A Kramsky Scrap Book
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Jack Kramsky - the author's maternal great grandfather - escaped from Russia as a 13-year-old stowaway on a ship, ending up in South Wales, and not America, which was his intended destination with dreams of a better life.
Jack was a kind religious man and a real character, confirmed by his many run-ins with the law while bringing up his large family.
A Kramsky Scrap Book is full of family anecdotes and tales, often originally captured by the author on tape recorder. It's also a mine of information about Swansea and the Gower coast, which held special memories for the author, who has retraced many of the journeys made by Jack.
R L Barth
R. L. Barth edited The Selected Letters of Yvor Winters and The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis. Educated at Northern Kentucky College and at Stanford, he lives in Edgewood, Kentucky.
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