My Mother's Garden

My Mother's Garden contains the author's personal experiences from the time he entered school until he retired after a forty year career in education at all levels from K-6 through the Junior College level. The author shows how he was influenced by the many intelligent women teachers and how he used many of their kind skills during his educational career. The material takes you through each phase of his social, economic, and political life. These are firsthand experiences that he personally encountered. The setting of this material starts in a small town where he was born, educated, and began his teaching career and then ends in the county seat of San Joaquin Valley County. This is farming country with diverse products that provided the opportunity for many migrant workers to earn a living. He and his parents, brothers, and sisters were a few of the migrants that harvested the crops for farmers in this area. The material moves from one phase of his life to another describing how his earlier years had an influence on him. My Mother's Garden is not only about his mother's flowers, but also about her personal garden--her family.