Hooker — A Family Saga

Hooker — A Family Saga

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Hooker — A Family Saga episodes

  • A Letter to Tommy
    ## A Letter to Tommy
    In her own voice: Sandra's letter to her husband, Tommy Alvin Hooker (1944-2004) — his last day, his last words, and the message he made sure to leave for his two sons. From the Hooker family's own record.
    4 min
  • The Vine-Keeper's Crossing
    ## The Vine-Keeper's Crossing
    The German root of the Hooker line: Maria Eva Weingartner (1800-1871), mother of Leopold Hooker. Her story set within the great German migration of the 1840s-50s — Bremen to Galveston to Texas — with documented facts as the spine and the gaps reconstructed as the well-founded likely. From the Hooker family's own record.
    5 min

About Hooker — A Family Saga

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One family line, told the Michener way. Harlan traces the Hooker line through America — real records and researched history, with honest narrative reconstruction where the record falls silent.