Another Time, Another Place
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Betty, known as Miss Betty to her pupils, taught piano; Pearl helped around the house. They arrived in town in the late Thirties before the war, before paved streets. "I knew right away this was my kind of place," said Betty for years afterward, to anyone who asked why she'd come. The accent, not New England, prompted the occasional query. New people mostly, mothers making pleasant conversation while their daughters and sometimes sons, though Betty preferred girl pupils, handed coats over to Pearl and smoothed out their sheet music. "Saw a fellow on a horse coming down the street, reminded me of home. Missouri, little town you never heard of. . . ." ---an excerpt from "Queer," part of Ann T. Keene's story collection "Another Time, Another Place" Bea and Phil, everyone called them that, were fifty-something when Bea taught with Geoffrey at the state college, a former teacher-training school. Phil was a self-described leather artist. He made belts and earrings and wrist cuffs from cowhide, and sold them at a craft store owned by hippies in town. Phil had been something else before, something to do with his hands, a skilled laborer maybe. Years ago he had come along with Bea, "a package deal," Bea said with a flippant laugh, from out west, not the coast, the inner west, one of those states with lots of space where people get lost, sometimes on purpose. . . . --an excerpt from "Another Time, Another Place," the title story
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ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE offers engaging stories--often humorous, sometimes tragic--of seemingly ordinary American women of the twentieth century who come to terms with disturbing memories of lives that were far from commonplace.
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Ann T. Keene was born in Chicago and educated at Swarthmore College and Indiana University. She has lived in New York City, Washington DC, and Los Angeles, and also spent several years in Switzerland. A specialist in American studies, Keene taught literature and writing at the university level before becoming a professional editor and writer of both fiction and nonfiction for trade book publishers in New York City. She is the author of half a dozen books of nonfiction for young adults, including "Earthkeepers: Observers and Protectors of Nature" and "Peacemakers," both published by Oxford University Press. Her young-adult biography "Willa Cather," originally published by Simon & Schuster, is available in a reprint edition from iUniverse. "Another Time, Another Place" is Keene's first published collection of fiction. The mother of four grown children, Keene lives with her husband, a broadcasting executive, and their four Boston Terriers in Princeton, New Jersey.