Women Behind Stained Glass: West Texas Pioneers
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Heroes don&8217tjust live in the pages of graphic novels. And author Dana Glossbrenner proves just that with her fascinating true story of good women who can&8217tbe kept down. While members of the First Christian Church in San Angelo, Texas, know that their stained glass windows are quite old, they don&8217tknow the women to whom the windows are dedicated&8212Anne Tankersley, Mary Jane Metcalfe, and Ellen Osmer Farr. Thanks to extensive research and a special knack for storytelling, Glossbrenner introduces readers to the tragedy and triumph these women experienced as they made their way through the early days of San Angelo&8217sfounding in the late nineteenth century.From Annie&8217srole as the first white woman to permanently settle a family in the Concho Valley of West Texas, to Mary Jane&8217ssolo journey southward after leaving her husband in an asylum, to Ellen&8217sposition as the first female postmaster in San Angelo, these three women bucked the conventions of their times to make their way through a world that didn&8217tquite know what to do with them.Readers will be captivated by their exciting stories, as natural disasters, divorce, death, and mental illness wreak havoc on their lives&8212andfuel their determination to make a difference in their small Texas town.