One Oar: A Journey With Alzheimer's (SIGNED COPY)

Kalamazoo, MI: Christmas Cove Press, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Brand new and unread SIGNED FIRST EDITION; very fresh and crisp condition; gift quality! Flatsigned by the author on the title page! Black and white pictorial wrapper with green and black lettering. 38 new and unused inspirational and spiritual pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "...the heart of the thing is the marriage. I's not a book about Alzheimer's. ...Beautiful in spirit and in execution, it deserves all the recognition it has received. Gail Martin, Author of The Hourglass . . .each poem is vivid, clearly constructed and deeply moving. Marie gets to the heart with no sentimentality. Conrad Hillberry, Author of Sorting the Smoke and Taking Notes Her candid reflections on love that endures in the face of inexorable loss will resonate with those who face similar challenges. Marie Stoline, RN, Gerontology Services, Kalamazoo, Michigan Poem by poem Bahlke constructs a mitred, polished document, a clear-eyed chronicle of loss. Susan Ramsey, Instructor, Women's Literature, L. Lee Stryker Center, Kalamazoo College........" (SIGNED FIRST EDITION). He fashioned a living with a team of horses and a never-give-up work ethic on land his wife often called "sand banks" when a harvest failed. This memoir covers a thirty-year span of farming through the eyes of Ira's daughter who went from a bare-footed carefree girl to a "hired hand" when her older brother joined the Navy in 1942. She drove horses, hauled hay, picked up stones, bagged milkweed pods and a myriad of other tasks. For senior citizens it may bring back childhood memories. Young readers will perhaps experience a tinge of fantasy or a scene from TV's Walton family. An easy read about rural farm life in the thirties and forties................" (SIGNED FIRST EDITION).