Peggy: Book Three of Interwoven
PEGGY, the third historical novel of the "Interwoven" series, begins in early 1917, in Milton, Florida, when the aspiring pianist, Peggy Susan MacDonald, is seventeen. In subsequent chapters, the story flashes back to 1865 in Coon Hill, Florida, when Nancy O'Neill and John MacDonald first meet, and then jumps, briefly, to 1898, before Peggy is born. Peggy plays the leading role in this story, but she carries with her an expanding cast of supporting characters who lived before and then along with her. Peggy is the much younger sister of Nelda MacDonald, the character who married Cleve McMillan, the main character in the previous novel, CLEVE. Peggy is mentioned only briefly in CLEVE, just as Cleve is mentioned only briefly in the first novel, WAITING DEER. The theme of all three books focuses on the mix of cultures who move into, meet, meld, and/or clash in northwest Florida. during this period in American history. In WAITING DEER, the principal struggle stems from the clashing of three races into the Coon Hill community cloth. In the second book, CLEVE, the character Cleveland McMillan grows up with unanswered questions regarding his past and a passion to find answers. He learns he cannot change the past, but he wants, desperately, to do something which will help the world. In the end, both Cleve, and, years later, Peggy, move away from Coon Hill, but they always remain tied in various ways to the past which has helped shape their lives. All three novels end within a week of one another in 1946. By the end of PEGGY, the reader comes to understand well why this series is titled "Interwoven."
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Peggy: Book Three of Interwoven
PEGGY, the third historical novel of the "Interwoven" series, begins in early 1917, in Milton, Florida, when the aspiring pianist, Peggy Susan MacDonald, is seventeen. In subsequent chapters, the story flashes back to 1865 in Coon Hill, Florida, when Nancy O'Neill and John MacDonald first meet, and then jumps, briefly, to 1898, before Peggy is born. Peggy plays the leading role in this story, but she carries with her an expanding cast of supporting characters who lived before and then along with her. Peggy is the much younger sister of Nelda MacDonald, the character who married Cleve McMillan, the main character in the previous novel, CLEVE. Peggy is mentioned only briefly in CLEVE, just as Cleve is mentioned only briefly in the first novel, WAITING DEER. The theme of all three books focuses on the mix of cultures who move into, meet, meld, and/or clash in northwest Florida. during this period in American history. In WAITING DEER, the principal struggle stems from the clashing of three races into the Coon Hill community cloth. In the second book, CLEVE, the character Cleveland McMillan grows up with unanswered questions regarding his past and a passion to find answers. He learns he cannot change the past, but he wants, desperately, to do something which will help the world. In the end, both Cleve, and, years later, Peggy, move away from Coon Hill, but they always remain tied in various ways to the past which has helped shape their lives. All three novels end within a week of one another in 1946. By the end of PEGGY, the reader comes to understand well why this series is titled "Interwoven."
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Peggy: Book Three of Interwoven

Peggy: Book Three of Interwoven

by Gaylier Miller
Peggy: Book Three of Interwoven

Peggy: Book Three of Interwoven

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PEGGY, the third historical novel of the "Interwoven" series, begins in early 1917, in Milton, Florida, when the aspiring pianist, Peggy Susan MacDonald, is seventeen. In subsequent chapters, the story flashes back to 1865 in Coon Hill, Florida, when Nancy O'Neill and John MacDonald first meet, and then jumps, briefly, to 1898, before Peggy is born. Peggy plays the leading role in this story, but she carries with her an expanding cast of supporting characters who lived before and then along with her. Peggy is the much younger sister of Nelda MacDonald, the character who married Cleve McMillan, the main character in the previous novel, CLEVE. Peggy is mentioned only briefly in CLEVE, just as Cleve is mentioned only briefly in the first novel, WAITING DEER. The theme of all three books focuses on the mix of cultures who move into, meet, meld, and/or clash in northwest Florida. during this period in American history. In WAITING DEER, the principal struggle stems from the clashing of three races into the Coon Hill community cloth. In the second book, CLEVE, the character Cleveland McMillan grows up with unanswered questions regarding his past and a passion to find answers. He learns he cannot change the past, but he wants, desperately, to do something which will help the world. In the end, both Cleve, and, years later, Peggy, move away from Coon Hill, but they always remain tied in various ways to the past which has helped shape their lives. All three novels end within a week of one another in 1946. By the end of PEGGY, the reader comes to understand well why this series is titled "Interwoven."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781986792356
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 03/31/2018
Series: Interwoven , #3
Pages: 298
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Gaylier Nowling Miller, EdD, was born on a farm in the area of northwest Florida of which she writes. She has published seven books since her "last" retirement. The last three have been novels. During her career, she taught high school journalism and English; served as an editor in the Public Affairs Office in Houston, Texas, was a staff writer for a national Christian youth magazine for five or six years, and spent more than twenty years as a college English professor and administrator at (now known as) Pensacola State College in Pensacola, Florida. There, she co-authored a freshman English text which was in used for several years. She also led writing workshops and spoke at English conferences in several states through the years. In 1994, she was one of thirteen participants in a 7-week NEH seminar on William Faulkner and the South.
While at PSC, she initiated and taught computer-assisted instruction for three different college English courses and developed course material for the college's first writing lab and served on various state committees related to assessing writing and reading skills for college students.
Gaylier has been married to her husband, Lomax, for sixty-one years. The couple have three children, seven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
For the past seven or so years, she has researched local history as a background for her novels, worked as a volunteer at a historical museum, and also designed and published two books for the Jay Historical Society. Besides writing, her hobbies are reading and genealogy.
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