Relative's letter inspires novel for SH alum
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AUTHOR Cathy Hamilton holds her novel, "Victoria's War," during the book's launch at Annie Bloom's Books in Portland.
It's not often that a single letter from a relative inspires a book, let alone changes the course of one's life.
Catherine A. Ponzoha Hamilton, daughter of longtime local residents Joe and Mickey Ponzoha, was a practicing psychotherapist and a freelance writer when, in late 1996, she got her hands on a letter from a long-lost Polish cousin named Katherine Graczyk.
Originally sent to Hamilton's Aunt Mary in Longview, Wash. a few years earlier, the letter contained a written introduction and a cassette tape detailing Graczyk's kidnapping during World War II.
"Listening to this recording of...
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