Love, Louisa: Holiday Letters to the Wheatland Schneider Diaspora

Love, Louisa: Holiday Letters to the Wheatland Schneider DiasporaFor decades, K. Louisa Schneider of Wheatland, Iowa has served as historian of Johan Franz and Catherine Potts Schneider's Wunderthausen immigrant family. Each year Louisa writes a holiday Christmas letter chronicling activities of the Schneider tribe over the last year. Now with Louisa in her mid 80s, the Iowa Czech naive artist Hanpo (also with a Wheatland connection) has perused some of the more recent letters and responded to passages with his

For decades, K. Louisa Schneider of Wheatland, Iowa has served as historian of Johan Franz and Catherine Potts Schneider's Wunderthausen immigrant family. Each year Louisa writes a holiday Christmas letter chronicling activities of the Schneider tribe over the last year. Now with Louisa in her mid-80s, the Iowa-Czech naive artist Hanpo (also with a Wheatland connection) has perused some of the more recent letters and responded to passages with his typical bright, invigorating, and playful paintings that so charm the world. "Love, Louisa" will be of interest to any one who delights in keeping up on their own family's activities and who enjoys the times during the year when family can gather in person or by letter, email or the like.