Tag: Who Is Ruth Hummel

  • Traveling China In 1917 –  A Woman Traveling Alone (Ruth Hummel)

    Traveling China In 1917 – A Woman Traveling Alone (Ruth Hummel)

    Ruth Bookwalter Hummel lived in China with her husband Arthur Hummel in 1917; in this letter to her sister, she describes a journey she took to travel from the remote area of Fenyang, Shanxi, China, to Beijing.  In 1917 this journey took about a week as she traveled over some very rough roads; today, the…