Oldish Book Club: The Ride of Her Life
Send a text In this installment of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust and our always special guest Leslie Ross-Degnan enjoy The Ride of Her Life, by Elizabeth Letts. It's the inspiring and engaging story of Mesannie Wilkins, a poor Maine farmer whose farm was lost to poverty and circumstance, who set out on an epic journey to sunny California. On her horse. In 1955. What was America like in those days, and how did this Maineah make it? You can find the book in you...
In this installment of the Oldish Book Club co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust and our always special guest Leslie Ross-Degnan enjoy The Ride of Her Life, by Elizabeth Letts. It's the inspiring and engaging story of Mesannie Wilkins, a poor Maine farmer whose farm was lost to poverty and circumstance, who set out on an epic journey to sunny California. On her horse. In 1955. What was America like in those days, and how did this Maineah make it?
You can find the book in your local library, and in our Oldish bookstore at Bookshop.org.
More about Elizabeth Letts and Annie can be found here.
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Thanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.
