Description:
The retrospective is less a slice than a three-scoop sundae of life: Closely observed and deeply reported stories from a half century in journalism combine with family history & memoir, beginning with growing up above 1950s' nightlife.
Brief description: Sandra Olivetti Martin is best known as founding editor, publisher andcolumnist at Bay Weekly, which began in Chesapeake country 30years ago as New Bay Times. She is a graduate of St. Joseph's Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, and holds two degrees from St. Louis University.She has taught writing at colleges anduniversities in Illinois, Missouri and Maryland and has written forthe Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and magazines. Shenow is publisher at New Bay Books, which produced 15 titles in itsfirst two years. Sandra grew up in St. Louis above the legendaryStymie Club, from which the book's title is derived, and lives nowalong the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland.
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ONE-Fire at the Stymie Club
TWO-Past Tense
Finding My Roots in Italy 1
The Untimely Death of James Smith 1
Am Liking This Life Just Fine 1
THREE-Getting Personal
How I Chose My Birthday 1
Intruders 1
Best Friends, Bonded over Baseball 1
The Great St. Louis Snowstorm 1
At Piazza della Repubblica, a Sunset Melon 1
At Ballymaloe, a Feast-Filled Journey to Ireland 1
The Story of My Hands 1
At the Mother Love Dinner Table 1
My Twin Son: A Lifelong Story 1
The Humbling 1
FOUR-The Character of Lincoln Land
What It's Like to Look Like Abe Lincoln 1
Abraham Lincoln's Totem Poles 1
After 444 Days, A Hostage Comes Home to Illinois 1
Masters in the Art of Shine 1
A Homebirth Teacher Gives Birth 1
Fasting is Unladylike 1
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EIGHT-Misbehavior
The Lawrenceville Peephole Incident 1
Women Who Kill in Self-Defense 1
A Christmas Skyjacking 1
Wanda Was Wronged 1
NINE-Welcomes
A First: Grandson John Alexander 'Jack' Knoll Jr. 1
Elsa Leigh Knoll Enters the World 1
Hello There Ada Olivia Knoll 1
TEN-Farewells
Vera's Last Act 1
Vera Freeman: Empress of Glamor 1
Sue Eslinger: Celebrating the Last Stands 1
of Anachronisms
Sherryl Kirkpatrick: In Our Eden, She Was Eve 1
The Bay Gardener: Dr. Francis Gouin 1
Sonia Linebaugh: Her Pilgrim Soul Tarried with Us 1
to Make New Bay Times
M.L. Faunce: What We Said Before She Died 1
Philip Tinsley: A Man Who Lived and Died
with All He Wanted 1
Gene Martin: A Toast to My Father 1
Reminder for My Mother: Elsa Olivetti Martin 1