Rocking Chair Memories

About the Book

    There was a time when a new Ford cost $275, when you could take a trolley to West Seattle in order to spend a summer day on Alki Beach.
    Blanche Caffiere's's adroit, remarkable recall makes another era come alive in Rocking Chair memories. Among the chapters that will intrigue and amuse you are; Hooked on Peanut Brittle, How Maude Saved Her Nylons, Never Trust A Woman's Purse, and The Boy With The Billion Dollar secret, which tells of a bright boy to whom she taught the Dewey decimal system in grade school Guess who he turned out to be?

"Rocking Chair Memories is a charming, poignant book, a delight to treasure."
Kajira Wyn Berry

About the Author

    Blanche Caffiere graduated from Western Washington University and holds a Masters degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland Oregon. She has taught school in Washington, Oregon and Africa, as well as London, England as a Fulbright exchange teacher.
    Her first full-length work, Much Laughter, a Few Tears, a book about her lifelong friendship with Betty McDonald, was published at the age of eighty-five. Other publications include contributions to two histories of Vashon Island, Washington, Past Remembered I and Past Remembered II, as well as, Ferry Tales, a book about Puget Sound ferryboats. She has also had numerous articles on education published in the Christian Science Monitor and other publications.
    Blanche is now living in Daystar Retirement Village in West Seattle.
    This book, Rocking Chair Memories, is a collection of unordinary incidents that happened to ordinary people. Included are many of her personal experiences beginning when she was five years old in 1911.