Harriet "Hattie" Parker saw a lot of changes in the world during her long life. Born in 1880, she lived through two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Space Age, and the invention of television, automobiles, and airplanes. Always interested in the world, she collected articles of current events and people and pasted them into scrapbooks. She saved obituaries and local news items. But perhaps her favorite thing to do was to make up rhymes in her head about various topics. At about the age of 80, she finally started putting pen to paper and writing poetry. She wrote about...