About the Author
Connie Condron Dow grew up on a family farm near Blue Mound, Missouri. As an adult she has been an educator in the field of Gifted Education. She enjoys teaching children about writing, creativity, and history. Connie is a wife, mother of four, and grandmother of six. Besides writing children's fiction she likes reading, photography, painting, baking, and designing quilts.
Ms. Dow grew up on the Condron homestead, the oldest child of Jack and Rosa Condron. Throughout her life, she heard bits of stories of that long-ago War Between the States when her Grandmother’s family members fought for the North and her Grandfather’s family members fought for the South and how her Great-Great-Grandfather Peter asked his great grandson’s wife never to sing “Marching through Georgia” while rocking the babies.
The Condron homestead has been in her family for generations, starting with the first Peter Condron who came to America from Ireland.
Her book series, Mary Rose of Blue Mound, is fictional, but is based on some of the old family tales and how the author imagined the women on the farm lived and survived.
Ms. Dow grew up on the Condron homestead, the oldest child of Jack and Rosa Condron. Throughout her life, she heard bits of stories of that long-ago War Between the States when her Grandmother’s family members fought for the North and her Grandfather’s family members fought for the South and how her Great-Great-Grandfather Peter asked his great grandson’s wife never to sing “Marching through Georgia” while rocking the babies.
The Condron homestead has been in her family for generations, starting with the first Peter Condron who came to America from Ireland.
Her book series, Mary Rose of Blue Mound, is fictional, but is based on some of the old family tales and how the author imagined the women on the farm lived and survived.