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Barbara Link's "Yellow Airplane" on Valley Writers Read

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On this edition of Valley Writers Read, Barbara Link brings us a story called, "Yellow Airplane".

This story is about a girl named Dessie, who can't wait until she's old enough to fly her father's yellow Piper Cub all by herself.

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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.