Salter pens book

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:01 AM CDT

"There is a geography to baking bread." - Cathy Salter

For Hartsburg resident Cathy Salter, much of life can be related to the geography of people, place and time.

Salter, a Boone County Journal columnist since 1993, has published a collection of her works into her first book, "Notes From Breakfast Creek."

If you have not read Salter's writings, the book's subtitle, "A Look at the World," will tell you much about her.

Salter taught in south central Los Angeles before working at "National Geographic" in Washington, D.C. She then re-located to Mid-Missouri and learned an entirely different way of life, a rural and farm life.

"I owe so much to neighbors like the Beckmeyers and the Hilgedicks," Salter said. "Their door is always open and they let me come to their homes and the fields and ask all the silly questions."

But while Salter left the city for rural Mid-Missouri, she never left the idea that all things can circle back to place, time and family - the geography of people.

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