Abner's Escape - Softcover

It is 1730. Abner, ten, and his family's religious group are refugees Pennsylvania bound, not knowing where danger lurks, where they will sleep or find food. Pennsylvania Dutch roots, language, culture and food are explored as Abner learns life's lessons.

In 1945, Louise Mann, a teacher from California, married Dean Coffman, a sailor from Pennsylvania. They moved to a Pennsylvania Dutch area of his state where she absorbed the language and culture that surrounded her. Fifty years later, at seventy-four, she put it into a novel, Abner's Story. Since its publication she has been marketing it with Dean's help, and researching and writing Abner's Escape. Coffmans raised three children, and built their own house. Louise was a Brownie Leader and Den Mother. Then Dean joined the Navy Reserve, and she taught elementary school, finished college, earned a Masters' Degree and wrote a newspaper column. She is active in church, reads, travels, and is a great cook. Coffmans have six grandchildren and three great granddaughters.