Patchwork: Stories of Growing Up in the Depression and Breaking Away

by Barbara Jodry, Melinda Jodry (Editor)

Overview

Barbara Jodry was a lifelong writer of poetry, stories, and news articles. After retiring from a teaching career, she turned her hand to writing about her memories of growing up on a farm in North Haven, Connecticut during the Depression and World War II. Rounding out the collection in this book are stories about leaving the farm, working her way through college, marriage, and her parents' life after retiring from years of farming. Two bonus stories are previously-unpublished items of Connecticut history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798993102603
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	09/02/2025
Edition description:	September 2025
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Barbara Jodry was born in Connecticut, and lived much of her life in Northern California. She was a writer, editor, and retired teacher. Her writing genres were memoir, personal vignettes, travel, and poetry. She also wrote feature articles published in Suttertown News, Peaceworks, Because People Matter, and in the Yesteryear column in Senior Spectrum. Her work also appeared in Solar Cooker Review and Yankee Magazine. Her short stories and poems have been published in several anthologies. She died in 2021. Melinda Jodry is her literary executor.