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Many families have funny stories, and poignant moments passed through generations. Often, these stories are lost, because they arent written down. Some details of the antecdotes in this book are permanently lost, as are an untold number of then humorous occasions.
For years, when family stories were told and retold with laughter, author Dan Steinbeck threatened to make them in a book. Some of the family - hopefully without regrets now encouraged him, and this is the result.
This book is a compilation of short and generally humorous stories, specifically of the David Steinbeck family and ancestors, and extended branches in the family tree, all in northeast or eastern Missouri, west central or central Illinois.
As may be obvious from the title and the cover, this is not a serious book, but the incidents are all true. Nuts, Squirrels, and Knotholes in the Family Tree was truly a family project, generations in the making.
To be less mortifying for family members to have their humorous personal accounts included, the author bared his soul and included many of his own antics and circumstances.
Its helpful, but not absolutely necessary to know any of the people in the book.
It is the authors wish that fond family times will be recapped and recounted as he shows some of the great times of his family, and offers proof that yes, there are Nuts, Squirrels and Knotholes in the Family Tree.
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Writing has long been a role and even passion of Dan Steinbeck. So has humor. As a child, he sat by the TV writing spoofs of 1970s era TV shows. His father the late David Steinbeck owned the Press News Journal, a weekly newspaper in Canton, Missouri, from 1968 until his death in 2005. Dan began working there in the mid 1970s and continued until July, 2012. He served as editor from 1983 until he left the newspaper, and was publisher for five years after his father’s death. He covered nearly every topic from government, to breaking news, to murder trials, to human interest stories to sports, and more. He was also a news photographer. Dan has won or placed in various award categories for the Missouri Press Association Better Newspaper Contest and the National Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Contest. Dan is the oldest of three children to David and JoAnn Steinbeck,and all three of us also worked sometime at the newspaper office. He has freelanced several stories to magazines, At this writing, Dan also is pastor of Southern Baptist Fellowship Church in Wayland, Missouri. He has been active with an eclectic variety of community activities. He is happily married and the couple have three children and an aging beagle-hound mix dog. Except for a few weeks of visits with his grandparents, and one year on the road with the International Musical Entertainment Group Up With People, Dan has spent his entire life in Canton.
