The Pier

A great-grandmother, Eve Bates has announced her fourth literary project, The Pier: Glimpses of My Exotic Life on Bone’s Jax Beach Fishing Pier, 1972–1983. This pier proved to be where she witnessed many auspicious events. Her first book, Sudiev! Good-bye!: Joys and Hardships of a Lithuanian Immigrant Girl (a parental biography), has a permanent home at the Statue of Liberty Museum Library at Ellis Island, New York. Her two other books, collections of eclectic short stories, are titled My Speckled Tales and Other Dimensions and More Speckled Tales. Eve Bates transformed her life from the child of immigrant tomato growers to that of a sophisticated traveler. She has been to most continents and major cities of the world. Her travels began when she married Linwood Tomlinson Bates, a Hamilton watch salesman, and together they attended his international sales meetings. She remembers a wonderful childhood on a Burlington, New Jersey, farm. Eve has enjoyed a fulfilling life as a wife, a mother of two and grandmother of three, and finally, as a writer and storyteller. She maintains a membership with the Tale Tellers of St. Augustine, Florida, who recount their marvelous stories in schools, churches, and theaters. The author hopes you’ll find The Pier’s strange characters as engaging as she did.