We left the University of Maryland and the heady world of being the number-one football team in the nation (my husband a coach) as well as the world of theater that I knew. Following my last role a...view moreWe left the University of Maryland and the heady world of being the number-one football team in the nation (my husband a coach) as well as the world of theater that I knew. Following my last role as Emily in the Arena Stage (Washington DC) production of Our Town, we moved to the South of the sixties. At the time I thought we had come to the edge of the earth.
To try to understand and appreciate this new and strange world, it was necessary to know the past. What happened to make the South the way it was? I had to know the stories!
The Southerner saw me as an outsider, and it was hard for them to share their secrets. However, a background in Literature/Theatre(MA)…professional theater…producer/hostess for SCETV evening programming…raising four children in a politically active family…ultimately gave me insight and learned courage to write my own conclusions about South Carolina’s intriguing past. In what can only be a Southern story, Memories is the South as I see it.view less