Snicklefritz: Winifred Elizabeth Manning Allbeck Tells St...
Allbeck Maurer, Ellen
Winifred Elizabeth (Manning) Allbeck -"Snicklefritz" as her papa nicknamed her-began her life in the dead of winter when the world was being torn apart by The Great War and devastated by the Spanish Flu. Nearly 100 years later, she and her daughter, Ellen (Allbeck) Maurer, tell her intimate story. From kerosene lamps and one-room schools to the Great Depression, times changed-and so did her life. School years were followed by long-distance lov...