Trunk Treasure in Tucson: Journey of Discovery

"That we women who here to fore have had to sit quietly at home and wait for news from the battlefront have been given that great privilege of doing our small part". Ida Cecelia Habeger

So wrote the author's grandmother as she sailed into Honfleur Harbor, France, in 1917, to begin her assignment as a Red Cross nurse in World War I.

When the "forbidden" trunk of her youth was finally opened after the death of both of her parents, this maternal grandmother's journal was one of the first treasur...