ISBN: 0-88739-524-4
116pp
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 03/2003
Paperback Original
Price: $14.95
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Adventures in Latin America
The Life of One Foreign Service Wife
Elizabeth H. Bernbaum
When Betty Hahn married Maurie Bernbaum in the winter of 1942, she knew that he was an American Foreign Service Vice Consul. However, she could never have known of the exotic places that she?d end up, of the fascinating people she would meet, or of the wonderful children she would bear. There was no warning about making apple pie for President Eisenhower or nearly losing Adlai Stevenson?s pants. The prospect of creating a wide portfolio of vivid, lustrous paintings, of bearing a daughter at 10,000 feet?all but dreams of the often dramatic future that she would one day experience.
Betty Bernbaum relates the story of her captivating life in South America with the charming ease of a dear relative. Her relaxed, ?you-are-there? narrative, coupled with a wonderful insert of photos and the author?s own artwork, immerse the reader in the always exciting life of a young family in a foreign land. Rather than experiencing her journey as a tourist or spectator, Ms. Bernbaum dives right in, whether by helping out the native children or by using her newfound ham radio knowledge to facilitate earthquake rescue. A profoundly American story, Adventures in Latin America celebrates the life of a brave, talented woman.
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