Book Synopsis
A dancer whose parents were too fearful of big, bad New York City to let her accept a scholarship to Juilliard … a master at the helm of any sailboat she was fortunate enough to find herself on … an exuberant dynamo willing and able to build her own stone wall (even if it meant “liberating” parts of existing stone walls) … these are just a few sides to Betty Louise Mitchell. Ninety-one and several years into the curse of dementia when she died in 2017, Betty gave up the privilege of her girlhood to marry the son of two modest teachers and managed to create a rollicking good life.