STORIES BY AND ABOUT THE KLEE FAMILY

1. a. A Klee family Christmas story from long ago

    b. Adventures with my father  A Fallen Hero A boy needs a hero.

  2.   Hard Times  The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, brings the US into World War II

                                   and causes a major business setback for my father.

 2.  How My Childhood Came To An End:  Pearl Harbor

3. A Klee Family Saga - from Brooklyn to Paris

4. Growing Up in a Double Matriarchy - A Mother's Day Story about My Mother and Aunt Cara 

                               (two great women).

5.  Founding Fathers -- Where did the Klee's come from?  This is a story for Father's Day.  

                                It describes when and how our American branch of the Klee family 

                                was founded in California during the 19th century.

6.  A Gift from the Storm -- One of the happiest things that ever happened to our family was caused by a hurricane!

                              It happened in 1933, but every time another hurricane comes, I'm reminded of it.

7. A Christmas Song Strictly speaking, the story is fiction, but it is based on my encounters with large

                             numbers of desperate, starving people in Europe months after Germany’s 1945 surrender to

                            Allied forces in World War II.

8. Where I'm From   (by a seventh grade grandchild)

9. “WHAT WAS CHRISTMAS LIKE WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD, GRANDPA?”