American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past In The Desert Southwest - Plot & Excerpts
Family collection. After nearly a month spent tending to her mother, Bertha traveled to Switzerland with Abraham, leaving Delia, back from her own jaunt with their father, in Bad Pyrmont to watch Julia. Now it was Bertha’s turn to explore. After five train changes and one Russian lamb cape left behind in a railroad car, she and Abraham arrived in Lucerne, “hungry as prairie wolves.” The next day, she saw the Alps for the first time: “It was a grand sight—the bluish-greenish water and the snow-capped mountains looming above it.” Bertha liked the Swiss people she met; she found them “courteous.” Freed from her mother’s infirmity, she behaved like a tourist rather than a health-seeker: sightseeing, visiting springs and lakes and castles and spas, hopping from hotel to hotel, shopping for dresses and spoons, and hiking among the sublime peaks on the Swiss-French-Italian border. (“Went for steep hike down slippery descent, Papa said, ‘It’s a wonder you didn’t fall.’ I kept my peace and didn’t tell him that I had fallen—his back was turned however and I picked myself up as fast as I could and walked on with an unconcerned face.”) Abraham continued to take “baths and douches”
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