Death Valley Junction is no field of dreams. But for fifty years, dancer Marta Becket built it into an oasis of creative expression. She rescued a ghost town theater, and they came in droves.
Madeleine L’Engle was over 40 when she wrote her beloved children’s book. A Wrinkle in Time. Twenty-six publishers rejected it, so she put it in a drawer. Why did they find it so difficult?
Leo Fender has been called “The Henry Ford of electric guitar.” But this late-blooming rock innovator started out as an accountant and didn’t even know how to play or tune a guitar!
When all seemed lost, author Anne R. Allen landed a publishing contract that included digs in an old mill near Sherwood Forest! But it turned out less than legendary…
There was nothing remarkable about Mildred Norman at first. You’d never guess that, at 45, she’d give away all her possessions, don a tunic emblazoned Peace Pilgrim, and walk the U.S. for 28 years preaching nonviolence.
Mary Somerville’s father feared for her sanity. Why couldn’t she interest herself in music and fashion magazines? But no, Mary wanted to be a mathematician, and in the end, Oxford named a college after her.