Evelyne Holingue's "I Am An American" on Valley Writers Read

KVPR | By Franz Weinschenk

Published September 21, 2011 at 9:39 AM PDT

This week on Valley Writers Read, we hear a story by local author Evelyne Holingue. In "I Am An American", Holingue describes how she came to the United States from France and all of the cultural differences she faced.

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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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