Betty Cain

Betty Cain

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Betty Ward Cain is a published author, musician and retired teacher. She is listed in the Cambridge who’s who.  Mrs. Cain taught kindergarten students for 30 years.  She comes from a long line of ministers, musicians, teachers and song writers.Mrs. Cain grew up in a minister’s home.  Her father (Rev. T. N. Ward) and grandfather (Rev. L. M. Justice) were Church of God ministers.  She desires to pass on her Christian heritage and bring the values she learned during her childhood to children today.

     The author became a Christian when she was only 5 years old.  She has spent most of her life in some type of ministry as a Sunday School teacher, soloist, choir member, children’s choir director, vacation Bible school teacher, and has held most positions in her church. Mrs. Cain began writing several years before she retired from teaching.  After taking a class at Lee University with Dr. Cliff Schimmels, she began her career in writing.  Dr. Schimmels was published many times in his lifetime.  After turning in a writing assignment in his class, Dr. Schimmels told her she should share her gifts with others.  She had never believed in her abilities until he gave her the encouragement she needed.      Mrs. Cain lives with her husband, Jay, in Cleveland, TN.  They have one son, Jeremy, who is married to Beth Grabensteder Cain and the couple has three children.  The delight of Mrs. Cain’s life is her three grandchildren.  Madelin is in the 6th grade this year.  She is a loving, sweet and kind child who desires to please.  Sophie is in the 4th grade this year.  She has a great zest for life.  She is intelligent and observant and loves to give and receive hugs.  Sammy will soon be 8 years old going on 29.  He will start 1st grade this year. He is highly intelligent for a child so young.  He loves life and loves people.  He also loves to make his grandmother laugh.     

 

A Shadow in Yucatan

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>

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