Home Is Where The Heart Is

by Mildred Mastin Pace

Overview

This is the story of Brady Allen and how she found a home and romance with the bewildering, loving Marstons. When Brady’s father left the mountain and went off to look for work, he left Brady to live with the Marstons in their rambling farm called The Houses. And to Brady, coming from a small cabin, it seemed that perhaps she would never belong to this strange, wonderful household. She could scarcely accustom herself to mornings in the family classroom, to sitting at the long kitchen table piled with good food, to sharing with Sally the deep feather bed under the eaves. Secretly she feared that when Judge Marston returned from his circuit, he might not even want her. But Brady had a loving heart, and with each day she became more a part of The Houses. It was Brady who delighted little Fernie’s heart at Christmas. It was Brady who sat long hours spinning with Granny. It was Brady who kept the secret that made it possible for Miss Nell to run off and marry Trink. And it was to Brady that Bob turned when he needed help in hiding the outlander, the railroad man whom Sally loved, but whom the Judge forbade The Houses. Because of Bob especially, Brady knew she would always be a part of the Marston family, that the motto she had worked on a sampler is true: “Home Is Where The Heart Is”. It is a story of family love, of friendship, and of romance. It is one of those rare, delightful books which are read and reread and remembered happily for a very long time.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014657501
Publisher:	Rejuvenate Your Books
Publication date:	07/02/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	394 KB

About the Author

Mildred Mastin Pace was born in St Louis, Missouri, she and her family moved to Kentucky when she was fifteen. Her career as a writer began when she worked her way through Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, writing for newspapers. After college she went to New York and continued writing. Her distinguished writing career flowered in 1941 with her biography of Clara Barton. This book won The Herald Tribune Spring Festival Prize for most outstanding children’s book for the older age. In 1957, the children of Vermont voted her story, Old Bones the Wonder Horse, Kentucky Derby Champion, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher award. In 1970 she wrote My Japan. This is the story of one young girl’s life before, during and after the Hiroshima holocaust. It was while ferreting out material for many of the Mary Margaret McBride radio shows during 1936-1940, that she developed the research skills that made the writing of her books possible. She wrote three other biographies which are: Juliette Low, Early American, the story of Paul Revere and Friend of Animals, the story of Henry Bergh, founder of the A.S.P.C.A. She wrote one novel, Home Is Where the Heart Is. Two of her most popular books are Wrapped for Eternity, the story of the Egyptian Mummy and Pyramids, Tombs for Eternity. She lived with, her husband Clark, in wooded privacy in Garrison, New York. She was very active in the affairs of the local library. After Clark died she moved to Lexington, Kentucky to be close to family. She died on October 24th, 1992.