Brokenstraw Rain | Trafford Publishing

BROKENSTRAW RAIN is Cheri Wickwire's second novel. Trafford Publishing Author Cheri Wickwire is also the author of Cadence, The Whig Hill Collection, and several children's stories. Cheri resides in San Diego with her husband, Bob. She has three children and ten grandchildren. Her household includes an Australian Cattle dog named Sadie and a calico kitty named Sophie.

Five percent of all proceeds from the sale of her books go to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on behalf of Epsilon Sigma Alpha International

Overview


Katarzyna Kuzicka and Jan Pietr Wjotla (Viola), arrived in the United States in 1911. They settled in Clarendon, Pennsylvania before getting married and moving to a small farm thirty five miles away in the township of Spring Creek. They raised a family of seven children, four girls and three boys.

The Clough Farm was built down the road from the Wjotla's in 1915. It was a farm before its time. It featured electricity twenty years before other homes in the surrounding communities. Prized cattle were brought in from Scotland. Many of the country's entrepreneurs, the Rockefellers, Morgans and Vanderbilts stayed at the farm and fished the Brokenstraw Creek, one of the finest fly fishing spots in the eastern United States.

Brokenstraw Rain is an interesting story bringing the Wjotla family and the Clough Farm together in a tale of kidnapping, gin running, the Cold War and murder. It spans the lifetime of a pair of Polish immigrants who came to America to seek a better life.



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