“Nineteen years old, married six months to a dairy farmer, and five months pregnant, I was hiding in a feed room, as a cow was being stabbed with a pitchfork. The blood was running in rivulets down her legs, making puddles around her... Read More

“You can get…anything you want…at Alice’s Restaurant.” Those coming of age in the late 1960s probably remember folksinger Arlo Guthrie’s eighteen-minute tune relating his Thanksgiving 1965 arrest for littering in a small... Read More

The author is describing a conversation between her-self and another mother on the first day of school vacation. Her friend, Marilyn: “‘It’s only been four hours. What am I going to do for the next eight weeks?’ ‘Have you tried... Read More

When narrator Frederick Quist phones his recently deceased father’s home, Quist, “half expecting him to answer the phone” gets Isabel instead, “his fourth and last wife, by whom he had had four girls in a vain attempt to replace... Read More

For her first visit to Japan nearly two years ago, this Colorado author chose to follow the route taken by Isabella Lucy Bird, well-known nineteenth century British adventure writer. It seemed only fitting. Kaye, who first became... Read More

When Clyde Miller asked Heather Ross to marry him in 1960, he also asked her if she would be able to live with him in the secluded woods of one of North Carolina’s state parks. Miller was a park ranger who went where the job took him.... Read More

When she was thirty-four years old, the author bought her first house. The year was 1924, so a lone female purchasing a home was somewhat novel in itself. What made it more remarkable was the fact that Hathaway was someone labeled... Read More

In the late 1920s, a Blackfoot Indian chief from Montana caused a sensation in New York society’s upper-echelon. The dark, ruggedly handsome man who spoke flawless English was a celebrity in his own right—West Point man, World War I... Read More