by Gary Koenig | Apr 14, 2025 | Writing
Antonio, a 19-year-old immigrant’s son, aspires to be a U.S. lawman by signing on as an Expo security guard in 1898. The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition was built in Omaha along the Missouri River. Inventions were revealed and opportunities promoted by...
by Gary Koenig | Sep 22, 2022 | Writing
Sheelytown is a historical fiction released in September 2022. Based on true events, it tells of one Polish girl’s life as she struggles to survive and build a family in Sheelytown, an infamous ethnic town within the city of Omaha in the early 1900s…...
by Gary Koenig | Oct 7, 2020 | Writing
You are welcome to check out my Facebook Author Page. It helps explain where I got the inspiration for writing about my grandmother’s life at the turn of the 20th Century and World War I for The Commandant’s Daughter. Charlotte Wichmann was her name and...
by Gary Koenig | Jul 27, 2020 | Writing
In fourth grade, I was nine years old. It was a traumatic year since I had to walk one mile to school with my younger brother going to kindergarten. Why? I asked. We lived across the street from St. Bernard’s School. That’s where I had been going to school...
by Gary Koenig | May 6, 2020 | Writing
You don’t have to be very old for a boy to realize he’s walking into an embarrassing situation. Even though we lived across the street from the Catholic grade school, they didn’t have Kindergarten. OK, so maybe another church or school. I could live with that. But...
by Gary Koenig | Jun 5, 2019 | Writing
Charlotte Wichmann, a Prussian Commandant’s Daughter, looks for romance in the social circles of 20th Century Europe. Unfulfilled with life, Charlotte joins her father and brother in World War I. Caring for soldiers in near-death situations as a nurse, she holds...
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