Naperville, Illinois resident Kate Gingold is an author, speaker, local historian, and Internet columnist. Inspired by her town's 175th anniversary, Gingold became a member of the Naperville Heritage Society, studied the town's origins and began her book-writing career.
Those Naperville studies bore fruit when her first book, "Ruth by Lake and Prairie," was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the Illinois State Historical Society.
An intense researcher, she's found long-forgotten pieces of history thanks to her skills at digging into Internet archives.
Along with her husband Don, Kate lives within walking distance of the historical downtown and both are active in their community.
Kate is a sought-after speaker on the topic of settling Illinois in the mid-1800's. Contact her for school visits or community presentations through her website at www.kategingold.com.
A Shadow in Yucatan
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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>
