We took a drive into town last night to attend the weekly farmer’s market (we had not known this was a weekly thing til now) in search of fresh veggies and a horsehair hat band for David.

We found neither, oh there were veggies, but none we wanted, yet I did find a pint of still-warm honey that came with a free dipper for only $7!

If you think that was the find of the day, you’d be wrong.

As we perused tables laden with jewelry, crafts, rocks and other wares, I came upon a very nice lady who told me all about her new book she wrote about her mother’s escape from Nazi occupied Germany.

As a child, I’d read the story of Anne Frank, so this was as close as I’d ever experienced to meeting a real life survivor of the Holocaust. The book is about her mother but I was standing there speaking to her daughter, which makes her a survivor also.

If you’d like to read the book, I put a link in the word “book” above. I believe its around $13 on Amazon but I didn’t buy it yet. I plan to. She has a blog too but I find blogspot a bit hard to navigate.

The name of the book is Surviving Brigitte’s Secrets. If this kind of thing interests you, grab a copy on Goodreads or Amazon. Her mother’s name was Brigitte Langer, and the author -who is the lady I met-is Saskia Tepe.

Saskia is an artist as well and had several of her small paintings on the table. How I wished now that I’d have bought something. Hopefully I’ll have another chance next Wednesday.
The longer I thought of what a special meeting this was, the more I want to have a small piece from her, be it her book or her art. I wish her much success!

I did gleen from a few posts on her blog that she gives talks at various libraries about her experiences and in the process, meets many other children survivors.

Wlaking through the park, we saw dozens of apple trees, the kind that bear those tiny little apples we saw at the cider works and in our own rv park. I wonder if they ever get ripe to a point of sweetness. We can see them starting to turn red, but Dave said they never do get really sweet. They are dry and more tart than anything.

Still, they make some pretty good cider.