Nobody Much: Life on the Farm with Granny Cool

In 1948 at the age of 57 Margaret Cantrell an ex-Ziegfeld Follies singing star from Southern Illinois married for the first time. Her bridegroom was Mac McIntyre a childhood friend who had recently been widowed and in one fell swoop she became stepmother mother-in-law and a grandmother. From her post-Broadway career as a receptionist for a large New York corporation she moved to a Long Island farm and began the life of a country housewife. The family she inherited included three stepchildren their spouses and eventually twelve step-grandchildren. This lighthearted memoir of how she influenced that family particularly the author and changed forever their perception of what a stepmother mother-in-law and grandmother should be.