The Portland House: a '70s Memoir

The Portland House takes you into the lives of a widow and her six children as they put down roots in an average Midwestern house in 1970. It welcomes you to the crowded dinner table, where hotdish is a weekly staple and table manners sometimes take a back seat to kids being kids. It shoves you into raucous teenage parties when Mom is on vacation. It chokes you with the smoke of a small kitchen fire. Later you wander the neighborhood and the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, with latchkey kids until the street lights come on. The house is full of love, teenage energy, and an adopted stray who walks with a limp. From the warmth of family on Christmas Eve, to the sadness of a losing a beloved pet, the Portland House is home to it all. So, come on in and experience life growing up in the era of disco, lava lamps, and Tang orange drink.

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The Portland House: a '70s Memoir

The Portland House takes you into the lives of a widow and her six children as they put down roots in an average Midwestern house in 1970. It welcomes you to the crowded dinner table, where hotdish is a weekly staple and table manners sometimes take a back seat to kids being kids. It shoves you into raucous teenage parties when Mom is on vacation. It chokes you with the smoke of a small kitchen fire. Later you wander the neighborhood and the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, with latchkey kids until the street lights come on. The house is full of love, teenage energy, and an adopted stray who walks with a limp. From the warmth of family on Christmas Eve, to the sadness of a losing a beloved pet, the Portland House is home to it all. So, come on in and experience life growing up in the era of disco, lava lamps, and Tang orange drink.

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The Portland House: a '70s Memoir

The Portland House: a '70s Memoir

by Jim Landwehr
The Portland House: a '70s Memoir

The Portland House: a '70s Memoir

by Jim Landwehr

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The Portland House takes you into the lives of a widow and her six children as they put down roots in an average Midwestern house in 1970. It welcomes you to the crowded dinner table, where hotdish is a weekly staple and table manners sometimes take a back seat to kids being kids. It shoves you into raucous teenage parties when Mom is on vacation. It chokes you with the smoke of a small kitchen fire. Later you wander the neighborhood and the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, with latchkey kids until the street lights come on. The house is full of love, teenage energy, and an adopted stray who walks with a limp. From the warmth of family on Christmas Eve, to the sadness of a losing a beloved pet, the Portland House is home to it all. So, come on in and experience life growing up in the era of disco, lava lamps, and Tang orange drink.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940158897665
Publisher: eLectio Publishing
Publication date: 01/23/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

JIM LANDWEHR’S first book, Dirty Shirt: A Boundary Waters Memoir, was published by eLectio Publishing in 2014. He also has two published poetry collections, Written Life (eLectio Publishing) and an ebook, Reciting from Memory. His nonfiction has been published in Main Street Rag, Prairie Rose Publications, Boundary Waters Journal, and others. His poetry has been featured in Torrid Literature Journal, Off the Coast Journal, Blue Heron Review, and many others. He enjoys fishing, kayaking, and camping with his kids in the remote regions of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Jim lives and works in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with his wife, Donna, and their two children, Sarah and Ben. He works as a GIS Analyst for the Waukesha County Department of Parks and Land Use.

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