Leaving Fingerprints

About the Book

Renee Valentine, a drug addict, drunkard, and rape victim, directed her life experience into the creation of “Milagro House,” a women’s shelter that has provided a safe haven for three hundred families. Naomi Feil grew up on the grounds of an old age home, and spent her career teaching caregivers how to handle the demented. Alfreda Robinson walked out of a jail in West Virginia and devoted her life to helping paroled women. Gloria Sananes Stein celebrates twenty-one “quiet Americans,” who helped oil the wheels of change. The fingerprints they leave on people’s lives often resonate beyond expectations.

About the Author

Gloria Sananes Stein, a freelance journalist and educator has spent 25 years writing articles on subjects from ballerinas, cattle contests and church dinners to Civil War Reenactors and local historians. She is the author of Country Legacy: Lancaster County One-Room Schools, Marguerite: Journey of a Sephardic Woman, and Leaving Fingerprints. She is currently working on a travel guide to Florida’s exotic barrier islands. Stein is the mother of three children and lives in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Arnold, a photographer.