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Gari Carter

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Gari Carter, Author
Gari Carter, Author

Gari Carter (born March 29, 1940) is an American non-fiction writer.

Her first book, Healing Myself [1] [2](Hampton Roads (later bought by Red Wheel Weiser, 1993) told of the recovery from a devastating car crash and ten years of surgically reconstructing her face. Her second book, Troubled State[3][4] (Truman State University Press, 2008) concerns her great-great grandfather’s Civil War Journals focusing on St. Louis.

Gari was born on March 29, 1940 in Baltimore, MD to Tilghman Goldsborough Pitts, Jr.  (August 12, 1913- April 11, 1971)[5][2], an insurance agent, and Mai Garesché Norris Dick (January 29, 1915-August 23, 2010), an artist.[6]

She is descended from families who arrived in the United States in the 1600’s, one of which was Dr. Richard Tilghman, who was issued a patent on January 17, 1659, for “Canterbury Manor”, One Thousand Acres of land on the Tred Avon River, off the Choptank River in Maryland. Dr. Tilghman arrived in 1661 on the ship, “Elizabeth and Mary,” with his wife, Mary, 2 children, and 18 indentured servants. Lord Calvert granted people of British descent landed estates in Maryland if they transported 20 people.[7]

Life and Career

Gari attended girls’ preparatory schools – Bryn Mawr School (1945-1950) and Roland Park Country School (1950-1954) in Baltimore, and Miss Thomas’ School (1954-1956) and Low-Heywood School (1956-1958)(now King Low-Heywood Thomas School) in Connecticut. She studied Latin, English, French and Spanish Literature during those years. She graduated from Low-Heywood School in 1958.

She graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in 1962, with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish Literature, and a minor in Italian literature and Psychology. Gari did graduate work at Middlebury College (1961). She is fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

In Washington, DC, she worked for the Embassy of Bolivia (1962-1963) and the Embassy of France’s French Power Bureau (1963-1965). Gari married and lived in small towns around the state of Virginia with her husband and two children. During those years, she taught French and Spanish in local schools, and opened a successful clothing and gift shop called The Orangerie in Orange, VA, from 1978-1984.[8]

Gari’s life changed dramatically when she was in a severe car crash in February, 1982. Her 11-year-old son saved her life with CPR he had just learned in Cub Scouts.[9][10]She underwent ten years of reconstructive plastic surgeries by Dr. Milton Edgerton [2][11][9][12]at the Maxillofacial Department of The University of Virginia Hospital [8]to rebuild her face and repair her severed leg. During that time, she used the Monroe Institute’s[2][9][12] Hemi-Sync Audio System [8]to control pain, instead of traditional general anesthesia and pain medication.[13] (Healing Myself, 1994)

Gari then moved to Denver, CO[9] and worked for Frontier Airlines until its demise. While unemployed, she took a creative writing class and began her first book, Healing Myself,[9][14][12][13] about the car crash and successive reconstructive surgeries.

She moved to Florida and began ten years of research work on the Civil War Journals of her great-great grandfather. Franklin Dick gave a first-hand account of the first Civil War action from Camp Jackson, Missouri, in which he took part. The only existing version previously was by U. S. Grant[15]. Troubled State was published by Truman State University Press in 2008.[16][17] The book launch was at the St. Louis Civil War Roundtable.

Next, Gari began research on another ancestor who wrote about his experiences in the Civil War, Colonel William James Leonard, from the Eastern Shore of Maryland.[18] He led Purnell’s Legion into Virginia, and was captured in Stuart’s Raid at Catlett Station. Leonard was put into Libby Prison in Richmond. His journal covers the capture, incarceration, and his release. The title, The Bone Ring, comes from a ring carved from his men for his birthday in prison, from the bones of the cattle they were given to eat. This book is in the publication process (The Bone Ring, Donella Press).

Gari is now working on completing a book begun by a cousin in South Africa about Wankie Game Park and Victoria Falls, in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. She has 40 years of letters from the cousins to use for research.

Works

Healing Myself: A Hero’s Primer for Recovery from Tragedy[1], 1993.

Troubled State: Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick[3], 2008.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carter, Gari (1993). Healing Myself: A Hero’s Primer for Recovery from Tragedy. Hampton Roads Publishing Co. ISBN 1878901753. Search this book on
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Paramount Pictures, Sightings program on Gari Carter & Healing Myself, retrieved 2023-01-08
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Carter, Gari (2008). Troubled State: Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick. Truman State University Press. ISBN 9781931112741. Search this book on
  4. ↑ "MBR: Library Bookwatch, June 2008". www.midwestbookreview.com. Retrieved 2023-01-15.
  5. ↑ "FamilySearch.org". ancestors.familysearch.org. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  6. ↑ "Mai West Obituary (2010) - Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Sun". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  7. ↑ Shreve, L. G. (1982). Tench Tilghman, the life and times of Washington's aide-de-camp. Tidewater Publishers. ISBN 0-87033-293-7. OCLC 1325317897. Search this book on
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gari Carter at The Monroe Institute on Hemi-Sync® after a near fatal car crash, retrieved 2023-01-01
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 TV Talk Show Kathy Fountain Show - Gari Carter & Healing Myself, retrieved 2023-01-08
  10. ↑ TV Talk Show Broadcast House Live Gari Carter Interviewed Healing Myself, retrieved 2023-01-08
  11. ↑ TV Talk Show Broadcast House Live Gari Carter Interviewed Healing Myself, retrieved 2023-01-08
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Gari Carter Presentation for the Institute of Noetic Sciences & Healing Myself, retrieved 2023-01-08
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "A RETURN TO BEAUTY". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  14. ↑ TV Talk Show Broadcast House Live Gari Carter Interviewed Healing Myself, retrieved 2023-01-08
  15. ↑ Grant, Ulysses S. (1885). Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. William E. Marshall. New York, United States: Charles L. Webster & Co. Search this book on
  16. ↑ RIFE, SUSAN L. "Author transcribes ancestor's journals". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
  17. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named :7
  18. ↑ "William James Leonard, MSA SC 3520-1564". msa.maryland.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-01.

Press Coverage

  • (1994). "An Inspiration for those who suffer". MSI News – From the Maxillo-Facial Surgery Institute of Florida.
  • Maurer, David A. (April 14, 1994). "A Time To Heal". The Daily Progress.
  • Lloyd, Marilyn Holasek (July 1994). "After the crash: Triumph of spirit". The Free Lance-Star.
  • Castrone, LInda (November 2, 1994). "‘Healing’ author describes tragedy and triumph'". Rocky Mountain News.
  • Malmgren, Jeanne (December 7, 1994). "A Return to Beauty". St Petersburg Times Connections.
  • Redfield, James (December 1994). "Visionaries at Work A Conversation with Gari Carter". The Celestine Journal.
  • (June 1995). "Former Model’s Rebirth from a Disfiguring Accident". Radio-TV Interview Report (Bradley Communications Group).

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