Peggy Harris was eight years old when the stock market crashed in 1929. The three Iowa banks owned by her family went into bankruptcy, taking her family from affluence to poverty overnight. This is the story of that change in her words 80 years later. It tells of the compassion she learned from suffering, and of the hope which ultimately prevailed.

Located in the northern tip of Kentucky and fortuitously bordered by rivers on two sides, Newport has flourished for over 200 years. Col. James Taylor of Caroline County, Virginia, received a military grant for 1,500 acres, and his son Hubbard selected and surveyed a tract of wilderness along the Ohio River. This area was chosen and named Newport in honor of Christopher Newport, a British privateer who commanded several early expeditions to Virginia, including the voyage transporting the first permanent colonists to Jamestown. With the establishment of a diverse mixture of businesses and the...