Mary Lynn I. Archibald's Books
Feb.29.2008
May you live in interesting times, says the toast.
This woman did. Born in southeastern Kentucky, she lived through World War I, the Depression and World War II, constantly maintaining her optimism about life, and about people.
Briarhopper: A History, is the true story of a shy, beautiful girl's journey from the hollers of Kentucky across the country during the depths of the...
Oct.15.2007
With One Stroke of the Pen, Their Dream of a Peaceful Rural Escape Evaporated. Before They Knew What Happened, They Were Ranchers.
“We’d planned to relax on 120 acres of lush beauty, but instead found we had inherited six cows, two cats, a flock of wild turkeys, and a working cattle ranch,” says Mary Lynn Archibald, author of Accidental Cowgirl: Six Cows, No Horse and No Clue, a...
Real-Life Ranch Tale Serves as Warning to Weary Urbanites.
Everyone has a story to tell just from living. But the key is in the storytelling.
By that paradigm, Mary Lynn Archibald is one great storyteller, and her memoir is at the same time sad and funny, but it is a story worth reading. It is the story of a couple of crazy urbanites who dream of escaping the dreary existence of the rat race, and become (sic) country squires on 120 acres of lush rural beauty called Twin Creeks Ranch...
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—Published by Capital Press: The West's Ag Website—by Bill Duncan
About Mary Lynn
Mary Lynn Archibald is a freelance copywriter, editor and author of two memoirs: Briarhopper: A History, and Accidental Cowgirl: Six Cows, No Horse and No Clue.
A former interior designer and teacher of art, design and autobiography, Mary Lynn has been a...
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Causes Mary Lynn Archibald Supports
Battered Women's Shelter, SPCA, Healdsburg Animal Shelter, Nature Conservancy
Mary Lynn’s Favorite Books
Siddhartha, A Man In Full, Interpreter of Maladies, Sea of Poppies, Water for Elephants, Green Grass-Blue Water,
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