Local Author to speak at Annual Meeting December 6

The  Middleton Area Historical Society invites the public to its annual meeting on Saturday, Dec. 6 at 10 am to hear local editor and publisher Mark Faultersack talk about the publishing of his father's My Book to You From the Greenland Patrol.

Mark Faultersack's will talk about the book he produced on his father's experiences during WWII.

Mark says he is a big fan of World War II Coast Guard history, especially of the Greenland Patrol. His father served in the Coast Guard from 1942 until 1945 and he has preserved many photos, sketches and artifacts from that time on the USCG Cutters Sea Cloud and Evergreen, including the original 150 foot long roll of sonar paper on which the book's content was handwritten.

What was worse? Facing Nazi U-boats in the North Atlantic? Being separated from your brand new bride for 9 months? Or enduring the ice and bitter cold of the Greenland winter?

This amazing true story, from an original World War 2 artifact, is part war journal, part love letter. It was penned by Howard Faultersack to his new bride. Howard was a Morse Code and radio operator while aboard the USCGC Evergreen. It was hand written in 1944-45 on a discarded spool of sonar paper from his ship during a 9-month deployment in the upper North Atlantic with the Greenland Patrol, a United States Coast Guard operation during World War II.

Howard wrote and kept the scroll aboard the ship until the end of his 9 month sea tour so that it would not be subject to the military censors who scrutinized the daily correspondence sent back and forth between the two. He presented it to Claire when he finally returned to Boston.

Also included as an appendix are earlier letters to him from his future wife, Claire, starting just before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and continuing until he was deployed in the North Atlantic.

The talk is free and open to the public.  Following the presentation, Mark will offer book signing and cash sales of his book.