A Superior native has become an author at age 90.
Ruth Legg turned her adventurous life into a historic novel about life in the first half of the 20th Century. It's about the real people and their lives who live at a time of wealthy, highly-respected lumberman. The story is a tale about a farmer who married a sophisticated, high society, New York maiden lady and their two children, as told through the life of their beautiful, extremely smart blonde daughter, Laura.
Life is orderly, calm, peaceful and a sophisticated while the father was alive, but became bereft with greed and full of skullduggery after his death. It demonstrates that through life's trials and tribulations one can still succeed by determination, hard work and enterprise.
Legg, who now lives in Mesa, Ariz., was born Ruth Martin and grew up in Superior. the daughter of Carl Charles Martin. She graduated from Central High School in 1937 before heading to New York where she married into a wealthy family.
Her family owned a large farm in Poplar that her brother Edward Martin ran after her father's death until her brother became a builder in Solon Springs.
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She said even at 90, she has other books in the works.
"Good Morning World" is available at www.amazon.com .
