VIOLETA POWELL – My Life of Travel & Adventure

I was born in 1941 in Talca, Chile, a prosperous, temperate farming region. I was the youngest of three and grew up in a house run by a General, not my father. No, it was my mother. She was the daughter of a French mining engineer who believed that daughters should...

LIFE ON THE RANGE – by Anna-Louise Fitzgerald

Resident Life, Women of Southminster

Would you believe in 1958-1959, at age 17, I won first place in the SC State Women’s Diving Championship Competitions for the National Swimmers Association on the 3-meter boards?! In public pools, that was the 10’ high dive! I later married my husband who...

PLOWING THE EARTH UNDER MY FEET – Writer Mary Kratt shares the inspiration for her books.

Women of Southminster

During college I worked in Yellowstone Park for two memorable summers whichinalterably changed my life. I had grown up in the wooded rural South butsomething about the West, that sky, the far spaces, vastly expanded my horizons. Nevertheless, since then, I have been...

VIOLETA POWELL – My Life of Travel & Adventure

LIFE ON THE RANGE – by Anna-Louise Fitzgerald

PLOWING THE EARTH UNDER MY FEET – Writer Mary Kratt shares the inspiration for her books.

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