Dorothy Fairchild

Recollections Dorothy Fairchild

Shalonda Carter teaches under-prepared students in one of the trailers 'out back'. Her young charges have much catching-up to do. It can be done. Shalonda is proof of that. Twenty-five years earlier she had occupied a chair in their very classroom. Her own story is one of overcoming life's obstacles near the mighty Mississippi River. Recollections entwines Shalonda's days in class and around town; timeouts near the Sebastian Oak; and her evenings in Uncle Sebastian's Civil War diaries.