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Carol A. Troestler
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My educational background includes a Bachelors Degree in psychology and biology with a minor in English from Ripon College, as well as a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin. I have worked as an English teacher, school social worker and owner of a mental health center where I was administrator, psychotherapist and trainer. I am now retired and enjoying life writing and spending time with my husband and family.
Birth Place: Chicago, IL
Accomplishments: I was a writer and content editor for a program manual for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. I also co-wrote a program and manual for people with life threatening illness. This program, Renewing Life, has had over 4000 participants throughout the country. Schools throughout Wisconsin have presented my play, “The Magic Potion.” My writing history also includes other educational materials for schools, as well as “The Story of the Golden Footprints,” a short story included in several inspirational websites.
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Books
|  | When My Husband Went to War in 1962 by Carol A. Troestler
This book is looking for a home, for a publisher. The cover was designed by my sister-in-law and represents the heart of this important book....
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 | Flow On Sweet Missouri by Carol A. Troestler
Combining genealogy, history and imagination, wars are fought, people move to new places, babies are born, and future generations move in directions of their own influenced by those who have gone before,
The story begins as Mary Boothman, a recent British immigrant to America, has given birth to a daughter, Minnie, on the banks of a coalmine while fleeing bushwhackers terrorizing her hom...
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 | Iowa Born and Bred by Carol A. Troestler
Come take a journey with a family and hear stories of Alf Wilson, a Civil War hero; life in the Midwest in the nineteenth century; and a world of inventions in the twentieth.
Based on genealogical and historical facts, Iowa Born and Bred is part history and part novel, where history comes alive with real people and historical events interwoven with imaginative stories.
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Carol Troestler
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Short Stories
Tribute to My Mother by Carol A. Troestler
October 18, 1914 to June 26, 2008...
My Martin Luther King Story by Carol A. Troestler
A story about my mother....
Intelligence Organizations and Operations by Carol A. Troestler
A chapter from my unpublished work in progress, When My Husband Went to War in 1962...
Carol's Christmas Message 2007 by Carol A. Troestler
My Family in a Tree...
The Medal of Honor by Carol A. Troestler
In Iowa Born & Bred, I feature a cousin of my great-grandfather, one of the first recipients of the Medal of Honor. ...
Significant Pictures by Carol A. Troestler
Sometimes pictures speak a thousand words, but we can still add more....
My Great-Grandfather by Carol A. Troestler
From Flow On Sweet Missouri...
The Story Behind Flow On Sweet Missouri by Carol A. Troestler
Below are the stories of the characters in Flow On Sweet Missouri with pictures....
1865 Alf Tells of Meeting Lincoln by Carol A. Troestler
My cousin was Alf Wilson who was a member of Andrews Raiders, a group that stole a train in Georgia during the Civil War. Later he received the Medal of Honor. What follows is a chapter from Iowa Born...
A Visit to India 1995 Day One by Carol A. Troestler
This story is for my friend Bhawana...
I Am Dave's Sister by Carol A. Troestler
My eulogy to my brother who died February 14, 2007....
Inventions and Other Creations by Carol A. Troestler
How glorious it is, but how painful it is also, to be exceptional in this world!
From La Merle Bland, by Alfred de Musset, 1842...
1914 Women's Right to Vote in Illinois by Carol A. Troestler
Why we need to vote!
A Chapter from Flow On Sweet Missouri...
The Red Convertible by Carol A. Troestler
What if we had three wishes?...
The Path by Carol A. Troestler
Getting lost in the forest does not mean one was not on the right path....
The Artifacts by Carol A. Troestler
From Flow On Sweet Missouri. . ....
My Grandparents by Carol A. Troestler
From Flow On Sweet Missouri...
My Parents by Carol A. Troestler
From Flow On Sweet Missouri...
The Story of the Golden Footprints by Carol A. Troestler
A wise philosopher was once asked,
“What are the things you absolutely must have and do so that you can feel you have lived your life and not wasted it?”
His answer was, “Belong to people. Ac...
From Observer to Participant by Carol A. Troestler
Changes in how I look at life. . ....
Another Kind of Border Town by Carol A. Troestler
A wall that separated a town....
A Warm Summer Night in Merrimac by Carol A. Troestler
A story about a baseball game with eight-year olds and two visually impaired fans who saw more than the rest of us....
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Poetry
My Cooking History by Carol A. Troestler
Cooking and me. . ....
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Articles
Speech for the VMF-122 Marine Squadron Reunion by Carol A. Troestler
The Reunion of VMF-122 pilots from the early 1960s...
War and Peace for Teens by Carol A. Troestler
I spoke to the eight grade social studies classes on my book Flow On Sweet Missouri on the part about the Civil War....
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News
Review in Lakeland Times, Northern Wisconsin Newspaper by Carol A. Troestler
Wisconsin Author''s First Book a Winner...
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Events
Reading from Flow On Sweet Missouri 11/24/2006
Carol will read excerpts from Flow On Sweet Missouri accompanied with harmonica music by Tom Troestler....
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