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FROM THE HEART OF LYDIA IBD

DARLENE COLóN / PAM LAZOS / TERRY WEBB
LOCH NESS BOOKS
07 / 2025
9798888193136
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Sinopsis

Was LydiaâÇÖsáBig Questionáanswered? In this historical fiction story, young Lydia Hamilton Smith wondered who her father was.áBorn during the early 1800s in a Gettysburg tavern to a single mother, formerly enslaved, Lydia had to work as a servant just like her mother. The story starts on her fifth birthday.áBoth she and her mother worked for Mrs. Hamilton, a descendant of the tavernâÇÖs founders and the owner of the Russell Tavern. She was demanding, yet her husband was not.áWhen LydiaâÇÖs mother moved out of the tavern, they adopted baby Jane, whose mother died after escaping toward freedom. Lydia learned about freedom seekers, property management, and bookkeeping. Without access to formal education, she adjusted, absorbed, and accommodated. Teenage Lydia found faith and made new friends, going with them to listen to a banjo player named Jacob Smith. The two married and had two sons, then moved to Harrisburg, where Jacob led a band, and they purchased property. Yet, SmithâÇÖs drinking and gambling forced Lydia to get a job to pay the rent, and they separated. Soon after, Lydia accepted an offer from Thaddeus Stevens to be his housekeeper after he had moved to Lancaster.á Lydia then ran Mr. StevensâÇÖ household, raising his two nephews along with her two boys. She had to learn new skills. In addition to managing his household, she oversaw his schedule to ensure the household ran smoothly. As a free woman at a time when blacks lacked basic rights - even those who were three-fourths white and worked for prominent people -she managed to overcome and thrive.

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