Retired civil engineer and Winthrop resident John Russell “Russ” Podmayer certainly never imagined he would write a hefty historical novel, but his debut work, Domine, released this spring by Methow Press, came pounding at his door courtesy of his wife Kathy’s ancestor Johannes Polhemius.
Polhemius never dreamed he would help establish frontier communities in Brazil and New Amsterdam, but Russ and Johannes share this drive: all they wanted to do was serve God.
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