Kate's Great-aunt May Zeigler was a very important family influence in Kate's formative years. May was a professor of education at the University of Georgia for almost 40 years, but spent her retirement years in her native Orangeburg, South Carolina. As young children, Kate and her sisters often visited May, and Kate recounts in A Gracious Plenty her colorful memories of those early times.
Kate's Great-aunt May Zeigler was a very important family influence in Kate's formative years. May was a professor of education at the University of Georgia for almost 40 years, but spent her retirement years in her native Orangeburg, South Carolina. As young children, Kate and her sisters often visited May, and Kate recounts in A Gracious Plenty her colorful memories of those early times.