Nardi Reeder Campion (1917–2007)

Nardi Reeder Campion is the author of seven other books, including Bringing Up the Brass by Sergeant Marty Maher with Colonel Red Reeder (the basis for a major motion picture The Long Gray Line) and Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers (reissued by UPNE in 1990). Her writing has been toon meer published in The New York Times (including ten op-ed pieces), the Boston Globe, Reader's Digest, the Chicago Tribune, the New Yorker, Yankee, and other publications. Since 1987, she has written a regular column, "Everyday Matters," for the Valley News (Lebanon, N.H.)-and she's still at it toon minder