Cohassett Beach Chronicles: World War II in the Pacific Northwest
After three failed marriages, fifty-year-old Kathy Hogan was banished by her father to live at Cohassett Beach on the Washington coast. She lived frugally in a small cottage, cultivating her garden and writing for a weekly newspaper. With World War II as a backdrop, Hogan turned everyday incidents into entertaining articles for a column called "The Kitchen Critic," published weekly in Aberdeen's Grays Harbor Post.
Lessons in Printing
A printer’s daughter explores the decline of her father and of his craft of letterpress printing. In the middle of her college years Klancy de Nevers' father began to hear voices. Her reaction to his breakdown was not what you would expect from a “well-brought-up” girl. At a time when housewives waxed floors, ironed sheets and washed woodwork, the mentally ill were often warehoused, or tranquilized and sent home to fend for themselves.
The Colonel and the Pacifist
The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl Bendetsen, Perry Saito and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans during World War I The Colonel and the Pacifist tells the story of two men, Karl Bendetsen and Perry Saito, caught up in one of the most infamous episodes in American history: the forced internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.
KLANCY DE NEVERS
Klancy Clark de Nevers has lived in Salt Lake City longer than she can remember but her writings grow out of an upbringing in the Pacific Northwest. She is author of The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl Bendetsen, Perry Saito and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans during World War II. An essay, “My Life with Fonts,” recently appeared in Cagibi Literary Magazine and has been nominated by Cagibi for a 2019 Pushcart Prize.
