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Cella Anne, hailing from long-time Mare Island, Vallejo, and Napa/Sonoma County residents LaVier and Blanch Johansen and their daughter Yvonne (a 1947 graduate of Vallejo High School), this book is not just a family and personal history. Cella Anne uses her own voice and the women’s voices of the past to create a portrait of immigration and search for a better life way back to the Virginia Colony.As “eminent domain” led American expansion, Cella Anne parallels her own history of movement with a U.S. Air Force father, awareness of social injustice, the distraction of an indulgent lifestyle in San Francisco, and her return to graduate school and a career as a university professor.
If you are someone interested in genealogy, in history, in issues of oppression and displacement of Indigenous peoples, or even
in changes of religious belief - you will find something of interest in this book.
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