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

A native of Great Barrington

founded El Toro Training

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

he stumbles into the story of Andrew Scot Foster

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