A new book about old times

Sarasota resident Martha Commander Colvig Hildreth recently published her first book, entitled “Bright Blessed Days - Slices of Life in America from 1895 to 1967.” The book is available through barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com and booksamillion.com.

About the inspiration for writing the book, Martha states, “My sister surprised me one day with a letter from our Aunt Louise to her little sister Julie, our grandmother, when Julie was just five years old. Imagining our grandma as a little girl became the beginning of my inspiration for this book. It expanded to include family letters and times remembered, including what Julie, as a young bride, received for her wedding gifts in 1906, school days and vacation fun from the Depression Era, the poignancy of my father’s letters to my mother from World War II, and ending with the golden age of post-war prosperity and idealism through the 1950s and ‘60s. I began to yearn that my grandchildren, growing up today in such a different world, would know our ‘olden days’ frame of reference, and I wished them to gain perspective on their own dynamic but sometimes overwrought lives.”

The book is illustrated with family photos and ephemera spanning 70 decades.

Martha is a freelance writer who grew up in Liverpool, New York and who has lived in Sarasota, Florida for 45 years. She is a retired teacher.

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