Publisher's Synopsis
"Our Small Town World" is a collection of forty-four feature stories I have written for my hometown weekly newspaper, The Express, over the past eleven years. When I began this venture, my goal was to bring to light the history, heritage and heart of these small communities that to me are the personification and the essence of this great country we live in. And America is a great country because of the hard-working and unassuming people who are the rocks upon which it was built. Too often, the good things that go on in the small towns that are off the radar go unnoticed and unheralded. But we are America. We in the small town world are the doers, the helpers, the protectors, the caregivers, the keepers of the flame. I may live in a small town world, but in eleven years I have had little trouble finding stories worth writing or neighbors worth writing about. It has been my privilege and my honor to be able to record just a few of the many great happenings and the many great people that define our own small town world.
Sandra E. McBride is a native of Mechanicville New York. Married for more than a half century to Tom McBride, she and Tom ran their dairy farm for more than twenty years, then she worked for the Mechanicville Public Schools for twenty more years. Upon retirement, Sandy pursued her lifelong dream of becoming a writer. Taking courses from the Institute of Children's Literature, she had short stories and poetry published in various books, magazines and anthologies. Sandy has published two books of poetry, "Mist Upon the Pond" and "Meadow Flowers," and in 2009 published a children's story about families in the path of the American Revolution entitled "Finding Goliath and Fred." In 2006 Sandy began writing for her hometown's weekly newspaper, The Express, doing feature stories and news items, and completed a four year series on the 150 year anniversary of the American Civil War. In 2016, she published a collection of favorite feature stories in a book called "A Hometown Is . . ." With "Our Small Town World," she continues to share with readers some of her favorite stories from the pages of The Express.
