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Where’s Frank?

by Lloyd Philip Johnson
Where’s Frank?

“Where’s Frank” piqued enthusiasm and high interest when first circulated as a short version to a group of interested people. The true story is based on the recent finding of Scoutmaster Curtiss Gilbert’s journal of an improbable Boy Scout trip of 10,000 miles in the back of a fruit truck post-WWII. It started in Yakima, Washington 70 years ago and now includes the memories of the seven surviving Scouts.

What made Gilbert so unusual to take on a project impossible today with its risks and adventures—around the entire continental United States? He released young teens to explore New York City on their own. How and why would he leave boys behind, far from home, to have to catch up? What happened to them? How about the inevitable crazy antics, accidents, injuries and truck problems? What really occurred to the boys in the truck and their leader? And how did these long-ago experiences affect those of us who live to tell the stories of our adventure—now in this protective era of risk-averse child raising.

 

Pages: 136
Pub Date: 05-01-2016
Softcover: 12.95 978-1-63393-239-5
Hardcover: 21.95 978-1-63393-241-8
Ebook: 4.99 978-1-63393-240-1

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The reviews are in…

  • “I just got off the truck after a “reading ride” across America with a wild bunch of Boy Scouts. This adventure should be made into a movie!”


    —Susan Richmond, Inklings Bookshop in YAKIMA, WA

  • "What parents would willingly send off their teenage son on a six-week tour with little apparent concern for what we now expect in terms of safety and with no constant contact via cell phones? Where’s Frank is an amazing and enjoyable ‘read’.”


    — John A. Baule, Director, Yakima Valley Museum

Lloyd Johnson is the author of Living Stones, Cry of Hope and Uprooting the Olive Tree, published by Köehler Books in 2013 to 2016. He is a retired surgeon who turned to fiction writing to share his special interest in the Middle East. Johnson is a member of a Seattle writing group, and blogs regularly on Israel and Palestine. He is a clinical professor emeritus at the University of Washington in the Department of Surgery, fellow in the American College of Surgeons, and past president of the Seattle Surgical Society. He authored 26 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and texts. Johnson has worked and traveled extensively overseas, including Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and served for six years as volunteer executive director and board member of a humanitarian NGO in Central Asia. The author lives with his wife Marianne in Edmonds, Washington where they enjoy their adult children and grandchildren.

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