Gentle Hills

Marjorie Spalsbury was born in 1917 in Logan, Ohio, and lived most of her life in this small bucolic Hocking County town in southeastern Ohio. These poems are a celebration of her love for the beauty and the wonder of the Hocking Hills, a region rich in scenic natural attractions and history. Married for fifty-one years, she raised three children, faithfully attended the First Presbyterian Church, and brought happiness and cheerfulness to everyone she met. In her book of poetry, Gentle Hills, she managed to capture the wonder of daily living and the joy and fun of raising children in a small town nestled in the beautiful Hocking Hills. She loved where she lived, loved the people around her, loved her family and children. She describes that joy and pleasure in these poems, which she wrote from the 1970 and early 1980s. She died in 2007 and is remembered for her smile, her kindness, her love for everyone, and her deep abiding faith in God and all his children.