Repose

Penny Salvia was a formidable, resourceful, and puckish woman from a large Italian family. On a bench, in New York's Bryant Park, in the year 1941, on the 8th of August, Aunt Ginny foretold Penny's future to her on her 18th birthday. This knowledge gave Penny the freedom to enjoy her life without worry of being alone or dwelling in self-pity, for she knew she her lifelong sweetie would find her, but, so too, sorrow frequently would find her.

By the 1950's, Penny's career in Manhattan's fashion district was rising, while at the same time she was steadily falling to spinster status. Just as Aunt Ginny had seen, Penny fell for the man of her dreams. With a heart filled with love and grief, Penny reluctantly chose to give up her family, career in fashion, and sophisticated New York City lifestyle, when her dreamboat brought her up the Hudson River to rural East Nassau in upstate New York's Rensselaer County.

Penny becomes the Town's Trollop Wallop, destroyer of Brussels's sprouts, Queen of the Toboggan, caroler of Christmas, champion to the little guy, and the last woman standing. Throughout, there will be a few laughs, a lot of sighs, and one-too-many cries. Follow her journey, as she navigates small town politics, battles heartless corporations, braves Mother Nature, and faces death itself, all to protect that which is most important.