Retired history teacher Marc Blau shares stories from Letters to Homefront Magazine: A Love Story Between a Community and Its WWII Soldiers is a book that will take you back to a time in America when community and country were on the top of every Americans list. The book is a labor of love that took 3 years to research and write. It is one of the best WWII letters books ever written. Homefront Magazine was written and published in the Slate Belt and a copy was mailed to every Slate Belt soldier wherever they were stationed throughout the world, a uniquely one-of-a-kind morale booster in the nation. The authors from the Slate Belt Heritage Center, a 9-room museum located in Bangor, Pa., read, scanned and summarized over 3200 letters sent home by soldiers. The book is comprised of these letters featuring the actual letter in the soldier's own words.

     Marc Blau, a lifelong resident of the Slate Belt, taught Social Studies in the Bangor School District for more than three decades, where he was department chair, coach for basketball and tennis, and active in Drug and Alcohol Prevention Programs. He is a board member and officer of the Slate Belt Heritage Center; speaker on the Holocaust & WWII Homefront Project; co-author of the Heritage Tour Map; and co-author of 3 books: A Miracle Happened Here, Letters to Homefront Magazine, and Textile Mills of the Slate Belt.