PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
"Enfys McMurry is a native of Wales and a thirty-five-year citizen of the US. She was educated at the University of London, the University of Arizona, and Truman State University. She's taken courses at Iowa State and the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop.For seven years she taught in London, England, but for twenty-three years was an English instructor at Indian Hills Community College, Centerville Campus.She has had articles published in Wales' Western Mail; in the US in The Des Moines Register, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Examiner, Architectural Digest, as well as Centerville's Iowegian.She is the author of Hearst's Other Castle and appeared on a BBC Television program on St. Donat's Castle, one of William Randolph Hearst's homes, on the coast of Wales.Her book, Centerville: A Mid-American Saga, was published in 2013. It was ten years of research that culminated in a comprehensive history. ""Centerville's history is a microcosm of American history and Enfys has captured it in this magnificent book,"" per the Appanoose County Historical & Coal Mining Museum website."
""". . . my uncle, Captain Fred Gray, was a cheerful character and a most highly respected aviator. At the time of the event, he was looking forward to the upcoming birth of his daughter. One tragic story of many on Flight 11. ""Ms. McMurry's extensively researched, minute by minute account of the final moments of Continental Airlines Flight 11 is both riveting and somber. The tragic event of May 22, 1962, is the story of an unwitting aviation industry, of a deranged man, and of a rural community unselfishly coming to the aid of strangers. But most of all, it is a story of families forever shattered and the precious lives lost that dark and stormy night."" - -Captain Craig G. Gray (retired), nephew of Captain Fred R. Gray, Pilot in Command of Flight 11 ""The downing of Continental Airlines Flight 11 on May 22, 1962, shook the innocence of the flying public . . . Author Enfys McMurry allows you to practically smell the jet fuel, feel the pitch dark of a rural Missouri road, and the terror that swallowed people up the night that Flight 11 fell from the sky . . . she keeps you on the edge of your seat for what is a fascinating and often overlooked piece of American history. ""May we never forget Continental Airlines Flight 11 and the passengers and crew who lost their lives that night above rural America."" -Andrew Russell, aviation writer, author of The Missouri Crash"
