As we come across people in our lives, at our schools, at the store, even in our churches, they may seem like their lives are perfect and everything is going well.
It Never Rains in Cape May is a journal of my week adventure in Cape May-an invitation from my twenty-four-year-older white boyfriend and his two grown daughters, a vacation that they would normally take with his late wife, their mother.
It tells a story of grandparents in the 1800s as judges in Missouri and those on the Supreme Court of Missouri on my mother's side of the family, then Congressman Frank W.
An Appalachian story of a six-year-old boy moving to his grandfather's property on Elkhorn Creek in eastern Kentucky, where he experiences all the great things about living off the land from fruit trees, a garden, catching crawdads, minnows, and tuffies, fishing, and learning to swim.