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.
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