Most of the stories, interviews, and accounts are not from Dawn's own life, but all of them helped to shape who she became because all were part of the rich heritage she and her generation shared. And she ends with accounts from World War II. She touches on the Great Depression and its effect on farmers. She describes the bombing of the village school in Bath, which happened ten years before her birth. She details the immigration from the Netherlands to the colonies to Michigan, specifically the immigration of settlers in her own genealogy. The beginning of the book is devoted to snapshots of her rearing on a farm near Bath, Michigan, but then it spirals outward from there. They asked for her stories to be written down, and so she wrote them. Dawn Voorheis Hawks begins the book with a conversation between herself and her grandkids. What shapes a person? A Time and Times: My Memoirs is not a memoir in the traditional sense of telling one's own story from one's own perspective.
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