21 Smithfield Drive
Family Stories
by M. Gail Stelter

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21 Smthfield Drive is part family history, part memoir. Author M. Gail Stelter shares these stories across three sections: her parents' lives, leading up to and including World War II, her own childhood in the post-war years, and finally her young adult years when she met the love of her life, Peter. These stories are filled with vulnerability, humour and insight and insight and illuminate the joys and challenges of the times, of family, and of love.

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Gail Stelter, B.A., B Ed, M.Ed., Certificate in Writing, enjoyed a successful career as a teacher, curriculum consultant, elementary school vice principal and principal, and as a university professor on a three-year secondment to a faculty of education. She loved her years as an educator and was pleased to be the recipient of the Prince of Wales award, 1971 as the top student in both practice teaching and academic studies at Lakeshore Teachers’ College. She received the Bronze Medal award from Wilfrid Laurier University for the highest marks achieved by a graduate registered in part-time studies. Gail was also honoured to be the first principal to receive her board’s Principal of the Year award. Gail is currently an author who has published short and flash, micro. and short fiction stories online and in a literary magazine. She also authors stories published every other week in her local newspaper under the heading she created: Writing on the Senior Side. Gail was born and raised in Toronto, in the suburb of Etobicoke. She lives in Haliburton, Ontario, Canada, with the love of her life, Peter. They have been married for fifty-seven years and are parents of four children and grandparents of nine. Gail is currently working on new short fiction stories and a cozy mystery novel.

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