PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Allan C. Hanrahan was born in North Carolina and reared on the Virginia Peninsula, where he lived before moving to Smithfi eld, Virginia in 1991. He graduated from Newport News High School, the NASA Apprentice School and Christopher Newport College, where his curriculum was a major in English and a minor in history, including art history. He did graduate study at George Washington University in administrative science. He retired from NASA (where he had written for 22 years his Personnel Profi les column for the in-house publication The Langley Researcher and took proofreading courses) became a substitute schoolteacher and then middle school tutor before beginning to free-lancefor the Oyster Pointer newspaper, for 20 years. Over the years, he has contributed free-lance articles - most with drawings - to the Daily Press, and reviewed books for that publication, as well as for The Virginian-Pilot. He has contributed to such other publications as The Virginia Cavalcade and Good Old Days magazines. He continues to do pen-and-ink drawings.In 2013, with the invaluable assistance of Parke Press of Norfolk, Virginia, he produced his fi rst book, Times & Places: A Glimpse of Life on the Virginia Peninsula. He is presently creating a sequel to that work, but in the meantime has completed Black Tuesday: The Stock market Crash of 1929, and other works.
