Engaging Life

<p><strong style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)><em>Engaging Life: Memoirs of a Charming Willful Southern Woman of the 20th Century</em></strong><em style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)> </em><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>chronicles the true story of the life of Marcellite a mischievous sophisticated and thoroughly Southern woman with great depth of character. </span><span style=color: rgba(24 22 24 1)>Highly social and fun-loving Marcellite-</span><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>cousin once removed of author Dr. Henry Dolive and granddaughter of </span><strong style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)><em>A Touch of Glory!</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)> protagonist William Louis Dolive- immersed herself</span><span style=color: rgba(24 22 24 1)> with people and their activities everywhere she went.</span><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)> Like </span>its prequel which takes place two generations prior during Reconstruction <strong><em>Engaging Life</em></strong> is packed with three-dimensional characters full of vim and vigor and humorous action.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)><em>Engaging </em></strong><strong style=color: rgba(43 42 42 1)><em>Life </em></strong><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>highlights various stages of Marcellite's life from her childhood until her death at 102 including three marriages although she only counted two. Her life </span><span style=color: rgba(24 22 24 1)>was shaped by the fascinating history of her time: World War I living in southern cities the Roaring Twenties the Great Depression and in her second 34-year military marriage World War II post-war Germany the Korean Conflict Huntsville and the space race caring for her mother on the historic family grove another marriage and extensive travel-both domestic and overseas. Although she had no biological children of her own Marcellite was a cherished mothe</span><span style=color: rgba(58 56 58 1)>r</span><span style=color: rgba(24 22 24 1)> and grandmother to her descendants by marriage.</span></p>