Mary's book consists of her weekly columns that she has written
over a twenty year period. Which have been published in The Toledo
Democrat and in Naples, Florida where she lived as a Snowbird for
twenty years. In Naples she used the byline Under The Sun. Her
columns there were first published in the Golden Gate Gazette and
when it closed they were published in "The Collier Citizen" as long
as she was residing in Florida. Mary has written about a variety of
subjects including growing up on a bright leaf tobacco farm in
Eastern North Carolina, during The Great Depression and living in a
segregated society; although her parents were not segregationists.
She also has columns being the first woman elected to serve on her
local community college board and later as chairman of the Illinois
Community College Trustees Association in Springfield. She also has
written about the pain of losing her oldest son and her teaching
experiences. She was first introduced to column writing as her
parents had jointly written a human interest's column for The
Raleigh News And Observer entitled "Down Onslow Way" Mary had
fallen in love at 16 and dropped out of school to marry her loving
husband of 63 years. She later secured a GED diploma and attended
college as an adult
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