddaughter Maude Amy married a gentle, self educated farmer who gave up his education in the third grade to support his widowed mother and sickly baby sister, in order to keep the homestead alive after her older brother's trajic death in a farming acidnet at the beginning of the new Century. Together they shared a full life whatever the weather or circumstances until a second world war reaches into their quiet lives to claim their two oldest sons, leaving them to protect and raise their middle daughter and two youngest sons as America reels with the private cost of World Wat II. Told in a series of letters, " A Son to War, Letters to GOD From a Gentle Spirit on the Home Front " is the celebration of lives lived in love and harmony of purchase despite the harsh treatment of their author for his Patristic views, based on his understanding the Gospel on which he was raised. As we share their lives, through Amos Webb's eyes, we are given anintimate glimpse to the America he loves and defends, in his own way.

Farmer

1939

Asia Rachael Cohen