wow you are really keeping me intrigued with your history. Can't wait to see more and what a wonderful book to have for your children and grandchildren... I must say. I love beautiful Chateau house...
You have me on pins and needles. I want to read the whole thing! Pleas say that you are going to post the rest. This is so beautifully done, the journaling and the design and the whole concept. I love it!
That`s interesting about the tunnels, many of the homes my parents had when they were children in Germany were like that. This book is such a wonderful and interesting keepsake!
Your Family History deserves to be a nice long well made MOVIE...or at the very least a mini series to tell it all?? I'd be the first in line to watch it!!
Hey... where's the rest of it...I got so caught up in the story. THIS is wonderful!!! Keep writing. What a fabulous remembrance for your grandchildren!!! Awesome job!
And I was going to say the very same thing only in different words than Betsey below me. I am waiting for the next chapter of this story. I love the pages you are doing, and the history behind it all! Great work!
OMG....This is like reading a great work of historical fiction except that it is not fiction........Where is the next chapter....????? It is beyond wonderful, the history, the real feelings, the photos, I am stunned. It is a beautiful work that demands that you continue after this challenge is overwith.......I am in awe!!!!!
Love how you trimmed the journal card. Isn't it strange how as children we are vaguely aware of things going on around us? Probably a good thing we didn't know the entire truth.
Chateau de LA Corbillčre Bucy St. Liphard, France c. 1965-1967
In 1965 we moved to France. My father was to work in Orleans and found a house that would accommodate a large family. We attended American schools in Orleans. This picture here is NOT what the house we lived in looked like. This is what the original house looked like before WWII. The house suffered damages from the war and when it was rebuilt it had a flat roof instead of peaked as it shows in the picture. But it was huge. It had 8 bedrooms, 2 kitchens, 2 or 3 full baths and 4 ’water closets’ (That was new to us!). It was out in the country so we could run and play and roam around the countryside. The house did have one unusual feature; it had a ‘cellar’ that supposedly had tunnels that led out into the fields, where we heard the family escaped during the war. You could actually see where a corridor may have been and it had been covered by a concrete wall. To us kids, it was like a scary dungeon, all dark and creepy. Sometime during this time my mother found out she had cancer, had a drastic surgery, which was all they could do during that time. She was around 30 years old. (To be continued) In 1967 President Charles de Gaulle ordered all Americans out of the country. Yes, we were ‘deported’ in a sense. There were definite problems there, but us kids were unaware of it. However, I do recall on several occasions having a ‘bomb scare’ at school, and being evacuated out of the buildings and sent home. Even then, we didn’t perceive the danger of what was going on. So… my father was transferred to Worms Germany (yes, very weird name!)
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