The Gift of Laughter is now available in Canada at the following URL:
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/1542487609.
In the States the URL:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1542487609
A click on a link will take you to a page with a description of the book as well as a “look inside” feature that allows you to leaf-through and read quite a few pages.
Heritage 
Can’t wait to get your book, Loretta! It’s ordered! all best, kathie bergman
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Wonderful. I’m delighted you want to read it.
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My name is Norain Baldwin. My grandfather was Henry D Zimmerman. He died shortly after I was out of high school and a year after my father died so I never knew about his family. I have been thrilled to read about his parents.
In one place you mentioned that you didn’t know the name of the ship they sailed over to North America in. It was the Adria/Narva/Khazan. Originally named the Adria, the ship was renamed in 1905 when she was sold to the Russian Navy. In 1906,she went to the Russian Volunteer Fleet and was renamed Khazan. On April 19,1906 she went aground near Colombo,Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and was wrecked. The ship could accommodate 20-first and 1,100-third class passengers. ( I received this information from the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax,NS.)
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Norain, thank you so much for this information, and thank you for taking time to write this up and send it to me. I’m glad this book found you.
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