Bøker av Grace Boykin

Grace, a renowned bestselling author, hails from Mobile, Alabama, and later made Florida her home. She is a multifaceted storyteller and adventurer with an insatiable quest for captivating narratives to bring to life on the screen.Grace has worn various hats in her career, including roles in teaching, volunteer public relations, and fundraising. Her passion for storytelling led her to become a celebrated novelist. Beyond words, she's a certified scuba diver, an avid golfer, and a proficient swimmer with advanced skills. Grace is equally comfortable gliding on water skis, carving through snow on skis, and engaging in outdoor pursuits like hunting and fishing.

The story has many twists and turns of all the characters involved. The caregivers and teachers who were friends working at the Florida Deaf and Blind School in St. Augustine, Florida were on vacation in Breckenridge, Colorado. They went snow skiing for the first time and the girl stayed on the beginner slopes. As her male friend went on an advanced slope by accident. The ski patrol is looking for him and suspect foul play. When the missing person was reported to police they immediately started questioning and interrogating the family.

The story of the Good Klan. The Ku Klux Klan is one of the most notorious organizations in the United States, known for its bigotry, racism, and violence. But what is little known is that there was an organization that was founded to counter the Klan.The Kounter Klan, formed by Frank W. Boykin (1865-1969) in 1924, consisted of blacks, Jews, Catholics and a few protestants and minorities who retaliated against the KKK. Frank went on to become a Congressman in Alabama for 28 years and purchased 800 green robes to outfit the volunteers.This book embraces the side of Frank's life that people never knew about, including witnessing the warrior Chief Geronimo in shackles and socializing with presidents such as FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy, to name a few. Frank was an avid hunter and fisherman.

It tells a story of grandparents in the 1800s as judges in Missouri and those on the Supreme Court of Missouri on my mother's side of the family, then Congressman Frank W. Boykin of Mobile, Alabama, on my father's side of the family.Some highlights from the manuscript: Congressman Boykin started the multiethnic, multireligious Kounter Klan to challenge the corrupt Ku Klux Klan in Alabama and other Southern States.He served in Congress for over twenty-eight years but remained a man of the people.Boykin was also involved in real estate, where he purchased more than three million acres during his lifetime, developing Homosassa Springs in Florida with President Truman's brother. He had over eighteen different businesses, including in timber, farming, cattle raising, and shipbuilding.Boykin's suggestion is untold history setting the English Channel ablaze during World War II and helped thwart the Nazi invasion of the country of England.Also, a movie that was to be made in the '50s and '60s by Breedlove Production Company in Los Angeles, California, have been unable to find out if it is sitting in a can in a Hollywood, California, studio and if it was ever made. Charlton Heston was proposed to star in it, and the title was trademarked called Everything Is Made for Love, Frank Boykin's motto for over forty years.It tells of sexual and physical abuse, bullying through childhood to adulthood, divorces, being conned, and the con receiving seven years in prison, having four fathers from age two to fourteen. Travel experiences to other countries and of family, children, cousins, abduction, and the way to learning one's true self and identity.