MEET The Help True Stories Of Domestics Eli Heckler combines several passions

Eli Heckler combines several passions in illustrating and crafting this children's tale

Author Jim Dorris is a retired university professor who grew up in Providence

he stumbles into the story of Andrew Scot Foster

A native of Great Barrington

MEET The Help True Stories Of Domestics Eli Heckler combines several passions"My last experience as a maid came in the late 1960s. I accompanied an attorney, his wife and two sons on their weeklong summer vacation at Pawleys Island. Until then the furthest I had traveled was to visit cousins in Columbia, 45 miles away. The closest I had come to a beach was a pond in a park reserved for blacks. My duties at the couples beachfront cottage were to take their two sons swimming. We had changed into our swimsuits and headed into the