Letters from Spain - Pepper, Francie Garber
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In the summer of 1960, Francie Garber, nineteen years old and a junior at Smith College, left New York City on the SS Independence and set sail across the Atlantic. Eight days later, she arrived at the port of Algeciras in Southern Spain and from there took the train to Madrid. Francie would spend the next year fully immersed in Spain, a nation still under the firm grip of Francisco Franco. The events, encounters, and relationships from that single year would forever change her life. The friendships continue to the present. Told largely through letters Francie wrote home and reflections years later, this is her story.…mehr

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In the summer of 1960, Francie Garber, nineteen years old and a junior at Smith College, left New York City on the SS Independence and set sail across the Atlantic. Eight days later, she arrived at the port of Algeciras in Southern Spain and from there took the train to Madrid. Francie would spend the next year fully immersed in Spain, a nation still under the firm grip of Francisco Franco. The events, encounters, and relationships from that single year would forever change her life. The friendships continue to the present. Told largely through letters Francie wrote home and reflections years later, this is her story.
Autorenporträt
Francie Garber Pepper is a fifth-generation Cincinnatian who has dedicated her life to advocacy for women's rights, children, and volunteerism while raising her own four children and hosting exchange students. She graduated from Smith College in 1962 with a degree in Spanish. She won a prize from the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C., a second trip to Spain. She then worked as an executive assistant and translator/interpreter in the legal department of a small international company. She, her husband John, whom she married in 1967, and children made five international moves. Her experiences abroad both as an international student with Smith College's Junior Year Abroad Program in Spain, seven years with her family in Italy and Belgium, as well as extensive travel around the world, have provided much inspiration throughout her life. Her challenges and joys in cultural immersion come to full color in her Epilogue/Memoir and her letters to her parents and family at home.