Farm In The Green Mountains Washington Ida H.
The Farm in the Green Mountains is a story of a refugee family finding its true home--thousands of miles from its homeland.Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar era Berlin. She was a…
Specifikacia Farm In The Green Mountains Washington Ida H.
The Farm in the Green Mountains is a story of a refugee family finding its true home--thousands of miles from its homeland.Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. But then the Nazis took over and Carl's most recent success, a play satirizing German militarism, impressed them in all the wrong ways. The couple and their two daughters were forced to flee, first to Austria, then to Switzerland, and finally to the United States. Los Angeles didn't suit them, neither did New York, but a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm and the eighteenth-century farmhouse where they would spend the next five years. In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they