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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Dorothy Bremer Kohler, memoirist
Description: The cover of Dorothy Bremer Kohler’s book depicts the farmhouse in Gilboa — her Shangri-La, where she was raised — painted by her granddaughter, Jacklyn Kohler. Kohler, who is 89, wrote the stories of her life as part of a memoir group at the Voorheesville Public Library under the tutelage of Dennis Sullivan, who is also an Enterprise columnist. Kohler will read from her book and sign copies at the library on Sunday, Sept. 15, at 2 p.m. Although Kohler’s stories are firmly rooted with details of a particular time and place — first, Astoria in Queens where her father, from Germany, drove a horse-pu...