5/19/2023 0 Comments Keeping the house by ellen baker![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She first arrives in Pine Rapids as a new bride in the summer of 1896. The matriarch of the Mickelson family is Wilma. ![]() Little does the town know that this family of wealth and apparent great fortune in all they touch really suffers from heartbreak, deceit, family secrets and gut wrenching sadness. At least that is what the towns people, especially members of the Ladies Aid, think of the Mickelsons and their house on the hill. But what this book holds inside is an epic story about three generations of the Mickelson Family of Pine Rapids, Wisconsin, the effect of two world wars on a family and the people surrounding them as well as a curse placed on the gorgeous, imposing, massive family house that overlooks the town as if looking down its nose. The new paperback version, released last Tuesday, July 15, 2008, is very retro with the simple picture of a red and cream checkered apron and a weathered look to the ink, as if this copy had been collecting dust on a shelf for the last sixty years. Keeping the House by Ellen Baker is much more than it seems when you first look at the cover. ![]()
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