Christopher

About the Book

Christopher spans over a century of time, originating in Alsace-Lorraine in the early 1870s. Eighteen-year-old Richard Tagg is one of the many emigrants of Europe, making a mass migration to the "golden land" – America – the land of hopes, new ideas, and dreams. It is the story of three generations. Richard's American grand children became orphaned at an early age with the sudden and untimely death of their parents. These were separated a number of years, but were later reunited by an unlikely act of war, and occasioned at extreme odds. These all lived productive lives, and not without some notable achievement. Through the pages we meet a few ordinary folk of fine principle, especially the strong and gentle Papajoe. Christopher and Billy both served in the armed forces, and their life turns took them to Washington D. C., to the U. S. Senate and the War Department.

About the Author

The writer is a Midwestern native, born in Rock, Michigan, near Escanaba, and lived in Wisconsin – at times in Waukesha, Neenah, and Milwaukee. He is a graduate of Neenah High School, and attended Milwaukee School of Eng1neering. In April 1942, he enlisted in the Air Corps, and served nearly four years as a navigator on a flight crew. Upon discharge at Sacramento, California, he and his wife settled in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1981, he retired from the Corps of Engineers at Memphis, and continued writing stories and messages of a religious nature. Christopher is the most recent work. He currently writes weekly messages for a local prison ministry, and instructs an oil painting class at a senior citizens' center.