Jack de Yonge Book Signing Oct 16th at Firewheel Books and Beans

Aug. 20, 2010 - PRLog -- Jack de Yonge is a retired newspaper reporter-editor, political-environmental activist, and avid fly-fisherman who lives with his wife, Sonjia, in Concrete, Wash. His journalism career started at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and ended at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

When Jack de Yonge was born in 1934, Fairbanks was a once-thriving mining town in the remote center of Alaska. As Jack’s dad liked to say, no matter what direction you went out of town, you soon arrived in Nowhere. But now the town was dying, the population draining away.

Then, World War II broke out, and the Japanese attacked Alaska in 1942. As a young boy, de Yonge watched with curiosity and wonderment as the sleepy little river town sprang back to life with the arrival of thousands of U.S. soldiers, Russian Lend-Lease fighter and bomber pilots, and construction workers. They soon had the red-light district romping and the town’s many bars rocking around the clock.

Pulling no punches in his newly published memoir, BOOM TOWN BOY, de Yonge reveals himself to be a fist-fighting, music-loving, reluctant altar boy who discovers his own truths about sex, religion, and racism. His book describes how war arrived in a small town next to nowhere—and nothing was ever the same.

Books will be available at Firewheel for purchase during the event.  Book published by Epicenter Press.
Contact Julie David at (425) 374-7946 or julie@firewheelbooksandbeans for more information.

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About Firewheel Books and Beans: Local Everett WA coffee shop and used book store with wifi. Shop has a lot of seating, a kids area, and open mic nights twice a month. Features local artists and proudly serves Dillano's coffee of Sumner, WA.