![]() ![]() You can read more about the book on the Simon & Schuster website. After much digging, I did find out what happened to him, and it was emphatically not what officials told the family at the time.” While it may have receded in time, its corrosive effect on my father and his family of origin had not. “What happened to Barton, who was unaccounted for at the end of World War II, had been a long-repressed family mystery. The final chapters are suspenseful and leave the reader urging Barton to continue hanging on as his treatment declines from inhumane to unimaginable. Last year, we asked Freeman about what the book meant to her. Sally Mott Freeman, author of The Jersey Brothers. Mott says she had to build a timeline, speak to dozens of people, and comb through trunks and storage boxes of information. The book is the result of a decade of research. The middle brother, Bill, was Freeman’s father. The lecture is free and open to the public.įreeman has been busy this year, following the release of her first book, “The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family’s Quest to Bring Him Home.” The book is the true story of three brothers, all serving in World War II, and what happens when the youngest brother, Barton, goes missing in the Philippines. on Friday, April 13, in the Reahard Learning Gallery at Mary Helen Cochran Library. ![]() ![]() “Jersey Brothers” author Sally Mott Freeman ’76 will be the featured speaker for the Gerhard Masur Lecture presented by Sweet Briar’s Friends of the Library. ![]()
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