I’d like to welcome Karen Ingalls as my Guest Writer this week. Before you read her work, you might like to know a little bit about her:

Karen Ingalls is a retired RN, author of three published books, numerous articles, and a blogger at two sites. She is a member of Rave Reviews Book Club, Author Blogger Rainbow Support Club, Independent Author’s Network, and Author Resource Room. She welcomes authors and avid readers to her blog at kareningalls.blogspot.com.

Here she introduces her work:

Augustus Saint-Gaudens was America’s premier sculptor in the late 1800s to early 1900s. He was a contemporary of Rodin; he was the last of the traditional sculptors who had brought a new vision to sculpture; and he was the designer of the $20.00 gold piece, considered to be America’s most beautiful coin.

Davida Johnson Clark emigrated from Sweden with her mother and was known by the name…