Smith Reid Livres

"The happy events, the human asides, historic happenings, and family legends . . . make its pages delightful to read. Smith writes warmly and with an easy appreciative wit."-The Tennesseean Central Tennessee is a fascinating and historic area. Home to Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk, it was a major battleground during the Civil War. Majestic Middle Tennessee looks at ninety-five glorious antebellum homes in the central Tennessee region. Featured here are the sumptuous Rattle and Snap, the crown prince of them all; Mulberry Hill, where a Yankee stranger was mysteriously shot to death; and Foxview, home to children and cousins by the dozens. Hundreds of photographs and fascinating text detail the exciting and tragic history of each home.

Iris Therese Smith Reid's children's stories are populated by witches and dragons, beautiful princesses, mermaids and magic. She takes us into a world of imagination, where marvellous things happen, good triumphs and everyone lives happily ever after.

They had been travelling through the blackness now for thousands of miles when suddenly, every now and then, they heard a thud as something crashed against their spaceship.Then all the engines stopped working. They were now stranded in the black hole, stuck between one universe and another. They were adrift and alone in the black hole in space.

A cave deep in the forest is the gateway to a magical mystical miracle place where dreams come true, illnesses are washed away and love is pure. But only those selected by destiny can find the cave. As a young woman, Faith is guided to the cave and develops a unique bond with it, and her destiny and that of her family are touched by miracles.

Iris Therese Smith Reid has a growing reputation as a poet, particularly in and around Grimsby. As well as having written several books of poetry, her work appears from time to time in local magazines. The poems here cover a wide range of themes, from the experience of being a small child in a Grimsby air- raid to Iris's thoughts on retirement.

Iris Therese Smith Reid was born in Grimsby in 1938, and she gives a vivid account of what it was like to be a child growing up during the war. The second part of this biography covers Iris's working family life. Now Iris looks after her husband who has vascular dementia and part three relates how they continue to get the most out of life.

This is the second book of poems by Iris Therese Smith Reid inspired by the experience of caring for a dementia sufferer. Her poems express what it really means when the connection between two people is held together by a great bond of devotion. A selection of more-amusing verse ends the book in a lighter vein.