LETTERS TO BOLIVAR

Herald-Free Press Columns 1981-84

Coming soon, at long last, is a collection of more than 100 historic columns, arranged according to subject matter and timbre.  They begin with a grouping called “Déjà Vu,” nostalgic writings of Bolivar and Pleasant Hope.  It will surprise no one that this section also contains details of Washington, D.C., Betty Jean Steinshouer’s new hometown as of 1980. The demise of the Washington Star and the dedication of the Vietnam Memorial were as personal to her as if they had happened in Bolivar.  Her readers let her know that reading each week about such far-away events in the Herald-Free Press made the Nation’s Capital their hometown, too.