Debbie Barry

I Am Zoa Debbie Barry

I Am Zoa is a collection of personal and family stories that I inherited from my paternal grandmother, Zoa Fletcher, and is embellished with a selection of family photographs. Although I was not as close to Grandma Fletcher as I was to Nana, my maternal grandmother, the stories that she told us are still very important to me. They represent a large part of my heritage. So, I decided to gather her stories into a single volume, which you now hold. Through these stories, the reader may catch a glimpse of the rural history and culture of Vermont at the end of the 19th and the early 20th Century. From Irish emigrants escaping the mid-th Century Potato Famine, and from pre-Revolutionary English colonists, the family stories carry the reader almost to my own lifetime, through war and poverty, education and new marriage, Grandma Fletcher's stories will captivate and delight audiences young and old.