Celia Smith Hill’s journal provides a glimpse of hardscrabble life in far West Texas during the first half of the twentieth century. Hill’s family moved to Texas from Tennessee in the late 1800s. After her death, Bill Wright and Marianne Wood researched the history of the area and interviewed family and friends to provide context for Hill’s colorful tale of endurance in an unforgiving landscape. Hill’s family suffered lean times during the Depression before cinnabar—mercury ore—was discovered on her family’s property. During World War II, the Fresno Mines supplied one tenth of all the mercury produced in the United States. After graduating college, Celia began a peripatetic teaching career that lasted decades, marrying and losing two husbands along the way. Finally, living alone along the most remote western border of Texas, Celia spent her later years selling snacks to the occasional visitor. Bill Wright met Celia at her La Junta General Store in Ruidosa, where she told him about her unfinished journal. With this book Bill fulfills his promise to share her courageous and fascinating life with others.

Dress for Success is a Bible study for women in the form of an instant diary.

It contains three months of guided learning intended for use in a group or by an individual. It covers topics such as surrender, prayer, laughter, temptation, friendship, covenant, and imagination.

Written by an artist and teacher, it also contains a lesson on mind mapping and one on homiletics, a simple method of biblical analysis.

The books goal is to help women of all ages meet both the natural and spiritual worlds clothed with Gods grace.

Celia Smith Hill’s journal provides a glimpse of hardscrabble life in far West Texas during the first half of the twentieth century. Hill’s family moved to Texas from Tennessee in the late 1800s. After her death, Bill Wright and Marianne Wood researched the history of the area and interviewed family and friends to provide context for Hill’s colorful tale of endurance in an unforgiving landscape. Hill’s family suffered lean times during the Depression before cinnabar—mercury ore—was discovered on her family’s property. During World War II, the Fresno Mines supplied one tenth of all the mercury produced in the United States. After graduating college, Celia began a peripatetic teaching career that lasted decades, marrying and losing two husbands along the way. Finally, living alone along the most remote western border of Texas, Celia spent her later years selling snacks to the occasional visitor. Bill Wright met Celia at her La Junta General Store in Ruidosa, where she told him about her unfinished journal. With this book Bill fulfills his promise to share her courageous and fascinating life with others.

Dress for Success is a Bible study for women in the form of an instant diary.

It contains three months of guided learning intended for use in a group or by an individual. It covers topics such as surrender, prayer, laughter, temptation, friendship, covenant, and imagination.

Written by an artist and teacher, it also contains a lesson on mind mapping and one on homiletics, a simple method of biblical analysis.

The books goal is to help women of all ages meet both the natural and spiritual worlds clothed with Gods grace.