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join our current Betty MacDonald fan club contest, please.
What happened to Betty MacDonald on October 30, 1938?
Send your answer, please and perhaps you'll be the lucky winner of several fascinating Betty MacDonald fan club items.
Deadline: October 31, 2015
Betty MacDonald Fan Club fans from all over the World are very interested in Wolfgang Hampel's interviews, stories and poems.
You'll
be able to read some of Wolfgang Hampel's new satirical stories and
poems in our Betty MacDonald Fan Club newsletter. It'll be available in
November.
Wolfgang Hampel is journalist, author, artist and poet.
He
is the winner of the first Betty MacDonald Memorial Award.
As
we all know Wolfgang Hampel founded Betty MacDonald Fan Club and Betty
MacDonald Society in 1983.
Betty MacDonald Fan Club has members in 40
countries.
Wolfgang Hampel visited all the places where Betty MacDonald and her family lived.
Wolfgang
Hampel's new Betty MacDonald documentary of Betty MacDonald's life in
Boulder, Butte, Seattle, Laurelhurst, Chimacum, Vashon Island, Carmel
and Carmel Valley is really fascinating. My personal favourites are
scenes of Betty's and Don's life in Carmel and Carmel Valley.
Wolfgang
Hampel, author of Betty MacDonald Biography, interviewed Betty
MacDonald's family and friends and many other famous artists and
writers, for example Astrid Lindgren, Truman Capote, J. K. Rowling, Maurice Sendak, David Guterson, Donna Leon, Ingrid Noll, Marie Marcks, William Cumming, Walt Woodward and Betty MacDonald
Fan Club Honour Members Monica Sone, Letizia Mancino, Darsie Beck and Gwen Grant.
Wolfgang Hampel is also very well known for his satirical poems and stories.
We
are going to share Wolfgang Hampel's work with many fans from all over
the world who adore his Betty MacDonald Biography and unique Betty
MacDonald Interviews.
Wolfgang Hampel's newest literary project is Vita Magica.
Viele Betty MacDonald Fan Club
Fans aus der ganzen Welt sind sehr an Wolfgang Hampels Interviews,
Geschichten und Gedichten interessiert.
Sie
können einige von Wolfgang Hampels neuen satirischen Geschichten und
Gedichten im nächsten Betty MacDonald Fan Club Magazin lesen.
Wolfgang Hampel ist Journalist, Autor, Künstler und Poet.
Er
ist der Träger des ersten Betty MacDonald Gedächtnispreises.
Wie wir alle wissen gründete Wolfgang Hampel 1983 den
Betty MacDonald Fan Club und die Betty MacDonald Society.
Der Betty
MacDonald Fan Club hat Mitglieder in 40 Ländern.
Wolfgang Hampel besuchte alle Orte wo Betty MacDonald und ihre Familie lebte.
Wolfgang
Hampels neue Betty MacDonald Dokumentation über Betty MacDonalds Leben
in Boulder, Butte, Seattle, Laurelhurst, Chimacum, Vashon, Carmel und
Carmel Valley ist wirklich faszinierend. Ein Höhepunkt sind Szenen von
Bettys und Dons Leben in Carmel und Carmel Valley.
Wolfgang Hampel, Autor der Betty MacDonald Biografie, interviewte Betty
MacDonalds Familie und Freunde und viele andere berühmte Künstler und
Schriftsteller, z.B. Astrid Lindgren, Truman Capote, J. K. Rowling, Maurice Sendak, Donna Leon, David Guterson, Marie Marcks, Ingrid Noll, William Cumming, Walt Woodward und Betty MacDonald
Fan Club Ehrenmitglieder Monica Sone, Letizia Mancino, Darsie Beck und Gwen Grant.
Wolfgang Hampel ist auch sehr bekannt für seine satirischen Gedichte und Geschichten.
Wir
werden Wolfgang Hampels Werk den vielen Fans aus aller Welt vorstellen,
die seine Betty MacDonald Biografie und die einzigartigen Betty
MacDonald Interviews schätzen.
Wolfgang Hampels neues literarisches Projekt ist Vita Magica.
Thomas
Vita Magica
Betty MacDonald fan club
Betty MacDonald forum
Wolfgang Hampel - Wikipedia ( English )
Wolfgang Hampel - Wikipedia ( German )
Wolfgang Hampel - Monica Sone - Wikipedia ( English )
Wolfgang Hampel - Ma and Pa Kettle - Wikipedia ( English )
Wolfgang Hampel - Ma and Pa Kettle - Wikipedia ( French )
Wolfgang Hampel in Florida State University
Betty MacDonald fan club founder Wolfgang Hampel
Betty MacDonald fan club interviews on CD/DVD
Betty MacDonald fan club items
Betty MacDonald fan club items - comments
Betty MacDonald fan club - The Stove and I
Betty MacDonald fan club organizer Linde Lund
Betty MacDonald loved in Germany
Axel Schappei The Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber June 16, 1983
Go
into any ordinary German bookstore and ask for former Islander, Betty
MacDonald's paperbacks and you'll be handed - at least - three books:
Die Insel und ich ( Onions in the Stew ), Das Ei und ich ( The egg and I
) Betty kann alles (Anybody can do anything).
Scholars in the Pegasus
German courses on the Island may notice that the German titles of Betty
MacDonald's famous autobiographical novels have been translated
appropriatley.
Betty would like them. Betty MacDonald, who lived on Vashon Island, is tremendously popular in Germany. She once was one of
the most well known and widely read novelists in the United States. But
would you guess that more than two million paperbacks and hard-cover
books of Betty MacDonald have been published and sold in Germany during
the last 30 years?
Her bestseller The Egg and I reached about half a
million in July 1981. From March 1964 until October 1980, 107000 copies
of Anybody can do anything were sold in 12 editions. Onions in the Stew -
her novel about living on the Rock - sold 103000 copies from May 1964
until September 1980, also in 12 editions. "She is incredibly
successful, really, not only her novels. Her books for children like
Nancy and Plum or the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle-Stories still belong to the
most successful childrens' books after all those years," says Wolfgang Hampel, who is so convinced about Betty MacDonald.
He simply loves Betty
MacDonald and her books: "She's so homorous, her stories about
everyday-life's and awkward situations are just incomparable. It's like a
good friend taking you be the hand and leading through her life."
That's why Wolfgang Hampel and four other German Betty Fans plan to
launch an extensive exhibition about Betty MacDonald, her life and her
work.
Originally they wanted to open the exhibit on February 7, 1983,
25th anniversary of Betty MacDonald's death. But the five friends didn't
manage to get enough exhibits together. "We're still looking for
pictures, photographs, letters - in short all sorts of personal
mementoes about Betty. Our exhibition has been planned for the last few
years and we have written zillions of letters and bought hundreds of
books, here in Germany, Europe and from the States," explains Wolfgang Hampel.They tried to get further information about their preferred
author from American publishing companies. "Some didn't answer and
others know less than we did already! It was like finding the different
pieces of a jigsaw-puzzle without knowing what it will look like in the
end."
Why all this activity?"We think that Betty MacDonald is such a
fascinating person that many people here should know more about her .
Apart from our endeavors to our exhibition together we've also been in
contact with publishers to convince them that a new edition of Nancy and
Plum would find its readers still today.
Betty MacDonald's readers come
from all ages and social groups," says Wolfgang Hampel. Of course he
and his friends know that Vashon is the Onions in the Stew Island and
they also know that Vashon is part of the Pacific Northwest and - more
specifically - of Puget Sound. So imagine their amusement when some
publishing firms told them that Vashon is somewhere up to Alaska.
Actually, Wolfgang Hampel knows quiete a lot about the Rock, though he's
never been here. All his information comes from Betty MacDonald's
Onions in the Stew. So he's got the idea of the terrific view of Mount Rainier, and he also knows about her coyness.
Wolfgang Hampel has a
pretty good impression about the house where Betty lived with her folks.
"What we dearly need for our exhibition are pictures of the Island,
books all sort of visuals to show people here in what a beautiful
scenery Betty lived. So people can understand that she simply had to
write books like that in such a fascinating rural enviroment.
Wolfgang
would be grateful for any help he could get from the Island. "Really,
the most substantial help came from Vashon so far. We got some great
personal impressions about Betty from Islanders who knew her."Wolfgang
is amazed about the friendliness and amount of help and encouragement
that reached him from the Rock. Still it's a long way until the
exhibition is ready.
Anyone with anything they'd like to send for the
planned exhibition can write to Wolfgang Hampel.
join our current Betty MacDonald fan club contest, please.
What happened to Betty MacDonald on October 30, 1938?
Send your answer, please and perhaps you'll be the lucky winner of several fascinating Betty MacDonald fan club items.
Deadline: October 31, 2015
Wolfgang Hampel's Betty MacDonald and Ma and Pa Kettle biography and Betty
MacDonald interviews have fans in 40 countries. I'm one of their many devoted fans.
Many Betty MacDonald - and Wolfgang Hampel fans are very interested in a Wolfgang Hampel CD and DVD with his
very funny poems and stories.
Mr. Tigerli is very busy around the World because of so many serious problems.
I totally agree that our unique Betty MacDonald fan club honor members are brillinat artists and writers.
Let's talk about great writers and poets Letizia Mancino, Hilde Domin and Betty MacDonald.
Betty
MacDonald fan Club honor member, artist and writer Letizia Mancino
shares her delightful story THE SECOND PARADISE.
Enjoy the brilliant translation by Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mary Holmes, please.
Thanks a million dearest Mary Holmes!
I'm one of Letizia's and Mary's many devoted fans.
Letizia Mancino sent this connecting piece to " The Second Paradise".
DEFIANT AS A COCK
Copyright 2011/2015 by Letizia Mancino
translated by Mary Holmes
All rights reserved
That
was how my friend Hilde Domin was, dear Betty! You would have liked her
so much. She had also been in America. At that time you were a famous
author but she was still unknown.
-Did she love cats like you do?
-Yes Betty, she sure did!! Otherwise how do you think she could have been a friend of mine?
-Oh Letizia, don’t boast! Hilde was famous!
-It’s all the same to me, Betty, whether a person is famous or not but that person must love animals
-Why was she as defiant as a cock?
-Well Betty, she was simply so!
-Like a pregnant woman in my “Egg and I”?
-No not so! Betty, Hilde was a whole farm!
- A farm, how was that?
- No Betty, Hilde was more! Almost a zoo! Even more. She was all the animals in the world!
-You loved her very much.
-As I love all animals.
You Betty, if I had known you, I would have loved you exactly so because you loved animals.
-But as defiant as a cock from my Bob-farm!
-Yes
and no! (Hilde really loved this double form of answer). Listen Betty ,
I’ll tell you a story about how Hilde was. You would certainly have
loved her.
I’ll call my story “The Second Paradise”.
THE SECOND PARADISE
Copyright 2011/2015 by Letizia Mancino
translated by Mary Holmes
All rights reserved
The Lord God, one day, met Adam in Paradise and saw him lying under a palm.
And God spoke to him: Adam, my son, are you happy, are you content with Paradise ?
Adam answered: Oh Lord, it is wonderful!
And God said: But I will create a second Paradise and give you a wife.
Adam answered: Oh Lord, that is wonderful!
And God said: I will create the wife according to your wishes.
And Adam stood under the palm and thought hard.
And God said: Adam, are you ready?
Adam
answered: My wife should be as lively as a bird but she should not fly.
She should swim like a goldfish but not be a fish….. She should be as
playful as a cat but not catch mice….. She should be as busy as an ant
but not so small.
And God said: So shall she be: Like a bird, a goldfish, a cat, an ant…
Adam answered: Oh Lord, that is wonderful, but she should be as faithful as a dog.
And God asked: Adam, have you finished?
Oh Lord, cried Adam. She should also be as delightful and gentle as a lamb and as defiant as a cock!
….She should be as curious as a monkey and as pampered as a lapdog.
And God said: So shall she be.
And Adam said: My wife should be as courageous as a lion and as headstrong as a goat…
And
God said: So, like a bird, a goldfish, a cat, an ant, a dog, a lamb, a
cock, a monkey, a lapdog, a lion, a goat… and slowly and surely he
wished to begin creating…
But Adam stretched himself under the palm and called:
Lord, Lord, she should be as adaptable as a chameleon but not creep on four feet.
She should have sparkling eyes like, like… real diamonds. She should be as fiery as a volcano
But … she should have crystal-clear thoughts like a mountain spring.
God, the Almighty, was speechless…
And Adam spoke: Also she should be as quick as lightening…
And God said: Man, have you finished????
No, said Adam! She should be as strong as a horse, as long living as an elephant but as light as a butterfly!
God
found Adam’s thoughts were good and said: So, bird, goldfish, cat, ant,
dog, lamb, cock, monkey, lapdog, lion, goat, chameleon, genuine
diamonds, volcano, mountain spring, lightening, horse, elephant….
butterfly…
God wished at last to begin creating her…
Lord, called Adam… she should be as stable as steel, but as sweet as three graceful women in one…
And God asked: Should she also be a poet?
Yes, called Adam from under the palm…
And God said: Adam have you finished?
Lord, I wish that, in the second Paradise I shall be one and doubled:
So God according to Adams last words created:
HILDE PALM DOMIN
Very best wishes
Letizia Mancino
Letizia Mancino is an outstanding writer and artist.
I know you will enjoy this very charming and witty story the same way I did!
Thanks a Million, dear Letiza Mancino! You made my day!
As you know I'm very interested in pets and excellent literature.
Betty MacDonald Fan Club founder Wolfgang Hampel is working on an Eva Vargas
biography. I'd love to know: Did Eva Vargas like pets and cats?
You can read my new story in Betty MacDonald Newsletter November.
Letizia Mancino is part of Wolfgang Hampel's new project 'Vita Magica'.
We got so many requests from fans from all over the world and have great info for you.
Wolfgang Hampel's stories and satirical poems will be published in several languages for his many fans from all over the world.
Don't miss Brad Craft's ' Grump ' please.
Have a nice Friday,
Pieter
Vita Magica
Betty MacDonald forum
Wolfgang Hampel - Wikipedia ( English )
Wolfgang Hampel - Wikipedia ( German )
Wolfgang Hampel - Monica Sone - Wikipedia ( English )
Wolfgang Hampel - Ma and Pa Kettle - Wikipedia ( English )
Wolfgang Hampel - Ma and Pa Kettle - Wikipedia ( French )
Wolfgang Hampel in Florida State University
Betty MacDonald fan club founder Wolfgang Hampel
Betty MacDonald fan club interviews on CD/DVD
Betty MacDonald fan club items
Betty MacDonald fan club items - comments
Betty MacDonald fan club - The Stove and I
Betty MacDonald fan club organizer Linde Lund
Mary Bard Jensen - and Betty MacDonald fan club fans,
I did receive the Betty MacDonald fan club CD the day before yesterday.
It sounds like the
interviewer, Wolfgang Hampel, Alison Bard Burnett and daughter Alison Beck were having a
hilarious time.
It was wonderful to hear them talking and it gives me an
idea of what talking to the entire Bard family must've been like.
Betty's voice was very feminine and she sounded like she would've been a
fun person to know.
I LOVE Betty's word pictures and how she
describes a setting or situation. The Kettles were certainly among the
funniest parts for me. I loved her description of Paw Kettle coming to
the table wearing a coatdress and manure-covered boots. I also loved her
description of Bob's conversation with Maw Kettle while Maw was
comfortably seated in the outhouse, reading the Sears, Roebuck
catalog. Betty is able to find humor in adversity. Also, I do think that
people can see their own families and people they know in her
characterizations.
My favorites are The Egg & I because her
writing was so excellent and fresh and Onions In the Stew because she
was happy then. I've just seen The Egg & I and 2 of the Kettle
movies. My mom has all of them and I borrowed hers. The Egg & I was
too idealized by Hollywood. Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray were
lovely actors, but way too perfect looking to be real life chicken
farmers. It was a fun family movie though. The Kettle movies are funny
but again, they are pretty sanitized by Hollywood. I watched the one
where Paw Kettle wins a brand new house for the family. It was
entertaining.
Thank you for inviting me to comment and for reading
through my ramblings.
Best wishes to you in your continued study of
Betty MacDonald and her writings.
You have done a fantastic job in
putting together all this information and I had a lot of fun reading it.
Now I will read it again and catch some of the parts I didn't retain
the first time!
Regards,
Lorinda
Betty MacDonald loved in Germany
Axel Schappei The Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber June 16, 1983
Go
into any ordinary German bookstore and ask for former Islander, Betty
MacDonald's paperbacks and you'll be handed - at least - three books:
Die Insel und ich ( Onions in the Stew ), Das Ei und ich ( The egg and I
) Betty kann alles (Anybody can do anything).
Scholars in the Pegasus
German courses on the Island may notice that the German titles of Betty
MacDonald's famous autobiographical novels have been translated
appropriatley.
Betty would like them. Betty MacDonald, who lived on Vashon Island, is tremendously popular in Germany. She once was one of
the most well known and widely read novelists in the United States. But
would you guess that more than two million paperbacks and hard-cover
books of Betty MacDonald have been published and sold in Germany during
the last 30 years?
Her bestseller The Egg and I reached about half a
million in July 1981. From March 1964 until October 1980, 107000 copies
of Anybody can do anything were sold in 12 editions. Onions in the Stew -
her novel about living on the Rock - sold 103000 copies from May 1964
until September 1980, also in 12 editions. "She is incredibly
successful, really, not only her novels. Her books for children like
Nancy and Plum or the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle-Stories still belong to the
most successful childrens' books after all those years," says Wolfgang Hampel, who is so convinced about Betty MacDonald.
He simply loves Betty
MacDonald and her books: "She's so homorous, her stories about
everyday-life's and awkward situations are just incomparable. It's like a
good friend taking you be the hand and leading through her life."
That's why Wolfgang Hampel and four other German Betty Fans plan to
launch an extensive exhibition about Betty MacDonald, her life and her
work.
Originally they wanted to open the exhibit on February 7, 1983,
25th anniversary of Betty MacDonald's death. But the five friends didn't
manage to get enough exhibits together. "We're still looking for
pictures, photographs, letters - in short all sorts of personal
mementoes about Betty. Our exhibition has been planned for the last few
years and we have written zillions of letters and bought hundreds of
books, here in Germany, Europe and from the States," explains Wolfgang Hampel.They tried to get further information about their preferred
author from American publishing companies. "Some didn't answer and
others know less than we did already! It was like finding the different
pieces of a jigsaw-puzzle without knowing what it will look like in the
end."
Why all this activity?"We think that Betty MacDonald is such a
fascinating person that many people here should know more about her .
Apart from our endeavors to our exhibition together we've also been in
contact with publishers to convince them that a new edition of Nancy and
Plum would find its readers still today.
Betty MacDonald's readers come
from all ages and social groups," says Wolfgang Hampel. Of course he
and his friends know that Vashon is the Onions in the Stew Island and
they also know that Vashon is part of the Pacific Northwest and - more
specifically - of Puget Sound. So imagine their amusement when some
publishing firms told them that Vashon is somewhere up to Alaska.
Actually, Wolfgang Hampel knows quiete a lot about the Rock, though he's
never been here. All his information comes from Betty MacDonald's
Onions in the Stew. So he's got the idea of the terrific view of Mount Rainier, and he also knows about her coyness.
Wolfgang Hampel has a
pretty good impression about the house where Betty lived with her folks.
"What we dearly need for our exhibition are pictures of the Island,
books all sort of visuals to show people here in what a beautiful
scenery Betty lived. So people can understand that she simply had to
write books like that in such a fascinating rural enviroment.
Wolfgang
would be grateful for any help he could get from the Island. "Really,
the most substantial help came from Vashon so far. We got some great
personal impressions about Betty from Islanders who knew her."Wolfgang
is amazed about the friendliness and amount of help and encouragement
that reached him from the Rock. Still it's a long way until the
exhibition is ready.
Anyone with anything they'd like to send for the
planned exhibition can write to Wolfgang Hampel.
Vita Magica
Betty MacDonald forum
Wolfgang Hampel - Wikipedia ( English )
Wolfgang Hampel - Wikipedia ( German )
Wolfgang Hampel - Monica Sone - Wikipedia ( English )
Wolfgang Hampel - Ma and Pa Kettle - Wikipedia ( English )
Wolfgang Hampel - Ma and Pa Kettle - Wikipedia ( French )
Wolfgang Hampel in Florida State University
Betty MacDonald fan club founder Wolfgang Hampel
Betty MacDonald fan club interviews on CD/DVD
Betty MacDonald fan club items
Betty MacDonald fan club items - comments
Betty MacDonald fan club - The Stove and I
Betty MacDonald fan club organizer Linde Lund
Dear Betty MacDonald Fan Club,
I enjoyed Wolfgang Hampel's books, interviews and stories so much.
I have never had any neighbors like the Kettles: thank God.
I
found ONIONS IN THE STEW completely by accident when I was in junior
high school (about 1960). I saw the book in the autobiography section,
and thought it was a cookbook that had been misfiled. I removed it from
the shelf to inspect it and, while glancing through it, became so
interested in the book's contents that I checked it out immediately.
As
soon as I finished ONIONS IN THE STEW, I found Betty's other books and
read them as well.
I was so disappointed that she wrote so few books. . .
I think ANYBODY CAN DO ANYTHING is probably my favorite.
What I liked
most about Betty's books is her honest assessments of her life
experiences and the humor she shows through adversity.
I can' t wait to read more.
Love,
Kathleen
Betty MacDonald loved in Germany
Axel Schappei The Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber June 16, 1983
Go
into any ordinary German bookstore and ask for former Islander, Betty
MacDonald's paperbacks and you'll be handed - at least - three books:
Die Insel und ich ( Onions in the Stew ), Das Ei und ich ( The egg and I
) Betty kann alles (Anybody can do anything).
Scholars in the Pegasus
German courses on the Island may notice that the German titles of Betty
MacDonald's famous autobiographical novels have been translated
appropriatley.
Betty would like them. Betty MacDonald, who lived on Vashon Island, is tremendously popular in Germany. She once was one of
the most well known and widely read novelists in the United States. But
would you guess that more than two million paperbacks and hard-cover
books of Betty MacDonald have been published and sold in Germany during
the last 30 years?
Her bestseller The Egg and I reached about half a
million in July 1981. From March 1964 until October 1980, 107000 copies
of Anybody can do anything were sold in 12 editions. Onions in the Stew -
her novel about living on the Rock - sold 103000 copies from May 1964
until September 1980, also in 12 editions. "She is incredibly
successful, really, not only her novels. Her books for children like
Nancy and Plum or the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle-Stories still belong to the
most successful childrens' books after all those years," says Wolfgang Hampel, who is so convinced about Betty MacDonald.
He simply loves Betty
MacDonald and her books: "She's so homorous, her stories about
everyday-life's and awkward situations are just incomparable. It's like a
good friend taking you be the hand and leading through her life."
That's why Wolfgang Hampel and four other German Betty Fans plan to
launch an extensive exhibition about Betty MacDonald, her life and her
work.
Originally they wanted to open the exhibit on February 7, 1983,
25th anniversary of Betty MacDonald's death. But the five friends didn't
manage to get enough exhibits together. "We're still looking for
pictures, photographs, letters - in short all sorts of personal
mementoes about Betty. Our exhibition has been planned for the last few
years and we have written zillions of letters and bought hundreds of
books, here in Germany, Europe and from the States," explains Wolfgang Hampel.They tried to get further information about their preferred
author from American publishing companies. "Some didn't answer and
others know less than we did already! It was like finding the different
pieces of a jigsaw-puzzle without knowing what it will look like in the
end."
Why all this activity?"We think that Betty MacDonald is such a
fascinating person that many people here should know more about her .
Apart from our endeavors to our exhibition together we've also been in
contact with publishers to convince them that a new edition of Nancy and
Plum would find its readers still today.
Betty MacDonald's readers come
from all ages and social groups," says Wolfgang Hampel. Of course he
and his friends know that Vashon is the Onions in the Stew Island and
they also know that Vashon is part of the Pacific Northwest and - more
specifically - of Puget Sound. So imagine their amusement when some
publishing firms told them that Vashon is somewhere up to Alaska.
Actually, Wolfgang Hampel knows quiete a lot about the Rock, though he's
never been here. All his information comes from Betty MacDonald's
Onions in the Stew. So he's got the idea of the terrific view of Mount Rainier, and he also knows about her coyness.
Wolfgang Hampel has a
pretty good impression about the house where Betty lived with her folks.
"What we dearly need for our exhibition are pictures of the Island,
books all sort of visuals to show people here in what a beautiful
scenery Betty lived. So people can understand that she simply had to
write books like that in such a fascinating rural enviroment.
Wolfgang
would be grateful for any help he could get from the Island. "Really,
the most substantial help came from Vashon so far. We got some great
personal impressions about Betty from Islanders who knew her."Wolfgang
is amazed about the friendliness and amount of help and encouragement
that reached him from the Rock. Still it's a long way until the
exhibition is ready.
Anyone with anything they'd like to send for the
planned exhibition can write to Wolfgang Hampel.
Vita Magica
Betty MacDonald forum
Wolfgang Hampel - Wikipedia ( English )
Wolfgang Hampel - Wikipedia ( German )
Wolfgang Hampel - Monica Sone - Wikipedia ( English )
Wolfgang Hampel - Ma and Pa Kettle - Wikipedia ( English )
Wolfgang Hampel - Ma and Pa Kettle - Wikipedia ( French )
Wolfgang Hampel in Florida State University
Betty MacDonald fan club founder Wolfgang Hampel
Betty MacDonald fan club interviews on CD/DVD
Betty MacDonald fan club items
Betty MacDonald fan club items - comments
Betty MacDonald fan club - The Stove and I
Betty MacDonald fan club organizer Linde Lund
Mary Bard Jensen - and Betty MacDonald fan club fans,
Ma and Pa Kettle were comic characters who first appeared in the novel
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald. She based them on farming neighbors in
Washington state, U.S.A.
In 1996 Betty MacDonald's Family had been
interviewed by journalist Wolfgang Hampel who is the author of The Kettles' Million Dollar Egg.
Betty MacDonald's youngest sister Alison Bard Burnett knew the real 'Kettles' very well and told the most interesting
stories about Betty's exciting experiences with them.
The Kettles' Million Dollar Egg and the interview are as funny as a Ma and Pa Kettle Movie.
This interview has been published on CD/DVD by Betty MacDonald
Fan Club in 2009.
Ma and Pa Kettle became the featured characters in a
series of popular, light comedic movies in the 1940s and 1950s. The
movies revolved around the absurd misadventures of the Kettle clan.
Pa (Franklin Kettle) (played by Percy Kilbride) is a gentle,
slow-speaking, slow-thinking and lazy man. His only talents appear to be
avoiding work and winning contests. Ma (Phoebe Kettle) (played by
Marjorie Main) is larger, raucous, more ambitious and smarter than Pa,
but not by much, and can easily be fooled. She is content with her role
as mother to a small army of children on their ramshackle farm. At the
end of the first film in the series, Pa Kettle wins a modern home that
the family moves into. As the series continued, various reasons were
devised to have the family relocate to the "old place", sometimes for
extended periods of time.
Much of the humor comes from the preposterous situations the Kettles
find themselves in, such as Pa being mistaken for a wealthy
industrialist or being jailed after he accidentally causes race horses
to eat feed laced with concrete. The Kettles first appeared in
supporting roles in The Egg and I, starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette
Colbert. After that they starred in a series of their own movies. Main
was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1948 for her role in The Egg and I.
Main and Kilbride also appeared together
in the 1948 Universal film Feudin', Fussin' And A-Fightin'. The movie
also starred Donald O'Connor and Joe Besser. Many have mistaken this
movie to be a Kettle film. Main played Maribel Matthews and Kilbride
played Billy Caswell.
Kilbride retired after making Ma and Pa Kettle at
Waikiki. The Pa Kettle character did not appear in The Kettles in the
Ozarks. Arthur Hunnicutt played Pa's brother Sedgewick Kettle in that
movie and in The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm, the last Kettle movie,
Parker Fennelly played Pa Kettle.
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Wolfgang Hampel's Betty MacDonald and Ma and Pa Kettle biography and Betty
MacDonald interviews have fans in 40 countries. I'm one of their many devoted fans.
Many Betty MacDonald - and Wolfgang Hampel fans are very interested in a Wolfgang Hampel CD and DVD with his
very funny poems and stories.
Mr. Tigerli is very busy around the World because of so many serious problems.
I totally agree that our unique Betty MacDonald fan club honor members are brillinat artists and writers.
Let's talk about great writers and poets Letizia Mancino, Hilde Domin and Betty MacDonald.
Betty
MacDonald fan Club honor member, artist and writer Letizia Mancino
shares her delightful story THE SECOND PARADISE.
Enjoy the brilliant translation by Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mary Holmes, please.
Thanks a million dearest Mary Holmes!
I'm one of Letizia's and Mary's many devoted fans.
Letizia Mancino sent this connecting piece to " The Second Paradise".
DEFIANT AS A COCK
Copyright 2011/2015 by Letizia Mancino
translated by Mary Holmes
All rights reserved
That
was how my friend Hilde Domin was, dear Betty! You would have liked her
so much. She had also been in America. At that time you were a famous
author but she was still unknown.
-Did she love cats like you do?
-Yes Betty, she sure did!! Otherwise how do you think she could have been a friend of mine?
-Oh Letizia, don’t boast! Hilde was famous!
-It’s all the same to me, Betty, whether a person is famous or not but that person must love animals
-Why was she as defiant as a cock?
-Well Betty, she was simply so!
-Like a pregnant woman in my “Egg and I”?
-No not so! Betty, Hilde was a whole farm!
- A farm, how was that?
- No Betty, Hilde was more! Almost a zoo! Even more. She was all the animals in the world!
-You loved her very much.
-As I love all animals.
You Betty, if I had known you, I would have loved you exactly so because you loved animals.
-But as defiant as a cock from my Bob-farm!
-Yes
and no! (Hilde really loved this double form of answer). Listen Betty ,
I’ll tell you a story about how Hilde was. You would certainly have
loved her.
I’ll call my story “The Second Paradise”.
THE SECOND PARADISE
Copyright 2011/2015 by Letizia Mancino
translated by Mary Holmes
All rights reserved
The Lord God, one day, met Adam in Paradise and saw him lying under a palm.
And God spoke to him: Adam, my son, are you happy, are you content with Paradise ?
Adam answered: Oh Lord, it is wonderful!
And God said: But I will create a second Paradise and give you a wife.
Adam answered: Oh Lord, that is wonderful!
And God said: I will create the wife according to your wishes.
And Adam stood under the palm and thought hard.
And God said: Adam, are you ready?
Adam
answered: My wife should be as lively as a bird but she should not fly.
She should swim like a goldfish but not be a fish….. She should be as
playful as a cat but not catch mice….. She should be as busy as an ant
but not so small.
And God said: So shall she be: Like a bird, a goldfish, a cat, an ant…
Adam answered: Oh Lord, that is wonderful, but she should be as faithful as a dog.
And God asked: Adam, have you finished?
Oh Lord, cried Adam. She should also be as delightful and gentle as a lamb and as defiant as a cock!
….She should be as curious as a monkey and as pampered as a lapdog.
And God said: So shall she be.
And Adam said: My wife should be as courageous as a lion and as headstrong as a goat…
And
God said: So, like a bird, a goldfish, a cat, an ant, a dog, a lamb, a
cock, a monkey, a lapdog, a lion, a goat… and slowly and surely he
wished to begin creating…
But Adam stretched himself under the palm and called:
Lord, Lord, she should be as adaptable as a chameleon but not creep on four feet.
She should have sparkling eyes like, like… real diamonds. She should be as fiery as a volcano
But … she should have crystal-clear thoughts like a mountain spring.
God, the Almighty, was speechless…
And Adam spoke: Also she should be as quick as lightening…
And God said: Man, have you finished????
No, said Adam! She should be as strong as a horse, as long living as an elephant but as light as a butterfly!
God
found Adam’s thoughts were good and said: So, bird, goldfish, cat, ant,
dog, lamb, cock, monkey, lapdog, lion, goat, chameleon, genuine
diamonds, volcano, mountain spring, lightening, horse, elephant….
butterfly…
God wished at last to begin creating her…
Lord, called Adam… she should be as stable as steel, but as sweet as three graceful women in one…
And God asked: Should she also be a poet?
Yes, called Adam from under the palm…
And God said: Adam have you finished?
Lord, I wish that, in the second Paradise I shall be one and doubled:
So God according to Adams last words created:
HILDE PALM DOMIN
Very best wishes
Letizia Mancino
Letizia Mancino is an outstanding writer and artist.
I know you will enjoy this very charming and witty story the same way I did!
Thanks a Million, dear Letiza Mancino! You made my day!
As you know I'm very interested in pets and excellent literature.
Betty MacDonald Fan Club founder Wolfgang Hampel is working on an Eva Vargas
biography. I'd love to know: Did Eva Vargas like pets and cats?
You can read my new story in Betty MacDonald Newsletter November.
Letizia Mancino is part of Wolfgang Hampel's new project 'Vita Magica'.
We got so many requests from fans from all over the world and have great info for you.
Wolfgang Hampel's stories and satirical poems will be published in several languages for his many fans from all over the world.
Don't miss Brad Craft's ' Grump ' please.
Wishing you a great Monday,
Pieter
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Mary Bard Jensen - and Betty MacDonald fan club fans,
Sorry to take so long getting back to you--I ended
up buying a new printer to finish the job of downloading...Wow, I am
impressed! You really worked hard to gather all this stuff.
After fifty
years it must have been quite a quest! Good for you. For years we have
all had questions and you have followed through with trying to find
answers.
My sister (I took her ALL the pages two days ago) was the most
pleased I have seen her in YEARS. She says she is STILLL reading it. So,
can we expect more to come ? ? Another delighted fan, Caroline Thanks
again.
What surprised me the most after reading The Kettles' Million Dollar Egg, The Egg and Betty....probably the lawsuit (I had not
ever hear about that); maybe the fact that so many people believed it
was a true story (it seems to me that it was catalogued and shelved as
FICTION in libraries at one time)...maybe 'faction' would be
appropriate...
Why do I think Bob didn't appear? I've always wondered
where he went..I wonder how Don MacDonald liked being Mr. Betty or "BOB"
....in some people's minds.
I guess I read the first E & I in the 1950's -- I
remember Onions in the Stew being, I think, a Reader's Digest book?? or
maybe Book of the Month...living in a small town with no bookstores, my
mom belonged to book clubs & that would be where I began reading
about Betty. Anyway, we were a reading household..I guess I would be 12
or 13 ??
My sister is the most devoted fan--re-reads Betty books ...she
was in Seattle a few years back when her husband needed medical
treatment at hospital there...she went to all the second hand bookstores
but said copies were impossible to find. I have said for about 25 years
that someone should do what you people have done...so many so curious
as to other details of her life--Betty I mean...Sad that she died so
young--was she not still in her 40s?? So much talent and so long
remembered.
My experiences with chickens were at my grandmother's
farm as a child. . Hard work & little reward. Of course in Betty
& Bob's case it was the Depression and people were scrambling just
to get the basics. Certainly in our family--pioneers in USA and
Canada...one of my uncle's lived a life very like Egg & I in a
mountain valley a few hours from here--logging with horses, growing
cherries for sale, etc. His wife was a very hardworking lady -- she
probably enjoyed the E & I too at the time it was published. He wrote a
book--kind of a memoir which his children had published in limited
edition.
Much of it probably libellous...but fun. Books are like
that--even his own brothers differed on what was true and false...it is
all perception, I think.
I have been to the Seattle, Portland (Ore.)
area and lived on Vancouver Island in several different towns....yes, it
is all very beautiful. I never saw a Geoduck but certainly we dug our
own clams, had free prawns, bought huge fish from the Indians (illegally
even then) and this was in the 1960's...
My last trip to Vancouver
Island was in the 1990's I think...if one travels to any of the more
remote communities (usually accessible by ferry or only plane/boat even
now) you will find much unchanged. It is reassuring in many ways.
So the Egg and I life still exists out here in the wilds of Canada....
Best wishes, Caroline
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Betty MacDonald Fan Club proudly presents:
The
amazing, very witty, charming, intelligent story written by our
brilliant Betty MacDonald Fan Club Honor Member - artist and writer
Letizia Mancino.
WHEN YOU DREAM, DREAM BIG
Copyright 2011/2015 by Letizia Mancino
All rights reserved
Translated by D. Tsiaprakas
Betty,
I love you! Your books „Anybody can do anything“ and „Onions in the
Stew“ are really outstanding! I take them into my hand, and at a stone's
throw I am right away in America ! Columbus and the egg: The great
discovery!
Your bestseller „The Egg and I“ the greatest
discovery. And you and I! I know America: It's true what you are
writing: That's America: Absolutely right! No, even to the least detail!
The landscape and the passion: Do you know the country where pistols
blossom? Brava, Betty, you are describing the Americans vividly,
genuinely, insufferably, brushed upon paper. If I like to read your
works? To read doesn't even express it! I can even hear and see
everything: Nature, culture, subculture.
America has almost
remained unchanged! O those cool Americans! Calculating, stockmarket,
Wall Street, the financial crisis (even back in 1930), the gamblers, the
bankruptcy of companies! The swarming of dodgers and cheaters. People
left without money. Dispair und hunger! A terrible „Worst Case“ (when I
knew but little English I thought it is sausage with cheese).
Still
how impressive is the ability to adaptone self of the Americans: They
know how to enjoy life, acrobats of survival! In the twinkle of an eye
they achieved to adapt themselves and effect the work of pioneers: In
the morning you are a cleaningwoman, in the evening a brothel woman! No
problem!
„The insufficient, here it's becoming an event; The
indescribable, here it's done;“ Mary Bard Jensen, your sister, was the
treasure trove of procuring work: My word, what a power woman with
unlimited imagination! She has recommended you everywhere: Betty can do
everything, also write novels! Go ahead, sister, hurry up! The editor
wants to see your manuscripts! Up to that point you had not written a
single line! Wow! And if still everything goes wrong? No problem: When
you dream, dream big!
Just look, you have become famous.The Egg
and I You know that, Betty? I'll slip into „The Egg and I“ and come and
be your guest! I want to get to know your chickens. I hate chickens!
I'm a chickens slave from North America! O Betty, without these damned
animals, no chance of you becoming famous! „The Egg and I“ you would
never have written! How many readers you have made happy!
Your
book is so amusing! Your witty fine (almost nasty) remarks about your
family members and roundabout neighbours made me laugh so much! You have
been born into a special family: Comfort was not desired: I can't but
be amazed: What did your father say to your mother? After tomorrow I am
going to work elsewhere: Thousands of miles away...He sent her a
telegram: LEAVING FOR TWO YEARS ON THURSDAY FOR MEXICO CITY STOP GET
READY IF YOU WANT TO COME ALONG – That was on Monday. Mother wired back:
SHALL BE READY, and so she was.That's America! Improvisation, change,
adventure. You show no weakness: Let's go! Your descriptions, Betty,
about the tremendous happenings in nature have deeply frightened me.
Continent
America, I'm terrified by you! I feel so small and threatened like a
tiny fly before an enormous flyswatter! Your novel is very many-sided!
The reader may use it even as a cook book! „The Egg and I“ starts
straight away with a recipe: „Next to the wisdom that lamb meat doesn't
taste good unless it has been roasted with garlic“. Do you enjoy the
American food?
O Betty, it's too fatty for me and I hate garlic!
(Betty is presently cooking lunch for Bob. She's continually talking to
„STOVE“: STOVE is Bob's rival; in the beginning I thought it was being
himself). She turns round and says: Well, so no garlic for you. No lamb
either, Betty. I don't eat any meat! I'd actually prefer only fried
eggs. Betty, let me make them myself. Then you try it!
Blow!
„STOVE“ out of order! I don't succeed in turning it on! Damned! It's got
more of a mind of its own than „STOVE“ of my friend, Hilde Domin! Bob's
coming! He must eat directly! „Men eat anything, the swines! Says your
grandmother Gammy“. Is it true? Do you like my chickens? Bob asked me
without introducing himself. Yes, Bob (rude) I love them! I'm
vegetarian. Do you want to clean the henhouse with me tomorrow? A,
you're always getting up so early at four o'clock! Bob, that's not a job
for me! He looked at me disdainfully! A Roman cissy! You need a
reeducation at once! Help, Bob's attacking me! I rather change the novel
immediately and move to the „Island“!
Mary Bard Jensen - and Betty MacDonald fan club fans
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm (1954) is my favourite book in Betty MacDonald's comic series about the expert child-curative Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
The series begins with Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and continues with Mrs.
Piggle-Wiggle's Magic and Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
None of the books
can be considered novels, but episodic problems with children and their
exasperated parents in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's neighbourhood, and the
always winning solution provided by Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm (illustrated by Maurice Sendak) has Mrs.
Piggle-Wiggle move from her "upside-down house" to a farm, bought with
her husband's pirate treasure found at the end of the last book.
Unlike
that book, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle uses no magic for her cures; the farm
itself does the most good: fresh air, animals, and responsibility are
what children seem to really need.
In 1996
Betty MacDonald's Family had been interviewed by Betty MacDonald fan club founder - author Wolfgang
Hampel.
Especially Betty MacDonald's youngest sister Alison Bard Burnett had a
perfect memory and told very funny stories about the original Mrs.
Piggle-Wiggle Stories.
Alison Bard Burnett and her family has been mentioned in
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic.
Betty MacDonald fan club newsletter October is
available with many more info on 70th anniversary of
The Egg and I, new fascinating info on Dorita Hess and a Betty MacDonald quiz.
Join our current Betty MacDonald fan club contest, please.
What happened to Betty MacDonald on October 30, 1938?
Send your answer, please and perhaps you'll be the lucky winner of several fascinating Betty MacDonald fan club items.
Deadline: October 31, 2015
We are looking for signed or dedicated first editions in great condition with dust jackets by Betty MacDonald and Mary Bard Jensen for our fans.
Betty MacDonald Memorial Award Winner Wolfgang Hampel and Betty MacDonald fan club research team are working on an updated Betty MacDonald biography and new Betty MacDonald documentary.
Dearest new Betty MacDonald fan club fans you'll receive a very important message by Betty
MacDonald fan club event team.
This
message includes a very nice Betty MacDonald fan club surprise and many
info on our current Betty MacDonald fan club projects.
Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli and our 'Italian Betty MacDonald' - Betty MacDonald fan club honor member author and artist Letizia Mancino belong to the most popular Betty MacDonald fan club teams in our history.
Their many devoted fans are waiting for a new Mr. Tigerli adventure.
Letizia Mancino's magical Betty MacDonald Gallery is a special gift for our Betty MacDonald fan club fans.
Don't miss Brad Craft's ' I've been lifted ', please.
Have a funny Sunday,
Martin
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Betty MacDonald fan club interviews on CD/DVD
Betty MacDonald fan club items
Betty MacDonald fan club items - comments
Betty MacDonald fan club - The Stove and I
Betty MacDonald fan club organizer Linde Lund
Betty MacDonald Fan Club proudly presents:
The
amazing, very witty, charming, intelligent story written by our
brilliant Betty MacDonald Fan Club Honor Member - artist and writer
Letizia Mancino.
WHEN YOU DREAM, DREAM BIG
Copyright 2011/2015 by Letizia Mancino
All rights reserved
Translated by D. Tsiaprakas
Betty,
I love you! Your books „Anybody can do anything“ and „Onions in the
Stew“ are really outstanding! I take them into my hand, and at a stone's
throw I am right away in America ! Columbus and the egg: The great
discovery!
Your bestseller „The Egg and I“ the greatest
discovery. And you and I! I know America: It's true what you are
writing: That's America: Absolutely right! No, even to the least detail!
The landscape and the passion: Do you know the country where pistols
blossom? Brava, Betty, you are describing the Americans vividly,
genuinely, insufferably, brushed upon paper. If I like to read your
works? To read doesn't even express it! I can even hear and see
everything: Nature, culture, subculture.
America has almost
remained unchanged! O those cool Americans! Calculating, stockmarket,
Wall Street, the financial crisis (even back in 1930), the gamblers, the
bankruptcy of companies! The swarming of dodgers and cheaters. People
left without money. Dispair und hunger! A terrible „Worst Case“ (when I
knew but little English I thought it is sausage with cheese).
Still
how impressive is the ability to adaptone self of the Americans: They
know how to enjoy life, acrobats of survival! In the twinkle of an eye
they achieved to adapt themselves and effect the work of pioneers: In
the morning you are a cleaningwoman, in the evening a brothel woman! No
problem!
„The insufficient, here it's becoming an event; The
indescribable, here it's done;“ Mary Bard Jensen, your sister, was the
treasure trove of procuring work: My word, what a power woman with
unlimited imagination! She has recommended you everywhere: Betty can do
everything, also write novels! Go ahead, sister, hurry up! The editor
wants to see your manuscripts! Up to that point you had not written a
single line! Wow! And if still everything goes wrong? No problem: When
you dream, dream big!
Just look, you have become famous.The Egg
and I You know that, Betty? I'll slip into „The Egg and I“ and come and
be your guest! I want to get to know your chickens. I hate chickens!
I'm a chickens slave from North America! O Betty, without these damned
animals, no chance of you becoming famous! „The Egg and I“ you would
never have written! How many readers you have made happy!
Your
book is so amusing! Your witty fine (almost nasty) remarks about your
family members and roundabout neighbours made me laugh so much! You have
been born into a special family: Comfort was not desired: I can't but
be amazed: What did your father say to your mother? After tomorrow I am
going to work elsewhere: Thousands of miles away...He sent her a
telegram: LEAVING FOR TWO YEARS ON THURSDAY FOR MEXICO CITY STOP GET
READY IF YOU WANT TO COME ALONG – That was on Monday. Mother wired back:
SHALL BE READY, and so she was.That's America! Improvisation, change,
adventure. You show no weakness: Let's go! Your descriptions, Betty,
about the tremendous happenings in nature have deeply frightened me.
Continent
America, I'm terrified by you! I feel so small and threatened like a
tiny fly before an enormous flyswatter! Your novel is very many-sided!
The reader may use it even as a cook book! „The Egg and I“ starts
straight away with a recipe: „Next to the wisdom that lamb meat doesn't
taste good unless it has been roasted with garlic“. Do you enjoy the
American food?
O Betty, it's too fatty for me and I hate garlic!
(Betty is presently cooking lunch for Bob. She's continually talking to
„STOVE“: STOVE is Bob's rival; in the beginning I thought it was being
himself). She turns round and says: Well, so no garlic for you. No lamb
either, Betty. I don't eat any meat! I'd actually prefer only fried
eggs. Betty, let me make them myself. Then you try it!
Blow!
„STOVE“ out of order! I don't succeed in turning it on! Damned! It's got
more of a mind of its own than „STOVE“ of my friend, Hilde Domin! Bob's
coming! He must eat directly! „Men eat anything, the swines! Says your
grandmother Gammy“. Is it true? Do you like my chickens? Bob asked me
without introducing himself. Yes, Bob (rude) I love them! I'm
vegetarian. Do you want to clean the henhouse with me tomorrow? A,
you're always getting up so early at four o'clock! Bob, that's not a job
for me! He looked at me disdainfully! A Roman cissy! You need a
reeducation at once! Help, Bob's attacking me! I rather change the novel
immediately and move to the „Island“!
