Believe by Karen Biery
A local fictional history mystery!
Karen Biery is an artist and writer who has spent the majority of her life in the creative realm. She began her career in retail management with small entrepreneurs, grew through one of America's leading corporations, and ultimately created her own retail environment Olde English Garden Company in Salem, Ohio. She attended Kent State University for creative writing and studied watercolors under the instruction of Tom McNickle. She has made believe her first collaborative effort by blending multiple facets for the cover and interior. Karen lives in North East Ohio with her husband Jeff, when they are not at their home on Marco Island.
About the book, Believe
In the heart of historic Hope Cemetery in Salem, Ohio stands a memorial for Goldie Bell Taylor. The tragedy of a small life stolen at only two years of age is magnified in her carved marble eyes. They echo the feeling of a desperate longing. Her hands are carved to nearly touching leaving a void that is filled only by a gathering of fresh flowers. All seems normal , yet Goldie's suitors are never seen; only their bouquets remain as evidence of their visit.
Patricia (Suzie) DuVeau is drawn to this 1886 statue as she searches for the resting place of her birth mother. She is pulled into a place where past and present are blended as one vision – a view into a world where its movement is guided by desperate desires to complete their purpose. As Suzie is drawn from the mayhem, she finds solace with a family she never knew existed. Her aunt, Madeline, and companion, Patrick fills Suzie's need for answers while she explores the convoluted life of her mother.
What she finds is not what she desires or expects.
This book is available in the museum gift shop and at other retailers.
This ook would make a perfect present
for those who enjoy mystery interwoven with local history and fact blended with fiction.
For more information about the book or Karen Biery go to www.karenbiery.com


The museum gift shop also has the recently published 222-page book THE ROMANIANS OF SALEM, OHIO 1900-2000 which features the contributions of many of these families. An important addition to this book, not previously available, is a ten page index.
---------Chenoweth’s research to discover the story behind a Quaker signature quilt made in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1853 revealed not only the identity of the quilt recipient and details of her life and community, but also a striking feature of the quilt itself—a “hidden” design element created by the deliberate placement of names on the quilt’s surface. In Philena’s Friendship Quilt, Lynda Salter Chenoweth reveals the value of signature quilts as historic and social documents waiting to be read.
This book is now available through The Salem Historical Society Gift Shop,
