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~ Patricia Dueck

Stories and Observations

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Making of the Movie

July 5, 2016

I think every writer hopes that their book is made in to a block-buster movie (that doesn’t butcher the book …

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Outlining

June 29, 2016

I have been working on an outline for my book.  I learned this process at the Novel in Progress Book …

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Toys

June 19, 2016

Particular war gadgets made for interesting entertainment and boisterous toys.

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Writing about War

June 17, 2016

I am currently writing a short story for a contest.  It is about my dad and his gang in Potsdam, …

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Veranika – Family Recipe from Molotchna Colony

June 6, 2016

Oh!  I love the results of this “recipe”.  I was always very excited when my mother would make these little …

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Research

June 3, 2016

One of the issues I’ve had in learning my dad’s story is knowing what path the wagon train took from …

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Map of Wagon Train Trek 1943

June 2, 2016

The wagon train trek from Gnadenfeld (Bohdanivka) to Hrushka.  Dad and his family left Gnadenfeld September 1943.

Chapter 1 Part 6

November 3, 2012

It frustrated Isaak that there was no rhyme or reason to who was considered an enemy of the State and …

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Chapter 1 Part 5

October 21, 2012

Some “policies” of the Stalinist Soviets were exceptionally brutal.  People everywhere in the Colony were encouraged by the State to …

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Chapter 1 Part 4

October 21, 2012

When the collectivization was in full force in the early 1930s, a dark period of famine started that continued to …

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Interesting Photos

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gnadenfeld home
school
Mennonite made bricks and masonry.
Mennonite made bricks and masonry.
goat
Mennonite bricks today.
Mennonite bricks today.
Photo found at the Mennonite Ministry Center in Halpstadt, Ukraine.
Photo found at the Mennonite Ministry Center in Halpstadt, Ukraine.
Berlin 1945
Berlin 1945

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