My Redroom URL

• http://www.redroom.com/member/sueglasco

About Me

• Sue Glasco spent her childhood in the small town of Jonesboro in Southern Illinois and she has loved small towns ever since. During the four summer months when her teacher parents had no salary, she spent  her early summers at Mt. Airy Farm near Goreville, Illinois, and she has loved rural life ever since.   After college at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, she spent that first summer in Greenwich Village and has loved being in cities ever since.  After one year of teaching in a Chicago suburb, she married agriculture student Gerald D. Glasco.  After he finished his masters at the University of Illinois and taught one term at Western Illinois University, they were able to lease a farm in the Mississippi River bottoms.  After three years there, they moved to Columbiana Ranch on the banks of the Illinois River before they had the  opportunity to go in debt and buy a farm in Williamson County, Illinois, in coal mining country.  They have continuing farming there although Gerald is now retired and a son-in-law leases the farm.  Sue's primary vocation was farm wife and rearing four children.  She explains she had a haphazard career in education as a substitute teacher in K-12; a part time English, speech, and journalism teacher on secondary level and at area community colleges; and finally a Franklin County family literacy coordinator for Rend Lake College.  She retired in 1998 and returned to writing in her spare time, which is scarce, since she is still involved with housewifery, children, and grandchildren.  As a 74-year-old, she is delighted to be in the stimulating company of such up and coming talented 29-year-old achievers who started Red Room. 

Relationship Status

• Over 50 years to Gerald D. Glasco, Sr.

Family

• Four adult children. Nine grandchildren. Two adult step-grandchildren. Two great grandsons. One sister and her husband. One brother and his wife. Two brothers-in-law and wives. One sister-in-law and husband and a widowed sister-in-law.

Interests & Hobbies

• Interests:  writing, reading, neurology, Trail of Tears, local history, family history, religion, education, out-of-doors, agriculture, rural life, girls softball.

Favorite Authors

• In the past-- Fiction/Nonfiction: John Steinbeck, Jesse Stuart, Jan Karon, Madeleine L'Engle, Miss Read, Oliver Sacks Poets: Union County poet Ben Smith of Berryville, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and the late Illinois poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. Children's authors: Peter Catalanotta, Cynthia Rylant, Patricia Polack, Maud Hart Lovelace. Now: usually whomever I am currently reading.

What I'm Reading

• Week of May 5, 2008: Widow of the South by Robert Hicks; African Women's Poetry, edited by Stella and Frank Chipasula; The Cherokee Trail of Tears with photographs by David G. Fitzgerald, and text by Duane King.

WORK

• Sue Glasco is a writer and speaker on local history, family education, and inspirational topics. A retired farmer's wife, mother of four adult children and grandmother of eleven, Glasco has been a community volunteer throughout her life and draws upon rich experiences as she writes humorous, inspirational, and informative features. She has a master's degree in speech communication from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and has taught speech and/or English as an adjunct instructor for Shawnee College, Southeastern Illinois College, John A. Logan College and McKendree College. She worked as a Franklin County Family Literacy Coordinator for Rend Lake College from 1992-1998. Since retirement she has enjoyed travel with her husband, visits from her grandchildren, lots of girls softball games, and writing a compilation of columns from the 1960s entitled Down on the Farm: One American Family’s Dream. She is researching the Trail of Tears through Southern Illinois and frequently writes or speaks on the Trail.

Web Links

• Down on the Farm
• Priscilla on the Trail of Tears
• Woodsong Notes
• AmazonConnect
• Devotions

EDUCATION

UPCOMING WORK

• Reseaching Trail of Tears through Southern Illinois

INFLUENCES

• Jesse Stuart, Madeliene L'Engle, John Steinbeck, Erma Bombeck, Linda Rush, Diana Dodd, Lynn Dillow Borde

CAUSES I SUPPORT

• Literacy

  Education

  World Hunger

   

UNIVERSITY AFFILIATION

• Southern Illinois University Carbondale

AGENTS

• None

PUBLISHERS

• PublishAmerica

HOW TO CONTACT MY PUBLISHER

• PublishAmerica P.O. Box 252 Frederick, MD 21705 Phone: 314.605.1707 Email: http://www.publishamerica.com/shopping/shopdisplayproducts.asp?Search=Yes