Finding Lost Voices: the Babb Family Reunion and a sneak peek at Chapter 1 of Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
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Yesterday, I gave my first talk on my book Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb at the Babb Family Reunion in Winchester, VA. Why Winchester, you might ask? Well, as it turns out, some of the earliest members of the Babb family were there centuries ago. At the event, I read from Chapter 1, a chapter that begins in medias res. A young Babb is on a train leaving Red Rock, OK, and headed to her new home, her family’s homestead in Eastern Colorado. Then, the chapter goes back to when Sanora Babb’s mother and father first arrived in Red Rock, OK, in 1905. The chapter focuses on the trials her mother faced moving to a small, frontier town when she married twenty-five-year-old Walter Babb (at age fifteen) and goes on to talk about Sanora’s birth, the birth of her sister Dorothy two years later, and their early upbringing. It also contains a story about where the title of the book (Riding Like the Wind) comes from. For you wonderful paying members, here is a sneak peek at that scene. Thanks so much for your support!
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