Member Since:
Dec. 07, 2022
KelLee Parr
Biography
KelLee has enjoyed many different careers. He is a former agricultural and literacy missionary in Guatemala, county extension agricultural and 4-H agent, third grade teacher, and adjunct professor. He has worked for publishers of academic materials in mathematics and science in both management and sales. Currently he helps with writing science curriculum for elementary students. KelLee is a graduate of Kansas State University and is an ardent K-State sports fan. From his rural roots, he loves the beauty of the Flint Hills and resides in Manhattan, Kansas. He is co-chair for the Manhattan Walk to End Alzheimer's Disease in honor of his grandmother Emma and father Lee who both passed from this terrible disease.
Series
Books
Mountains of True Peace
by KelLee Parr
Series: A Guatemalan Journey, Book 1.
Price:
$6.99 USD.
Words: 81,550.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: December 4, 2021
by
KelLee Parr.
Categories:
Nonfiction » History » Biography, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir, Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers, Nonfiction » Travel » By region » North America, Nonfiction » History » Latin America / Central America
The True Story of a Young Man's Journey in Guatemala "About twenty miles from the border, we noticed cars being pulled over to the side of the road. There were several armed men in military camouflage clothing out in the road, stopping traffic. We were terrified especially after the accusation and warning at the customs office." KelLee Parr...
More Voices of The Willows and the Adoption Hub of America
by KelLee Parr
Price:
$6.99 USD.
Words: 84,560.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 21, 2020
by
KelLee Parr.
Categories:
Nonfiction » History » Biography, Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Adoption, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir, Nonfiction » History » Social history, Nonfiction » Social Science » Sociology / Marriage & Family
Fascinating look into the early 20th century world of adoption in Kansas City, Missouri. "More Voices of The Willows" is a follow up to "Mansion on a Hill: The Story of The Willows Maternity Sanitarium and the Adoption Hub of America." Adoptees and birth mothers share heartwarming and sometimes heart wrenching reunion stories. Ranging from 1908...
My Little Valentine
by KelLee Parr
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 72,580.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 11, 2016
by
KelLee Parr.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography, Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Adoption, Nonfiction » Biography » Woman biographies, Nonfiction » Biography » Literary biography, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir
This is the true story of lost love between a mother and daughter. In 1925, a rural Kansas teenage girl found herself in the "family way" and unmarried. She was sent to The Willows Maternity Sanitarium, a home for unwed mothers, and gave up her baby to be raised by strangers. She was devastated but had to promise to never look for her baby. Though kept a secret, she never forgot and always...
Mansion on a Hill
by KelLee Parr
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 65,840.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: August 8, 2018
by
KelLee Parr.
Categories:
Nonfiction » History, Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies, Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Adoption, Nonfiction » Biography » Woman biographies, Nonfiction » History » Social history
The Story of the Willows Maternity Sanitarium and the Adoption Hub of America. For the readers of Orphan Train comes the true story of a second wave of humanity that traveled to the Midwest by train. Not well documented in American history, over 100,000 pregnant, unwed young women traveled mostly by train to Kansas City – known as the Adoption Hub of America – in the early- to mid-1900s.They...