When the Geese Come: The Journals of a Moravian Missionary, Ella Mae Ervin Romig, 1898-1905, Southwest Alaska Ed.

by Phylis Movius

While studying medicine at Hahnemann University in Pennsylvania, Joseph Herman Romig met Ella Mae Ervin, a nursing school graduate, who shared his desires to help those less fortunate. The couple married and were sent to Alaska where they joined Herman's sister, Edith, and her husband John Kilbuck at the Moravian mission in Bethel. To keep in touch with her family, Ella recorded her daily life in letters home. These transcribed epistolary journals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912006897
• ISBN13: 9780912006895
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"