A Rendezvous to Remember by Terry & Ann Garretson Marshall Book Tour, Guest Post & Giveaway! {Ends 3/8/21}

Book Details:
A Rendezvous to Remember: A Memoir of Joy and Heartache at the Dawn of the Sixties by Terry Marshall, Ann Garretson Marshall
Category:  Adult Non-Fiction (18 +), 378 pages
Genre:  Memoir, Romance ~ Tour dates: Feb 9 to Mar 1, 2021
Publisher:  Sandra Jonas Publishing ~ Release date:   Feb 2021
Content Rating:  R. This memoir contains mature themes, explicit sex scenes, one f-word, and occasional profanity.
Book Description:
    In June 1964, Ann Garretson skips her college commencement to tour Europe with Lieutenant Jack Sigg, a tank commander on the German-Czech border, with the hope of returning as his fiancée. A month into their rendezvous, her best friend, Terry, proposes marriage—by mail—throwing all their lives into turmoil.
       Jack offers the military life Ann grew up with. Terry, a conscientious objector, will leave for the Peace Corps at the end of the summer—unless the draft board intervenes and sends him to jail. Her dilemma: she loves them both. Caught between the old mores and winds of change, Ann must make an agonizing choice. 
         In alternating voices, A Rendezvous to Remember presents firsthand accounts by the two who eventually married, enriched by letters from the rival, whose path led him elsewhere. Provocative and delightfully uncensored, this coming-of-age memoir, anchored in the tumult of the sixties, is a tribute to the enduring power of love and family.

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 GUEST        POST:

The (Unexpected) Joys of Research:
        The French Lieutenant During our research for A Rendezvous to Remember, Ann found a 1963 article on the internet from the military newspaper Stars and Stripes. It featured two French lieutenants relating their experiences in guarding the Czech-German border in conjunction with American soldiers.
        Ann’s boyfriend, Lieutenant Jack Sigg, had mentioned in his letters to her that the saving grace of those lonely stints on duty at the border was the chance to visit with his French counterparts because they knew so much about history and politics and were great conversationalists.
        She wondered if the two soldiers had met Jack or her brother, who was also stationed there.  
        Lo and behold she found a Facebook address for one of them. She wrote him. He answered. She asked him about Jack and her brother. He wrote back and said he had pictures, but he couldn’t remember names. He scanned a couple of pages from his photo album and sent them to her. Among the snapshots were several labeled “Lt. Sigg” and “Lt. Garretson.” Yes, indeed, he had met them. More than once.
          Two years later, as the draft of our book matured, Ann and I traveled through Europe for seven weeks redoing (researching) the trip she and Jack took in 1964.
           One of the highlights of our 2014 trip: a delightful afternoon in the country home in the fields near Tours, France, of French Lieutenant Jacques D’Achon and his family, including four grandchildren straight out of The Sound of Music. Jacques’ wife, Anne, served up a homecooked, seven-course meal with fresh veggies from their expansive garden, complete with wine pairings provided by one of their grown sons who owns a vineyard and a plate heaped with cheeses from a dozen different French provinces.
         After dining, we spent the rest of the afternoon journeying through Jacques’ photo albums—a trip well-lubricated with other varieties of French wines. Remember those thick black photo album pages with the black corner mounts? Yep, they have them in France.                   
            Fortunately, we’d come to Tours via train from Paris—no driving that day. We made it back to our little family hotel on the Left Bank with ease.
          The lesson of the day: Solid research is the key to a good story. But equally, solid research can lead to experiences you’ll treasure for life.—Terry Marshall, coauthor, A Rendezvous to Remember.

Meet the Authors:
         Terry Marshall and Ann Garretson Marshall taught English in the Philippines as Peace Corps volunteers and later served as Peace Corps country co-directors in the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, and Tuvalu.
       Back in the States, they worked side by side as community organizers and activists in Colorado.
        Terry went on to write fiction and nonfiction works on discrimination, poverty, rural development, and intercultural conflict. Ann has thirty years of experience as a writer, editor, and community-government go-between for issues related to nuclear and hazardous waste cleanup. Always seeking adventure, Terry and Ann have traveled to forty-three countries. They live in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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