Ancestry research and genealogy studies as well as good-old family storytelling sessions influenced my writing of my first book.  I am a high school English teacher (23 years now) and have found my voice.  I enjoy writing comfortably descriptive prose about what I have found after researching.

Book back cover:  Although times were tough for Eliott, he says he doesn't remember feeling that he was poor.  "Up until I was about nine, our living conditions were closer to those who lived in the forties."