School Years
Ouachita High School
Young Sherry during her school years in Monroe, before the many changes and seasons that would follow.
Her Sky Had Seasons
People, Places & Memories
A companion gallery to the novel, bringing together the faces and places behind Sherry's story.
People
The Faces Behind the Story
Young Motherhood
Young Mom
Sherry in the early years of marriage and motherhood, at home during one of the first seasons of the family she and Gerald were building.
Family
Thera Fitzgerald
Sherry's mother. Thera created warmth and stability around the family while running her beauty shop, balancing the silence and scars Aubrey carried home from war.
An Earlier Season
Sherry
Everyday Life
Sherry in the Kitchen
Cooking was a normal sight wherever Sherry called home. Her kitchen was one of the places where she cared for the people around her, and good food remained a constant throughout her life.
Years in Motion
Sherry
Later Years
Sherry and Gerald, Later in Life
Sherry relaxes with a Coke beside Gerald during one of their later years together.
1963
Wedding Day
Family
Bill and Mae Petty
Gerald's parents and Sherry's in-laws. Their home became the first place Gerald and Sherry lived together after their wedding.
1980
Family
1987
The Thornes
1987
Sherry and Gerald
Family
Aubrey
Family Companion
Buffy
The family dog during the Rheatown years, remembered as part of the ordinary life of the Thorne household.
Places
Homes, Work & Roads Traveled
Pumpkinbloom
A place tied to a later season of the story.
Ruston
One of the homes connected to the family's years in Louisiana.
The Petty Home
A family place remembered across generations.
Rheatown House
A Tennessee home connected to another chapter of family life.
Plum Street
A house tied to the family's movement through the years.
Seventh Street
Another home from the changing geography of the story.
Nolichuckey Industries
Work, friendships, and another important setting.
Daytona
Racing, travel, and the larger world beyond home.
Daytona Beach Marina
A glimpse of another season and another place.
In Memory & Awareness
The illnesses that shaped her later years.
Sherry lived with both COPD and Alzheimer's disease. Those illnesses became part of the later seasons of her life and changed daily life for her and for the people who loved her.
The organizations below provide education, support and resources for families facing the same diseases.
