Dear Mad'm
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by Stella Walthall Patterson
Dear Mad'm she was called - this woman living alone with her dog Vicki in a cabin on her mining claim in the great timber forests along the Klamath River in the Siskiyou Mountains of northern California.
Mrs. Patterson, at the age of eighty, suddenly discovered that she had a great deal of life yet to live. She had health, wonderful vitality, a pair of young legs and an overpowering desire to live life on her own terms far away from a city. She wanted freedom and independence. She determined to go it alone for the full round of a year.
Life all alone in this remote cabin meant taking grave chances. There were terrible and frightening storms. There were rattlesnakes, and an encounter with a mountain lion, nights of trepidation and long solitary days. But there were wonderful compensations too, with the changing seasons, the garden flowers, true neighbors in the hills, and endearing characters who came into her life.
Her daily world, her unusual zest for living, her jaunty humor and her fresh and original observations - these are detailed with clarity and directness. Small wonder that at the end of her year - on her eighty-first birthday - Dear Mad'm concluded that she wanted to continue this good life close to the soil, where she found that the people she needed also needed her. Here she discovered the full and happy life with the deepest satisfaction living can offer.
Dear Mad'm is a perennial bestseller at Village Books!
Dear Mad'm she was called - this woman living alone with her dog Vicki in a cabin on her mining claim in the great timber forests along the Klamath River in the Siskiyou Mountains of northern California.
Mrs. Patterson, at the age of eighty, suddenly discovered that she had a great deal of life yet to live. She had health, wonderful vitality, a pair of young legs and an overpowering desire to live life on her own terms far away from a city. She wanted freedom and independence. She determined to go it alone for the full round of a year.
Life all alone in this remote cabin meant taking grave chances. There were terrible and frightening storms. There were rattlesnakes, and an encounter with a mountain lion, nights of trepidation and long solitary days. But there were wonderful compensations too, with the changing seasons, the garden flowers, true neighbors in the hills, and endearing characters who came into her life.
Her daily world, her unusual zest for living, her jaunty humor and her fresh and original observations - these are detailed with clarity and directness. Small wonder that at the end of her year - on her eighty-first birthday - Dear Mad'm concluded that she wanted to continue this good life close to the soil, where she found that the people she needed also needed her. Here she discovered the full and happy life with the deepest satisfaction living can offer.
Dear Mad'm is a perennial bestseller at Village Books!
