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Unconditional Satisfaction GuaranteeNo Shipping Fees Above 302 Months to Decide. Returns Simplified.Based in part on a 100-year-old family journal, Rosemary Wells brings to life a story that the diarys fragile pages tell. Its the story of a wooden rocking chair handmade in about 1825 by her great-great-grandfather, an immigrant Jewish boy who made his way to America from Germany in the early 1800s.
In 1807, Sam Siegbert is born in southern Germany. Sams favorite pastime is carpentry, much to his fathers displeasure. His mother says he has a gift from God in his hands. After moving to America, he builds a wooden chair with the wordWILLKOMMENon the back. The chairs back panel was later marked withwelcomes by four generations of the family in four different languages.
After the family lost track of the old chair, the author created a new life for it among new owners from other corners of the world. All the families who loved the chair came to America, escaping religious conformity, natural disasters, tyrannies, war, and superstition. In its lifetime, the rocking chair, with its earliest wordWILLKOMMEN,stood for openness, hospitality, and acceptance to all who owned it or rocked safely in its embrace.
