Jazzy American Dreamers Author:A. G. Shorts, Jr. This book of photographs and Second World War personal correspondence is a coming of age memoir of three siblings, Channing, Lois, and Paul Colston, during the Great Depression, the War and Post-War years. Lois Colston, as a teenage photographer and photo collector, snapshot her way through the 1930s and 1940s, focusing her Kodak Brownie on her ... more »two beloved brothers, other close relatives, and neighborhood pals and schoolmates. In the process, we get a glimpse of the locales and settings of Lois Colston's subjects.As a remedy to the American cultural condition of, homesickness, the significance of place is vital in these evocative, mid-twentieth century images and war letters. The Colston siblings' positive response to life's fateful circumstances endured in the places of their lives, from Upperville, Virginia; Montclair and Summit, New Jersey; to Philadelphia and Seattle; and France, Belgium and Germany.« less