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Title: The Granny Who Stands on Her Head | Author: Ann Richardson | Publisher: Glenmore Press (2021)

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The Wind

Letty is a delicate girl who is forced to move from lush Virginia to desolate West Texas in the 1880s. The numbing blizzards, the howling sand storms, and the loneliness of the prairie all combine to undo her nerves. But it is the wind itself, a demon personified, that eventually drives her over the brink of madness. This supernatural story was later made into a film starring Lillian…

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Guest Blog by Author Ann Richardson

Guest Blog by Author Ann Richardson

In Their Own Words:

a guest post by Ann Richardson

I would like to tell you about my books. I write books where people talk about some important aspect of their lives in their own words. They feel a bit like a written version of a TV documentary.

I start with 25-30 interviews, which are conversational in style and allow the people interviewed to talk as long as they like on a subject and add…

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Miss Brill

Katherine Mansfield accomplishes an incredible drama with detailed characterization in “Miss Brill”, a story only four pages long, written in the early 1920’s. The main character is a lonely spinster, probably an elderly Englishwoman, living in a resort area of France near the seashore, earning enough to support herself by tutoring English children and reading the newspapers to an old invalid…

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Gay Community Gives Back to Salem: LGBT Lunch Program to Kick-Off in 2016

Gay Community Gives Back to Salem: LGBT Lunch Program to Kick-Off in 2016

L-R: Official Queen of Salem: Duchess Gigi Gill; Ann Richardson, Lifebridge Thrift Shop Manager; ValerieSweeney, Lifebridge Clinical Manager; Nicole Lashomb, TRT Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief; and Debbie Barber,St. Peter – San Pedro Episcopal Church Senior Warden, attend the Holiday donation just in time for the winter season 2015-16 Photo: TRT By: Christine Nicco/TRT Reporter— SALEM, Mass.—A…

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Quilting in the Garden 2014

Quilting in the Garden 2014

What a scrumptious day at Alden Lane Nursery to see the annual “Quilting in The Garden”.  Beautiful quilts hanging all over their vast property amongst the flowers and trees, all blowing in the wind!

First some shots of the whole scene and then we’ll zero in on a few quilts (only a fraction unfortunately!).  Photography a little challenging as one is looking up taking photos against a sunny sky,…

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