Orchard, Donna F.

Donna F. Orchard is a writer and former school administrator living in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. In 2007, she began this memoir of her Louisiana childhood as the daughter of a roughneck oilman in the 1950s. She never expected oil to make another dramatic appearance in her life or in the lives of her neighbors. Her book is dedicated to the roughnecks who lost their lives in the Deepwater Horizon Offshore Drilling Rig Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010.