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Larry Warketin's "A Coat of Many Patches" on Valley Writers Read

KVPR | By Franz
Published October 20, 2012 at 1:38 PM PDT

  

Larry Warkentin brings us this week's story on Valley Writers Read.

"A Coat of Many Patches" is about a guy named Young Pete, who jumps on a freight train to go to Albuquerque so that he can find some work and send home some money to his struggling parents.
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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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