Eugene Zumwalt - Three Short Memoirs On Valley Writers Read

KVPR | By Franz Weinschenk

Published March 20, 2007 at 10:53 AM PDT

This week on Valley Writers Read, we have three boyhood memoirs by Eugene Zumwalt.

"Thistledown" recalls two boys canoeing on the Willamette River in Oregon.

"Oh, Ross" is what the author's mom used to tell his brother when he did silly things, and "Floating Power" is about the family's 1934 Plymouth sedan.

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Franz Weinschenk

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.

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