Vacation Verses

Vacation Verses is the first published collection of poems by Alice Mary Dowd. Many of the pieces demonstrate her love of nature and the beauty that surrounds one in the everyday. Even though Dowd spent more time out of West Virginia than in it, there is an air of Appalachian feeling to many of the selections.  Vacation Verses certainly pays homage to Greenbrier County, the area of her birth.     Born in December of 1855 in Greenbrier County West Virginia, Dowd was the d