Its All About Julie

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It's All About Julie is a family memoir in which the author relates her life story, from the 1920's rural New York to her elderly years in Virginia Beach. She chronicles her early youth on the family diary farm in much detail. She writes in a frank and straightforward manner of her own youthful indiscreations, Her dissatisfactions with the limits of farm life is clearly coupled with a love for the rhythum and routeen of the farm. She continues to describ her loving marriage and her husbands ambition: their adventures to include job changes, building houses, and travel - both by RV through the United States, and across the ocean to Morocco and throughout Europe. Her family bonds, at times fraught, are depicted with humor. Her relationships to her parents (especially to her "Jekyll and Hyde" father), to her mild-manner and friendly husband, and to her boisterous children are described with candor and personality, making this a valuable chronicle for her family and any large family respectively.

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Julianne Fetterly, Mother, Grandmother, Great grandmother, widower, and matriarch of her parents multi-generational Vince family. She relates her life story from the 1920's rural New York to her elderly years in Virginia Beach. She chronicles her youth on the family farm in great detail, describing the machinery and chores involved in running a large diary farm: milking cows, threshing wheat, gathering silage, and maintaining fields and house. Her writings are frank and straightforward manner of her own yothful indiscreations. Her dissatisfaction with the limits of farm life is clearly coupled with a love for the rhythum and routeen of the farm. Her ambitious and hardworking husband and many of thier seven children, endured living on a dairy farm, building houses, job changes, and travel - both by RV through the United States, and across the ocean to Morocco and throughout Europe. Her family bonds, at times fraught, are depicted with humor. Family relationships - to her parents (especially to her Jekyll and Hyde father), to her mild-mannered and friendly husband, and to her boisterous children - described with candor and personality, making this a valuable chronicle of a large family life; and Fetterly family history.Marty Fetterly is the coauthor and eldest son of the author, his Mother. He is married to wife Patricia, living in Suffolk, Virginia. He is a retired twenty-five year US Navy Chief Warrant Officer, and post service retired Qualified Mental Health Counselor having worked with At-Risk teenagers and other youth in the Tidewater area of Virginia. He and his wife are active church members, and they cordinate the Annual Winter Coat Missions Drive in gathering and shipping winter coats to Native Americans in a ministry in Grandforks, ND. He is a member of the Churchland Writers Group, Portsmouth, Virginia. He likes to write, read and is an avid gardener and mountain bike rider. He and his wife have three adult children and six grandchildren between them.