Mark Arax's "Confessions of An Armenian Moonshiner" on Valley Writers Read

KVPR | By Franz Weinschenk

Published October 20, 2013 at 12:38 PM PDT

One of the Valley's great writers, Mark Arax, brings us this week's story on Valley Writers Read.

"Confessions of An Armenian Moonshiner" is about Arax's life and the history of the Armenian people in the Valley.

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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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