A daughter praises the strength of her extraordinary mother who was not expected to survive an unknown illness at birth; yet, she not only survived, she went on to overcome tremendous, almost insurmountable odds, including, but not limited to a childhood of extreme poverty, abuse, child labor, alcoholic parents, the Great Depression, sharecropping with devious and unscrupulous landowners as well as the racism typical of the Jim Crow South, all to realize her dream of a better life. To escape the abuse of her father, who shot at her when she was fifteen, she dropped out of school and married along the side of the road. After domestic abuse and eleven children, she earned her GED, and obtained a college degree. She would later enter Howard University and be accepted into Spelman College at age seventy-three.In December, 2015, at eighty-four, twenty years after she began penning her autobiography, and surviving a massive stroke and breast cancer, Stokestown: Dreaming behind Closed Doors was released. In this we see the fierce and resilient spirit of a warrior general and a most unlikely champion birthed from the womb of mourning. It is in this vein of unwavering faith, that this memoir is written to my mother, Hattie Vance Wellington and affirms that dreams come true at any age if we just don't quit.
About the Author: Doris Wellington began her romance with words at age six in Wilson, North Carolina. She attended The American University in Washington, DC and was was ordained to ministry in 1984. She has authored, twenty epic stage plays, including the celebrated allegorical production, I Waltzed with God the Morning of Genesis: A Mosaic for Peace, Dead Woman Dancing on Her Grave, and God, I'm Here and I'm Colored. She's the author of the thirteen-book poetic epistolary, entitled: Romancing God: The Divine Love Affair; as well as The Divine Notebook, The Dear John Reader, and The Poverty Manifesto. Additionally, she has authored four novels, and one memoir, The River God Runs through Her. She coauthored, Stokestown: Dreaming behind Closed Doors., 2015. She has recorded and studied more than 20 000 prophetic dreams, used in the curriculum of The Prophetic Path Dream Summit, which she founded to teach the prophetically inclined to tap into the hidden power of dreams. She travels internationally as a minister, motivational speaker and life coach. She lives and pastors in Atlanta, Georgia