Sometimes life will spoon up an adventure when you least expect it. Certainly my sister Becca and I were not expecting (or deserving) one on that sweltering southern day in 1949. Little did we know then that three exciting things would come together to make that summer unforgettable: our father bought a silver Cessna airplane; we spent a wild week with our Smoky Mountain cousins; and moonshiner-bootlegger Arlo T. Faust outraged the locals. (Could he be Saved against his will at the Cedar Grove Free Will Baptist Church?) In The Glory Of The Morning is a story inspired by our memories. It is (mostly) fiction, and names and places are (mostly) imaginary - to protect the guilty. We hope you will have as much fun reading it as we had creating it! Jennifer Hamilton Calvert has been a freelance writer and photographer. Her bachelor's degree in journalism is from the University of Tennessee. She has contributed numerous articles to newspapers, magazines, and literary journals, and has been a guest panelist on TV and radio programs. She was recipient of a Kodak International Newspaper Snapshot Special Merit Award. Her work was exhibited at National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, and EPCOT Center, Lake Buena Vista, Florida. She was named Guest Editor at Mademoiselle Magazine, won a Seventeen Magazine prize for fiction, and received the Jean Lieberman Poetry Prize. She was named to Marquis Who's Who in the South and Southwest. Brenda Hamilton has a master's degree in school administration. She is president and founder of Hamilton Learning Foundation, a visionary system for developing human potential. She conceptualized the nationally acclaimed Practical Arts program and was co-founder and vice president of the Hamilton-Daniel Career Institute. She was appointed to the Tennessee Governor's Task Force Committee on Education and the Board of Directors of the Tennessee School Board Association.