Contents

1. Homesteads and Hamlet Traps

2. Hattie Stay or Hattie Go

3. Burnt Biscuits and Beaus

4. A Chop Suey Day

5. Ruby and Pearl

6. Headlines and Hard Truths

7. Piecing Together a New Life

8. Surprises and Cigars

9. Home Runs and Inches

10. A Bird in the Hand

11. Tetrazzini Chickens Out

12. Dora Dean Dives In

13. Shaken to the Core

14. War of Words

15. Stuck In Between

16. Byline Hattie Brooks

17. Dinner and Disaster

18. The Stars Are in Alignment

19. Taking Pen in Hand

20. Till Niagara Falls

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

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