The Hope Chest

Eva Jeannette Carey 1912- Jeanne Carey-1995 are blood-linked heart -sisters their lives and loves reflected across a century. The Hope Chest tells the story of two women at each end of the twentieth century as they meet through the journals of the earliest a schoolmarm from the Nebraska prairie. Eva Jean?s journals and her needlework tell the story of her life in the early 1900?s. But it takes her own grand-niece 83 years later to put the full story together and discover America?s early rigid code of morality the beginnings of modern communication and an inspiring love story.