HOULTON — Kathryn Olmstead and Philomena Baker will tour Aroostook County June 25-28 to introduce and sign their book “Flight to Freedom.”
Previewed as a seven-part series in the Bangor Daily News in 2010, “Flight to Freedom” documents Baker’s experience as a German refugee during World War II. Evacuated from Odessa on a hospital train for wounded German soldiers,
Baker and her mother walked most of the way to American-occupied Germany, arriving with surrendering German soldiers in 1945.
The story that begins in Russia ends in Maine where Baker settles initially in Fort Kent, as the bride of a Fort Kent man, and eventually in Hampden, where she becomes well-known throughout New England for fine portrait photography.
“Flight to Freedom” is available at Works of Heart in Caribou, Paradis in Fort Kent, Merchants on the Corner in Presque Isle, York’s Bookstore in Houlton, from www.maine authorspublishing.com, and at the signings (cash and checks only).
Olmstead and Baker will appear at York’s Bookstore from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, June 28.
