Living Library

Little Apple Picker

I researched the burning of an African-American church near Biglerville and wrote a book about it called Yellow Hill. I picked fruit there as a child on my grandfather’s farm and found many secrets in the hills. I discovered the Underground Railroad in Adams County and created a tour company while working full-time. I started a business and did speeches all over the New England states. I’m a community activist and supporter and I have served on many boards and committees starting events that are held annually in Gettysburg. I did a film on Adams County’s history. I aid others by giving sources for doctorate research. I nominated several sites to the NPS National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. 

All the while, I was undergoing horrific narcissistic abuse. From a failed 38 year marriage, I have emerged after five years of trauma survival mostly during the isolation of the pandemic . 

I’m feeling my joy again, but my message is to alert others to narcissists and to see the signs so others don’t get trapped like I did for nearly 4 decades only to be the subject of a smear campaign where lost so many precious family members who believed his lies. It’s a story of love and work and abuse and forgiveness and healing.