The Elk In The Glade: The World Of Pioneer And Painter Jennie Hicks

Based on personal memories and family oral history, Whitacre's debut poetry collection traces the life and legacy of his paternal great-grandmother, Jennie Fitch, daughter of American pioneers, a frontier spinster surviving on her own as a dressmaker in the Northern Great Plains until she meets longtime bachelor Arthur Hicks, the son of a well-to-do client, and marries this kind and successful farmer. She moves to his farm, bears him three girls, Esther, Dorathy, and Ruth, sees them through marriage and children, survives the Depression, only to outlive him and the farm, and once again alone, and facing hardship, transforms an almost forgotten hobby, her young-girl dream, into a brilliant thirty-year career as the successful landscape painter Jennie Hicks, the future pride of her hometown, Farnam, Nebraska, and an important figure in American art.

• | Author: Bruce E Whitacre
• | Publisher: Crown Rock Media
• | Publication Date: Oct 19, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 80 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1946116254
• | ISBN-13: 9781946116253