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World War II, from Europe to the Pacific, was compiled by Esther Joanna Carroll, lovingly known as Nanny. She recorded the events from various news publications in her scrapbooks. She had saved everything from little-known details to the big events that shaped the War and life during that time. The book is a master volume of scanned pages from three large scrapbooks that she constructed as she followed the war from 1939 to 1945.
Who is Nanny?
One of the original scrapbooks
The effort to publish Nanny’s scrapbooks came as a result, from time to time, of searching for a printer to undertake printing a book from three very large scrapbooks. Until, becoming aware of Booklogix in Alpharetta, Georgia, who were most helpful with the concept, planning and printing the book. The result is a book that measures 12.5 x 15.75 x 3.25 inches and weighs about 20 pounds. It has 986 pages.
Ironically, one of their customers, Bob Meyers, a columnist with Appen Media, saw the book and wanted to write an article about it. The following is the article.
The following pictures are sample pages from the first scrapbook. A cover page and the index precede the sample pictures contained in the scrapbook.
but ...
first, page 108, of the first scrapbook, has a writing by Pearl S. Buck that speaks for itself.
A transcription follows the page.
Pearl S. Buck
The only danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be. Let no American today take refuge in the willful helpfulness which shrugs its shoulders and says, “What can I do?”
We have the right and the power to make our country what we want it to be. We are the kind of people that democracy produces ... free, independent in our thought and behavior, fearless, forthright, and kind. I have seen many peoples of the earth, and it is not only patriotism, I think, when I say that we possess these qualities to a greater degree than any other people.
It is not boasting when I say this, either, for like a child born with great gifts, we have these qualities not by any effort of ours, but bestowed upon us by our ancestors, by those brave men and women who came here from other lands because freedom was essential to them ... the freedom to worship God as they willed, the freedom to work and keep themselves and their families from want, the freedom to believe and to speak as they believed, the freedom to live unafraid and a peace, beneath the open sky.
Scrapbook (Part 1)
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