In 1938, “Better Homes & Gardens” magazine ran a feature on Ann’s family. Here’s the first excerpt from that article written by Doris Hudson Moss: Timidly I crossed the tipping gangplank to the apparently deserted ship I knocked on the hatch that to my landlubbery eyes seemed to be the “front door.” “Come down,” a … More The Tompkins family in “Better Homes & Gardens”

Here’s the last part of Ann’s letter to her friends and family after attending the Peace Congress in Helsinki in 1965: The final resolution drawn up by the Commission on Vietnam stated that the U.S. is mainly responsible for the present war in Vietnam, that the U.S. must withdraw all troops and equipment and cease … More Helsinki Peace Conference – last part of Ann’s letter

Part 3 of Ann’s letter from the World Congress for Peace in Helsinki in 1965: If I may over-simplify the issue, yet hope that you may find some understanding in it, the basic problem seems to be as follows – Our U.S. government is fighting a war in Vietnam, which has never been officially declared … More Peace Congress in Helsinki – Part 3