Record #:

8213

Author(s):

Brinkman, Grover

Abstract:

Before electric heaters, country farms were heated by wood stoves. Brinkman writes about a day in his childhood when his family's wood stove blew up. Describing a forgetful hired hand named Red, Brinkman tells how a few forgotten rifle bullets ended up in the wood stove. This caused the explosion.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 52 Issue 6, Nov 1984, p11-12, por

Subject(s):

Farm life--Anecdotes

Record #:

15161

Author(s):

Brinkman, Grover

Abstract:

Miss Ruby Daniels was a Baptist missionary in Budapest during World War II. She was sent to Hungary in 1935 and remained there until 1942, not including a furlough in 1939. Miss Daniels was in charge of a girl's school and remained as long as possible until German troops marched through the city streets. Her return journey was as harrowing as her time in war-torn Europe; she sailed with 900 other passengers including four missionaries and hundreds of Jewish refugees aboard Serpa Pinto. The Portuguese ship arrived in Florida on February 16 after making a treacherous trip across the Atlantic with submarine attacks imminent.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 9 Issue 41, Mar 1942, p6, 22, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Accounts; Missionaries--Europe; Daniel, Ruby Inez, 1920-1997