Beyond All This (ePub)

This is the author's first sounder, if one counts producing a book under cover as Mildred Anderson's one journalistic achievement after spending most of her life in the field. Along with her doctor-husband-editor, Wick, Mildred helped publish a medical journal, a weekly newspaper, and many other periodicals over more than three decades. When asked why she never wrote a book, she twits, "We were too busy producing a first edition to write about it." Looking back over those busy years of life in a small Mississippi town with her husband whose practice was mostly rural, and who helped run his town almost as a one-man chamber of commerce (yet who was listed in Who's Who in America 1937-1969), she recalls, "I was twirling in half a dozen roles. One needs leisure to write. My day and I were indeed overspent if I had kept the presses running, helped Wick prevent or promote certain civic happenings, depended on Koot to add the right amount of water to extend the soup for two unexpected legislators who stayed for lunch, answered the phone all hours, and touched base with daughters Jane and Nancy."

Now, with life less strenuous, to have the privilege of writing about my long-time friend, this wonderfully heroic woman who has spent thirty-odd years of her mature life swabbing the sores and showing The Way in perhaps the darkest corner of our hemisphere, has been an excursion of joy.

"And may you, dear reader, find a day with Granny Holdeman and the Turnbulls enrichingly delightsome...and perhaps one happy day even find yourself sharing the heartbeat and an unforgettable evening with the other guests and celebrities around Eleanor's table at the mission at Fermathe."

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