Early in 1941 the Grays Harbor Post, in Aberdeen, Washington, introduced its readers to "The Kitchen Critic, " a new column chronicling life in nearby Cohassett Beach. By the end of the year the U.S. was at war, and columnist Kathy Hogan's weekly dispatches turned to soldiers, rationing, and the barbed wire that lined the sand dunes around her weathered cottage. Today, fifty years later, Kathy Hogan's writings provide a window onto how one Pacific Northwest community responded to World War II. Cohassett Beach Chronicles, a ...
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Early in 1941 the Grays Harbor Post, in Aberdeen, Washington, introduced its readers to "The Kitchen Critic, " a new column chronicling life in nearby Cohassett Beach. By the end of the year the U.S. was at war, and columnist Kathy Hogan's weekly dispatches turned to soldiers, rationing, and the barbed wire that lined the sand dunes around her weathered cottage. Today, fifty years later, Kathy Hogan's writings provide a window onto how one Pacific Northwest community responded to World War II. Cohassett Beach Chronicles, a collection of Hogan's columns from the war years, offers a remarkable social history of the war at home. The attack on Pearl Harbor brought U.S. troops to Cohassett Beach and to towns up and down the West Coast. With sharp wit and perception, Hogan writes of civilians valiantly coping with this friendly occupation and wartime scarcity. Her neighbors - loggers, commercial fishermen, Finnish cranberry farmers - learn to live with blackouts, blimps, and a ban on beachcombing. From her victory garden, Hogan watches troops - city boys unnerved by the tall timber and farmers' sons in awe of the ocean - come and go. Hogan's weekly descriptions of life on the home front capture America's wartime mood. Together, her columns document the war's tremendous impact at home, from the internment of Japanese Americans and the spread of government regulations to the changing role of women. They also reveal that in spite of the war effort life, in many ways, continued as it always had. There was still time to pick blackberries, gossip at the local tavern, and attend the occasional Friday night dance.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 7x1x10; Inscribed by Lucy Hart, co-editor and illustrator, on the title page. Text and images are clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket in a mylar cover.
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Illustrations by Lucy Hart. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Signed by Illustrator(s) Signed by editor and illustrator Lucy Hart on the title page with no inscription; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; illustrated with black and white photographs and line drawings; removable "Autographed Copy" sticker on front cover.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0870713841. 290 pages. Glossary. Index. Reproductions of black and white photos. Signed and inscribed by editor upon title page. "A collection of Kathy Hogan's columns from the war years...Offers a remarkable social history of the war at home."-from dust jacket. Clean and bright with negliglble wear. An excellent copy.; 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; Cohassett Beach Chronicles: World War II in the Pacific Northwest World War 1939-1945 Washington State Social Life and Customs Aberdeen WWII Washington State Northwest Coast; Signed by Author(s)
