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Fire at the Stymie Club is a retrospective collection of stories set mainly in St. Louis, in Springfield, Illinois and in Maryland, along the Chesapeake Bay's western shore, where author Sandra Olivetti Martin was co-founder and publisher of a widely read newspaper, Bay Weekly. The book includes versions of her prize-winning stories for that paper.. The title of the books stems from Sandra's girlhood, in St. Louis above a restaurant and supper club operated by her father, a charming bookmaker, and her mother, the glamorous daughter of Italian immigrants. Her family's Stymie Club offers an enticing setting for the book's first story with its extralegal doings and the perfumy sensuality of female clientele and waitresses looking out for precocious little Sandra. The book also includes features and columns written for the flourishing sister independent, Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois, and reflecting the ethos of a capital deeply connected to Abraham Lincoln in an era when women's rights and freedoms took center stage in lawmaking. Journalism continues with memoirs of her life and family into the 19th century. Other memoirs are personal essays of deeper intimacy.

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ONE-Fire at the Stymie Club TWO-Past Tense Finding My Roots in Italy 1 The Untimely Death of James Smith 1 Am Liking This Life Just Fine 1 THREE-Getting Personal How I Chose My Birthday 1 Intruders 1 Best Friends, Bonded over Baseball 1 The Great St. Louis Snowstorm 1 At Piazza della Repubblica, a Sunset Melon 1 At Ballymaloe, a Feast-Filled Journey to Ireland 1 The Story of My Hands 1 At the Mother Love Dinner Table 1 My Twin Son: A Lifelong Story 1 The Humbling 1 FOUR-The Character of Lincoln Land What It's Like to Look Like Abe Lincoln 1 Abraham Lincoln's Totem Poles 1 After 444 Days, A Hostage Comes Home to Illinois 1 Masters in the Art of Shine 1 A Homebirth Teacher Gives Birth 1 Fasting is Unladylike 1 vi vii EIGHT-Misbehavior The Lawrenceville Peephole Incident 1 Women Who Kill in Self-Defense 1 A Christmas Skyjacking 1 Wanda Was Wronged 1 NINE-Welcomes A First: Grandson John Alexander 'Jack' Knoll Jr. 1 Elsa Leigh Knoll Enters the World 1 Hello There Ada Olivia Knoll 1 TEN-Farewells Vera's Last Act 1 Vera Freeman: Empress of Glamor 1 Sue Eslinger: Celebrating the Last Stands 1 of Anachronisms Sherryl Kirkpatrick: In Our Eden, She Was Eve 1 The Bay Gardener: Dr. Francis Gouin 1 Sonia Linebaugh: Her Pilgrim Soul Tarried with Us 1 to Make New Bay Times M.L. Faunce: What We Said Before She Died 1 Philip Tinsley: A Man Who Lived and Died with All He Wanted 1 Gene Martin: A Toast to My Father 1 Reminder for My Mother: Elsa Olivetti Martin 1

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Sandra Olivetti Martin is best known as founding editor, publisher andcolumnist at Bay Weekly, which began in Chesapeake country 30years ago as New Bay Times. She is a graduate of St. Joseph's Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, and holds two degrees from St. Louis University.She has taught writing at colleges anduniversities in Illinois, Missouri and Maryland and has written forthe Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and magazines. Shenow is publisher at New Bay Books, which produced 15 titles in itsfirst two years. Sandra grew up in St. Louis above the legendaryStymie Club, from which the book's title is derived, and lives nowalong the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland.

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