By Robert Mennel
This compelling historical past is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle relations, came upon of their ancestral domestic in Crousetown on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (1844–1914) stored a meticulous diary spanning 5 a long time. Reflective through nature, he recorded the demanding situations of labor, meditated the intricacies of communal lifestyles, and wrote movingly of his own and non secular struggles. His daughter Elvira Crouse Eikle stated on village occasions for neighborhood newspapers, and her son, Harold Eikle (1912–1977), a talented instructor and musician, wrote letters and relations background. Harold’s correspondence celebrated the social liberations of the Thirties and past, but additionally confirmed their limits within the discomfort he skilled as a homosexual guy in a heterosexual world.
Using the kinfolk papers, different unpublished files and oral background, Robert M. Mennel connects the reports of the Crouse-Eikle kin and their neighborhood to greater subject matters of social and cultural swap in North the US. a narrative of shiny personalities and episodes, by means of turns unhappy, conflicted, cheerful, sour, humorous and reflective, Testimonies and Secrets can be learn with excitement through students and basic readers alike.
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