With Courage & Common Sense

An extensive selection of memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy project, chronicling far-reaching changes in the ways that women participated in the world during the twentieth century.

Foreword by Liz Carpenter Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Identity: I Am Not Always the Same Person Daughter: Gayle Hunt A Woman Named Billie: Billie Grace Herring My Mother's Daughter: Katherine Koonce My Father's Daughter: Jo Scudder A Story about Who I Am: Ruby Johnston All the Things I Am: Williene Story I Am Not Always the Same Person: Marilyn Zimmerman Going to School: Oma Gillis A European Youth: Erika Eden Girls Just Didn't Go to College: Gayle Hunt A Lover of Back Roads: Martha Knies Gifts That I Chose for Myself: Selah Rose Chapter Two. Home: I Was Born in East Texas I Was Born in East Texas...: Helen G. Burton How My Mother Got Her Washing Machine: Janie Kirkpatrick Keeping House for My Mother: Betty Martin Courage and Little Else: Helen Ibbotson Chores, Chores, Endless Chores: Mary Lou Morgette A Lesson for Young Brides: Oleta Cates Horses, Friends, and Cleaning Out the Stalls: Sarah McKinney Aunt Hattie's House: Janice Wilkins Finding Home: Grace B. Schmitt Chapter Three. Work: Making Something That Lasted Making Something That Lasted: Kathryn Doggett God Had Given Me a Brain: Gayle Hunt Making My Own Way: Erma Hiltpold Clerking in My Dad's General Store: Pat Simmons "I'm Doing the Best I Can": Patricia Gunderlach District 23, Speedway School: Rose Vrba Southern Belle: A Full-Time Job: Marthanne Luzader A Fitting Job: Mathilda Mimun Cattle Drive: Erin Colleen Moore The Autoclave: Lavern Crawford My Navy Career: Joan H. Crews An Office in the Courthouse: Margaret C. Long Things Began to Change: Faye L. Kelly My Silver Star: Billie Grace Herring Just an Old Hooker: Lois Earley Granny's Biscuits: Sue Kinney Chapter Four. Family: Grandmother and the Pirates Grandmother and the Pirates: Eula Rae McCown My Father and the Value of Money: Bonnie Knipp Nanoo: Carole Burke Grandma Maggie Helman: Joann Bynum My Mother and the Pigeons: Martha Knies An Unexpected Meeting: Patricia Lyon William and the Outhouse: Martha Brian My Brother Ray: Kathryn Doggett Aminta: Amparo Gonzalez We All Loved Each Other: Bertie W. Wright Lillian: Francys Shliff Rosy: Ruby Varnon Bishop Chapter Five. Love: 'Til We Meet Again 'Til We Meet Again: Sherlie Hurwitz Love Letters: Nadeane Walker Anderson Those Golden Days at Graceland: Katherine Koonce How My Life Changed: Amparo Gonzalez To Do As I Pleased: Minnie Ree Baccus A Keepsake Penny, and Love Refound: Eula Rae McCown "Hey, Maud Farkle . . .": Paula Stephens-Bishop Do You Believe in Fate?: Evelyn Simon "I Will Promise You a Rose Garden": Val Jean Schmidt Chapter Six. Loss: The Strength to Survive The Lost Shoes: Alice M. Short The Day My Childhood Died: Ruby Varnon Bishop When Daddy Died: Ruby A. Taylor The Strength to Survive: Sarah Lichtman Teddy: Jean Wyllys Changing Places: Joyce A. Dehlin Renee: Irene Luedke The Day Grandma Died: Sidna Leavenworth "I Should Have Cried": Lucy A. Boyea Losing Martha: Bobbye Jo Barker When I Think of Grace... :Jeanie Forsyth Chapter Seven. Living Fully: I Still Had My Two Dollars Decoration Day, Fairy Tales, and the Ice Cream Wagon: Oma Gillis I Still Had My Two Dollars: Marji Smith Baseball Fever: Jane R. Peppard The Best Christmas: Mary G. Warren Inside a Prism: Ruby Varnon Bishop My Bonneville Convertible: Pauline Carey Kyky the Elephant: Margaret F. Shive Outward Bound: Jeanie Forsyth The Happiest Day of My Life: Erma Hiltpold The Day My Daughter Walked: Mary Holder I Felt like a Queen: Lorene B. Laird A Summer with Granny Rylee: Pat Williamson Chapter Eight. Witness: Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Events Remembering War: Mathilda Mimun Holocaust Survivor: Sarah Lichtman "Where Is Pearl Harbor?": Lavern Crawford December 7, 1941: Jean Leonard How Would I Measure Up under Fire?: Eileen C. Titus Rommel's Hannibal Connection: Janine M. Koch Not a Dry Eye in the House: Patricia J. Click When the Americans Came: Jean Wyllys The Day Roosevelt Died: Bobbye Jo Barker An Army Wife in Postwar Germany: Faye L. Kelly An Ordinary Day: An Extraordinary Event: Wanda Heath Terror: The Day MLK Died: Louise Kent When the Russians Invaded Czechoslovakia: Dolores R. Muhich Four Joyful Days: Agatha Barbay Chapter Nine. Legacies: "I Wish You Could Have Known My Grandma" Family Books, Family Treasures: Helen Burnette The Tapestry: Bobbye Jo Barker My Grandmother's Dress: Joyce A. Dehlin My Mother's Ring: Mathilda Mimun My Keepsake Quilt: Mary Lou Morgette The Legacy of the Two Lauras: Sue Kinney Mama's Writings: Irene Luedke The Other Side of Fifty: Betty Poe Howard A Letter to a Young Person: Marthanne Luzader "I Wish You Could Have Known My Grandma": Evelyn Simon Biographical Notes About Story Circle Network