A Farm Near Frohna: The Story Behind a Missouri Century Farm (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781453707838)

Reared in St. Louis, Missouri, Mary Linda Miller graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Maryville University in 1978; worked for twenty-five years doing drafting and technical writing in the fields of civil engineering and architecture while living in St. Louis, Phoenix, and Kaneohe, HI; and traveled extensively in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. She currently resides in Orlando, Florida with her husband of over thirty years Carmelo Monti and their son Jason-both Kaempfe-Koenig descendants-and she actively participates in her church and online at www.findagrave.com and www.authonomy.com. Her writing includes poetry; a technical manual for interpreting American with Disabilities Act Design Standards for the Hawaiian State Commission on Persons with Disabilities; a technical manual for corporate civil engineering AutoCAD drafting standards written in Phoenix; two self-published books of genealogy and family history; a completed novel "Liminality: The Fox Woman's Child", which combines Japanese mythology and religion with mid-20th-century American history; and a completed children's early chapter book "Terry Trackhoe Goes Missing" that was illustrated by husband Carmelo Monti Works in progress include a third family history; an unfinished sequel "Terry Trackhoe Goes Swimming"; and an unfinished novel that combines the Hawaiian mythological romance of Laieikawai with a modern event-Hurricane Iniki-which she experienced first-hand while living on Oahu. Hurricane Charley, which ripped through Orlando in 2004, reinforced that experience, and every hurricane season in Florida reminds her that she still has a story to tell.