All Things New US History —Betsy Dillard Stroud Creative opportunity

—Betsy Dillard Stroud Creative opportunity is always knocking

In this exuberant celebration of creativity

Or are they too tied to the way life used to be

the merchant adventurer

All Things New US History —Betsy Dillard Stroud Creative opportunityIn the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly and her mother, Eugenia, struggle to pick up the pieces of their lives when they return to their Virginia plantation. But the bitter realities of life after the war cannot be denied: their home and land are but shells of their previous grandeur; death has claimed her father and brother; and her remaining brother, Daniel, has returned home bitter and broken. The privileged childhood Josephine