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Mary Lois Timbes

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Mary Lois Timbes Adshead has lived in New York City and Geneva, Switzerland, Fairhope, Alabama,Hoboken, New Jersey and now resides in Kingston, New York.

Born in Mobile, she was raised in nearby Fairhope, a unique community founded in 1894 as a utopian colony to demonstrate the efficacy of Henry George's economic theory of the single tax. She graduated from the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education and went to college with the dream of becoming an actress. She studied acting in New York with Peggy Feury and Lee Strasberg and worked as a journalist and in public relations before marrying Jim Adshead and moving to Geneva where she founded an American community theater.

Returning to Fairhope, she worked at the Marietta Johnson Museum and
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21st Century of Books

My novel That Was Tomorrow was conceived as a trip back in time, a gentle story based in history, providing an escape from the stress of too much to do, too many gadgets, too many obligations, and the demands of daily life in the 21st century. It concerns a young schoolteacher, who joins a utopian experiment in 1921, in order to learn a method of education that will change the world.

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“It should not be a surprise, even if it is not expected, if a shadow dances among the leaves, a face appears (or seems to), even a community of phantoms from the past. Here you will find answers, questions, and a host of stories.”
Mary Lois Timbes

“I see the old even as I am looking at the new--the storefronts now occupied by up-to-date boutiques and trendy retail shops. It's almost like being in two places at the same time.”
Mary Lois Timbes

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
Edith Wharton

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
Gore Vidal, Julian

“Angry people are not always wise.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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