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Anne Marcella's "Miss Carmen" on Valley Writers Read

This week on Valley Writers Read, Anne Marcella reads “Miss Carmen.”  The story is about Carmen, an immigrant from Chile, who worked here in the Central Valley as a housekeeper for several wealthy society women .  But just because she's a servant, doesn't mean that she's servile.  Oh, no!  Just the opposite.  She falls in love with Manuel; but he has other ideas.

Franz Weinschenk, his parents and his older brother Fritz were indeed lucky to get out of Germany just before World War II. For a while they lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Madera, CA. He graduated from Madera High and Fresno State. From 1948 to 1952 he taught at Edison High School in Fresno after which he was drafted and served in the US Army for two years.