Meet Nonie Baskin

Nonie Baskin of Hoot Owl Hollow
(by talented artist Ben Glassco)

"She opens her mouth in wisdom and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue." (Prov. 31:26)

       Over the weekend, my Ben finished the drawing of Nonie Baskin - the last illustration for our soon-to-be-released storybook, Hoot Owl Hollow. Along its pages in the character of this wise and lion-hearted mountain woman are footprints of six extraordinary women: Verna Watson (my mother), Imogene Glassco (my mother-in-law), Willie Elliott, Alandra Parks, Evelyn Baskin, and Nonie Webb. These "steel magnolias" blazed a live-life-righteously-and-courageously trail I aspire to follow.

When earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried 1, what sort of trail will you have left behind?

1 Rudyard Kipling's "L'Envoi - to the Seven Seas"