![]() ![]() Santmyer’s book achieved its exalted best-seller status when its author was in her 80’s – a fact that I hope will remind all you writers out there to keep writing and never give up. And judging from Ohio Town, Helen Hooven Santmyer’s appealing memoir about growing up in the southwest Ohio community of Xenia, an Ohio town is a pleasant place indeed in which to spend one’s childhood.Īuthor Santmyer is probably best known for her 1985 bestseller “…And Ladies of the Club.” That book, the story of a women’s literary and community-service club in the fictional town of Worthington, Ohio, is one that I am sure was read by a lot of ladies in a lot of clubs, as it was, in its time, the largest-selling paperback ever. Its small towns are particularly pleasant places – neat little rectilinear communities nestled among the tidy farms, rolling hills, and meandering waterways of the Buckeye State. Ohio is such a beautiful state – heart-shaped (the signs at the state line say “Ohio – The Heart of It All!”), with the Ohio River forming its entire southern border. ![]()
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