Avis (Nikki) Baldwin Day

     I married Davis Knights in 1952. We had five children and lived in Massachusetts
and South Carolina. We divorced in 1978, and I worked variously as a drafter,
receptionist, nurse's aide, cowhand, sous chef, and flunky for a certified public
accountant. I became a full-time volunteer in 1983, first at Koinonia Partners in
Americus, Georgia, where I met and married John. Later I worked as a food
service manager at a Catholic retreat in Florida; keeper of a Catholic worker house
in West Virginia; and a cook in Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat in the Cascades
in Washington. We returned to West Virginia in 1997 and semiretired to a 100-acre
farm with friends where we garden, play, and raise golden retrievers.

I weave relentlessly and teach weaving at the nearby federal women's prison. We traveled to Greece, Italy, and Switzerland in 1986. I have become a pacifist, feminist, and bleeding-heart liberal, active in politics to the extent of regular correspondence with our state senators.
I couldn't be happier, in our little blue house cobbled together from three coal-camp
shacks in Lost View Hollow under Sassafrass Ridge.