Janet Nichols Lynch's "My Beautiful Hippie" on Valley Writers Read

KVPR | By Franz Weinschenk

Published April 10, 2014 at 10:12 AM PDT

This week on Valley Writers Read, local author Janet Nichols Lynch reads her story “My Beautiful Hippie.” We get to meet a family who lived in the Haight-Ashbury District in San Francisco during the Vietnam War. The daughter becomes interested in a hippie, but the rest of the family can't stand him.

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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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