Publisher's Synopsis
"Based on personal memories and family oral history, Whitacre's debut collection of sixteen poems, traces the life and legacy of a family matriarch, his paternal great-grandmother, Jennie Hicks, the daughter of American pioneers, a frontier spinster surviving on her own as a dressmaker until she marries the longtime-bachelor son of a well-to-do client, a kind and successful farmer, bearing him three girls, seeing them all married with children, only to outlive him and the farm, and once again alone, and facing hardship, transforms an almost forgotten hobby, her young girl dream, into a brilliant thirty-year career as a successful landscape painter, the future pride of her hometown, Farnam, Nebraska, and an important figure in American art. Lovers of American history, art, and strong female characters will enjoy these chronicles in verse"--.
