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Grownups telling family history about relatives in the Civil War are Gari’s earliest memories. Her instructions were to learn the stories and pass them on to the next generations.

Gari graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, and studied at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia, and Middlebury College. She speaks French, Spanish, Italian and English. She held positions in Washington at the Embassy of Bolivia and the Embassy of France; worked for Frontier Airlines, taught French and Spanish, and opened and ran a successful clothing & gift shop in Virginia.

Her life then changed abruptly, as she describes in her first book, Healing Myself. Gari and her eleven-year-old son were driving to a gift show to find more items for h ...more

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Average rating: 4.88 · 16 ratings · 1 review · 4 distinct works

	The Bone Ring 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Healing Myself: A Hero's Primer for Recovery from Trauma by Gari Carter (Goodreads Author), Robert Monroe 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Troubled State: Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Troubled State: Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick by Franklin Archibald Dick, Gari Carter (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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1816 and Froze to Death

In 1816, the year of Colonel Leonard's birth, (1816 and froze to death) European crops failed from the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora. It was the most powerful eruption in recorded history. England had an economic crisis after the end of the Napoleonic wars, causing massive immigration from England to Canada and the United States.

That same year, Indiana became the nineteenth U.S. state, Argentina Read more of this blog post »

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