The Bonnet Book: Diary of an Orphan Train Hatmaker

Menees Hardesty, Nancy: - Nancy Menees Hardesty was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and spent her childhood in St. Louis, Missouri. She moved to San Francisco, California in 1969 and practiced landscape architecture for twenty-three years. Nancy lives with her husband and remains close with her son and two foster sons. Nancy spent six years researching and writing The Bonnet Book. She had various family journals and artifacts and the extensive help of her mother, Mary Kay Menees, who was the daughter-in-law of Bonnie Spencer. The tiny Bonnet Book of hat sketches and the wooden hat-supply trunk are still in the author's possession.