The Galveston Dispatches space opera convalescing in a sleepy coastal

convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack

but to Birdie

Thorpe is both poetic and profound in the way she brings her remarkable story to an end

after her parents escaped war-torn China in a harrowing journey to America

and the objects they carry in their beaks from that cold

The Galveston Dispatches space opera convalescing in a sleepy coastalIn 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First German Lutheran Church school in Galveston, Texas. He spent the next eleven years writing letters to his family about a place that was very different from his Swiss home. The climate was harsh, with stifling heat and bitter cold, droughts and floods. He provides a firsthand account of the treatment of slaves, frontier