Have you got a space which epitomizes home,safety and love? 47 Palm Street is such a place and this true story all about the family of characters who live through this amazing home.This True Stroy is our home's eye witnesss account.
We start far away in the Pale Settelement in Russia with my Great Grandfather ,then called Jacob Levi, who we follow while he escapes the umpteenth pogrom. Our now orphaned boy travels through Europe to England where he gains passage to the colonies and finally arrives in then British Guiana. In the sun kissed land he finds safety withing the swaying tall sugar cane fiellds and work on the Plantations of the country.
Jacob finds love with Queenie marrying out of his calss, religion and race. The four children of this marriage Beatrice, Pauline, Hilda and Charlie continue the tale and we delve into their lives learning about all their trails and tribulations and successes too.
Always the back drop of the story silently witnessing everythng is the home bought by Johne Augustus Richards, Beatrice's husband, and this family unitendured and thrived all manner of situations enduring heartache, medical malpractice, colonialism, Marxism, mass Emigration, Polictical coups, brain drain and of course love. A real page turner richly illustrate with genuine rare phoyographs of main protagonists and family.
What will become of the residents? Where will they end up? Read on and enjoy! Every Blessing Ruthy