Lynn Wyvill book reading and signing

Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 1:00pm

Downtown Bookstore
948 Second Avenue East
Owen Sound, ON
N4K 2H5

Lynn Wyvill will read from and sign copies of Agnes Annis: Mother and Missionary at the Downtown Bookstore, Owen Sound, on Sunday December 4 at 1:00 p.m.

Lynn's latest book tells the story of her grandmother, Agnes Gregg Davis, who spent her childhood in an orphanage, then married a Methodist minister. Soon after marriage and with an infant daughter in arms she left with her husband in 1916 for West China.

Here is a moving and vivid story of what it meant to be a missionary wife in a troubled and fascinating time and place. During their years in China, three of the couple's sons were born, including Lloyd who, as an adult, practised medicine in Owen Sound.

After returning to Canada, they moved to various charges of the newly-formed United Church of Canada. Always, Agnes lived as a dutiful minister's wife, raising her own children, leading youth groups, and supporting her husband in his calling.

Lynn has published poetry and essays as well as two self-published collections: A Mother's Letters and Wild Clematis. She was Owen Sound and area Poet of the Month in 2009.