Travel with Lucia Peel Powe in her long and busy life as she travels from Macon, Georgia, to the Miss America Pageant to TV’s Romper Room — and beyond — in this collection of reminiscences, wry observations, and essays both humorous and serious that span nearly seven decades.

In these pages, you will meet:

• A famous actor
• A stuttering wedding singer
• A wisecracking priest
• Ezra Pound’s former nurse
• Baby Jesus as a light bulb
• Several beauty queens
• Four daughters
• Three stepdaughters
• Two husbands

Praise for Lucia Peel Powe’s writing

“Lucia’s [voice] comes to her naturally, imbuing her stories with authenticity, sensitivity, humility and hard-won wisdom.” — Doug Marlette, author of The Bridge and Magic Time