Margaret Silf is the creator of the best-selling New York Times Best Seller, A Mother's Story: An Oral History of the Great Depression. Silf was born in 1923 and grew up on a farm near Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She spent most of her childhood helping on the farm, but she did get to go to school. When she was twelve, she went to work in the coal mines
After graduating from high school, Silf married her sweetheart and began working in the coal mines with him. Silf's husband died in an accident. A year later, her mother died of tuberculosis.
Silf moved back in with her parents until they passed away in 1944. She married again in 1946, had five children, and worked as a seamstress for over thirty years.
We are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destructionMargaret Silf
We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy groundMargaret Silf
