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Hope Nisly's "Bella Vista" on Valley Writers Read

KVPR | By Franz
Published October 20, 2013 at 12:38 PM PDT

On this edition of Valley Writers Read, author Hope Nisly tells us what it was like living on a street in a low-rent area in Oakland.

In "Bella Vista", the author shares about the joys and pains of living "on the cheap" in the Bay Area.
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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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