An eclectic collection of reviews:
literature, theater, music, dance, even restaurants.
Turning the Hearts: Counsel for my Distant Descendants
This recent publication is a collection of talks, essays, and other material created over the course of many years. It includes many family stories and anecdotes in hope that my descendants will look back with love for their progenitors, seeing us as real people, not just names on a genealogical chart. Others may find it interesting and inspirational as well.
It is available as a paperback from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Hearts-Counsel-Distant-Descendants/dp/B0BP417558/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3SR68MWUPI33T&keywords=roderick+saxey&qid=1680200822&sprefix=%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-4
A Kindle edition will be available later this year.
Immigrants–How the Melting Pot Used to Work
In my recent novel, Growing Up Tough, I weave stories my father told about his childhood in a small mining town in Utah during the twenties and thirties. A key theme is the interaction of various immigrant groups who had come there to work in the coal mines. They started as Greeks, Italians, and others,…
Growing Up Tough
A couple years ago I wrote a novel based on the stories my father used to tell about growing up in the small coal mining town of Price, Utah. This was during the 1920s and 30s and Price in those days had not quite made the transition from the Wild West to the 20th Century.…
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