Women Behind Stained Glass: West Texas Pioneers - Softcover

Glossbrenner, Dana L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 149968309X ISBN 13: 9781499683097

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Heroes don’t just live in the pages of graphic novels. And author Dana Glossbrenner proves just that with her fascinating true story of good women who can’t be kept down.

While members of the First Christian Church in San Angelo, Texas, know that their stained glass windows are quite old, they don’t know the women to whom the windows are dedicated—Annie Tankersley, Mary Jane Metcalfe, and Ellen Osmer Farr.

Thanks to extensive research and a special knack for storytelling, Glossbrenner introduces readers to the tragedy and triumph these women experienced as they made their way through the early days of San Angelo’s founding in the late nineteenth century.

From Annie’s role as the first white woman to permanently settle a family in the Concho Valley of West Texas, to Mary Jane’s solo journey southward after leaving her husband in an asylum, to Ellen’s position as the first female postmaster in San Angelo, these three women bucked the conventions of their times to make their way through a world that didn’t quite know what to do with them.

Readers will be captivated by their exciting stories, as natural disasters, divorce, death, and mental illness wreak havoc on their lives—and fuel their determination to make a difference in their small Texas town.

About this title

From the Author

This is not a book about making stained glass. It's about pioneer women who left such a mark in their community that their descendants who prospered as a result of their sacrifice decided to dedicate church stained glass windows to them. The windows are there to be seen, in a downtown church in San Angelo, Texas, but the history behind them has been lost in the century that has followed their creation. Their lives and voices echo in the old records and the history of their times. And the donors have some interesting stories, too.

About the Author

Dana Glossbrenner earned a master’s degree in both English and educational guidance and counseling before launching a career as a high school and university English teacher and school counselor.

A West Texas native, Glossbrenner combined her passion for community and history in order to write her debut non-fiction book, Women Behind Stained Glass.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 149968309X
• ISBN 13: 9781499683097
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176