Essays of a Moonshiner's Daughter

These stories of Margaret's childhood in the 1960s Detroit, battles with cancer, and sometimes laugh-out-loud adventures as a motherless child of moonshiners, an activist, international traveler and attorney.

Most of the people had moved into the living room. She sat in her bedroom and waited for the tears to come but nothing came. The day had been a whirlwind of activities and most of the time she felt as if she was in a daze. Could it be true that she was now motherless? What would she do? Where would she live? Did she even want to live? Then a voice came from some deep place in her soul. "Yes, you have to live to carry out your mother's dreams. It is up to you." The adventure began. Learn how the teenager moved from motherless to leader with the divine grace of God. Margaret Brown grew up in the 1960's city of Detroit, child of the Detroit riots and civil unrest. This is her story of faith, perseverance and overcoming the odds. She is an attorney, author, mother, retired government executive, visual artist, public speaker, world traveler and grandmother. This three-time breast cancer survivor, car accident survivor that had even experienced surgeons challenged and near death in a drug house! Come along with her to read about a life this daughter of a moonshiner could have never imagined.

Margaret L. M. Brown, a practicing attorney since l988, retired from the Michigan State Housing Development Authority in July 2002 after 29 years as a State employee. Margaret's storied career includes: * Vice President Community Investments of First Independence National Bank of Detroit (FIB) * Executive Director of the affiliated First Independence Community Development Corporation * Margaret L M. Brown, PLC * Consultant for the Detroit Area Agency on Aging, Highland Park Housing Commission, Warren Sherman Area Council (Toledo, OH), First Independence Bank, Title Source * Director of Equal Opportunity and Fair Housing * Executive Director of the Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit Ms. Brown is a native Detroiter. She is a graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. Since retiring Ms. Brown has focused on becoming a visual artist, writer and Nana. She is also the daughter of parents who made and sold moonshine. Ms. Brown resides in Southfield, Michigan.