Harvesting Memories: "On the farm that raised me." by Linda Lee Cermak Kocan
Linda Lee Cermak Kocan, the youngest of three children, is the second daughter of the late Edward and Anna Cermak of Dillonvale, Ohio. At 71 years of age, Linda decided to take pencil to paper and record her experiences and lessons learned growing up on her small 150-acre family farm in Ohio's Jefferson County in the 1950s and 1960s. It started simply enough. Just jot down a few interesting stories in a notebook to tell her children and grandchildren about their roots, and along the way, pass on some important life values she had learned during those years.
One story led to another, then another and another until, more than two years later, Linda had created a memoir of dozens of chapters brimming with stories and recollections that had evolved into a book-length legacy for family and friends. However, you'll discover there is a much larger audience than that- the promise of a worthwhile and provocative literary excursion for anyone who reads her life story and the many lessons therein.
A vociferous reader, Linda is not a formally trained writer, but this memoir reveals a natural talent for writing about what is most important in life via an approach that is inviting, gentle and authentically warm and loving.
She asks that you place your hand in hers as she takes you on a virtual journey back in time to her farm and a childhood replete with memories told in an unpretentious style that can be humorous, charming and, at times, assertive and life-affirming. She promises that Harvesting Memories will inspire and inform you in ways you might find surprising.
Linda currently lives in the verdant countryside outside of Towanda, Pennsylvania, with Mark, her husband of 52-plus years. They live on a 22-acre piece of land, which they share with deer, various wild critters and their 17-year-old cat, Sydney.
