Cress Delahanty, by Jessamyn West, chapters 1 and 2

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. This is the first episode of Cress Delahanty, a book I loved when I read it first years and years ago. The author, Jessamyn West, was born in 1902. She moved to Orange County, California in 1908 when there were citrus groves and rural areas filled with birdsong and open spaces. This is the setting of the story we will be listening to for the next while. It begins when Cress, whose full name is Crescen...