With Love, Anne

"With Love, Anne" is a love letter written from a woman to her descendants. Laced with poetry and recipes, the story of Anne Friesen takes us from her birth in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century through her 80th birthday in America near the century's end. Along the way she introduces us to the people and events that shaped her life-the loving parents who uprooted their family in one continent for the hope of a better life in another, a passionate, talented husband whose love for his wife was greater than any oratorio he ever conducted, children who provided an outlet for all the love and zweibach she could muster, and friends who enriched her life as she enriched theirs.