title: Life in a Mountain Town 'Mayhill, New Mexico': Memoirs of a Mountain Girl
author: Deloris Kay Ward
description: A girl born and reared in a mountain community of mostly farmers, loggers, and forest workers. She grew up on a farm that was homesteaded by her great- grandfather, Joel Warner Curtis, and owned by her grandparents during the years of growing up. An era of hard work and determination from the depression of the 40's. She was born April 18, 1940 in her parent's home, to wonderful Christian parents. She attended school at Mayhill, New Mexico, in a two room schoolhouse from 1946 to 1952. From 1952 to Dec. 1957 attended school in Cloudcroft, New Mexico in may of 1958. She attended Kearney State University, Kearney, Nebraska for a semester majoring in Art with a 4.0 average. She retired from Tri-County Senior Center in Monte Vista, Colorado in April 2002 where she had held the job of Activity Direction plus a few other jobs on the side. She married Jerry K. Ward on 2/14/88 in Monte Vista, Colorado and between them they had eight children, nineteen grand children and seven great-grand children. She lost her beloved Jerry on May 29 2012 but not before he made provision for this book to be published
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  Anna (Nan) Shepherd was born in 1893 and died in 1981. Closely attached to
  Aberdeen and her native Deeside, she graduated from her home University in
  1915, and went to work for the next forty-one years as a lecturer in English
  at what is now Aberdeen College of Education. An enthusiastic gardener and
  hill walker, she made many visits to the Cairngorms with students and friends
  and was a keen member of the Deeside Field Club. Her last book, a non-fiction
  study called _The Living_ _Mountain_ , testifies to her love of the hills and
  her knowledge of them in all their moods. Her many further travels included
  visits to Norway, France, Italy, Greece, and South Africa, but she always
  returned to the house where she was raised and lived almost all her adult
  life, in the village of West Cults, three miles from Aberdeen on North
  Deeside.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Nan Shepherd wrote three 