Dancing To Memories

Dancing to Memories

Grace Lee was a young teacher when, in 1925, her life was threatened. She landed in the Black Hills of South Dakota with no family, no friends, and fighting for her life. Lost and lonely she had little hope for a bright future or even a future at all. Dances and parties were no more. She fought as hard as she could. Her faith had to sustain her. Family was all she had to hold onto and she so wanted to go home.

Jackson Morris was an orphan by the time he was ten years old. His life turned for the worse and he gained only hate while being beaten down. As a young man, he became a wandering cowboy traveling through many states. His anger ruled his soul while his pleasures seemed to be riding his horse on the open plains and dancing. Yet he never found a woman to love and give him hope for a future.

Dancing to Memories is a novel based on fact and imagination about the romance of the author’s parents. Joanne Brand had little information about her parent's childhood and early lives. She filled it with in her imagination and historical fact. The few possessions she received a few years ago, along with her mother’s ancestral information, helped her. Yet she had little of nothing on her father. Her mother did not talk about him or display his few photographs. Brand built the characters of Grace and Jack as she imagined they might have been and she developed this into a love story that the reader will wish were true.

The author reveals some of the struggles that Grace and Jack may have encountered in their lives. Life was a different era than now. There were no cures of many diseases then, little technology, little or no child protection and less amenities than we see today. It was also the Great Depression and drought era with much suffering of most in the Midwest.

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