F161.
"The Lost Coin" and Other Stories About the Fate of Children Adopted at Birth
Friday, February 9, 2024
10:35 am to 11:50 am
Stephen Rowley will read from The Lost Coin: A Memoir of Adoption and Destiny and discuss his lifelong search for identity. KelLee Parr will read from Mansion on a Hill: The Story of the Willows Maternity Sanitarium and the Adoption Hub of America—founded in Kansas City in 1905. The authors will discuss the differences between the diverse destinies of adoptees and the common, primal wound that adoptees carry invisibly within. We hope to uncover new stories of adoption from the audience.
Participants
Stephen Rowley is a psychotherapist practicing on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He has been a teacher, administrator, and college professor. He holds a PhD from Stanford University and an MA in counseling from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Born at the Willows Maternity Sanitarium in Kansas City in 1949.
KelLee Parr is vice president of a publishing company and writes science curricula for elementary schools. He has been an AG missionary, teacher, and adjunct professor. He has an MS in education from Kansas State University. He has written four books. His mother was born at the Willows in Kansas City in 1925.
