Brokenstraw Rain

Résumé du livre

Katarzyna Kuzicka and Jan Pietr Wjotla (Viola), arrived in the United States in 1911. They settled in Clarendon, Pennsylvania before getting married and moving to a small farm thirty five miles away in the township of Spring Creek. They raised a family of seven children, four girls and three boys.

The Clough Farm was built down the road from the Wjotla's in 1915. It was a farm before its time. It featured electricity twenty years before other homes in the surrounding communities. Prized cattle were brought in from Scotland. Many of the country's entrepreneurs, the Rockefellers, Morgans and Vanderbilts stayed at the farm and fished the Brokenstraw Creek, one of the finest fly fishing spots in the eastern United States.

Brokenstraw Rain is an interesting story bringing the Wjotla family and the Clough Farm together in a tale of kidnapping, gin running, the Cold War and murder. It spans the lifetime of a pair of Polish immigrants who came to America to seek a better life.