In the Shadow of Her Grace

This book is about the remarkable courage of a woman who never married, finding in a woman's world the dignity and grace of a life to which she felt she owed "something higher...needing to do something to make her worthy of her death". The "Other Poems", are about the bangtailed optimism of people working their lives out in the "Depression Thirties" and through the hard times of World War II. They are the history of a place as told from the emotional memory of a boy who heard and saw...
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This book is about the remarkable courage of a woman who never married, finding in a woman's world the dignity and grace of a life to which she felt she owed "something higher...needing to do something to make her worthy of her death". The "Other Poems", are about the bangtailed optimism of people working their lives out in the "Depression Thirties" and through the hard times of World War II. They are the history of a place as told from the emotional memory of a boy who heard and saw much more than he knew.