Kittie Church knew she wanted to be a doctor from the age of ten, when she delivered a neighbor's baby in an emergency. In the 1800's women were not welcome in medical colleges, so the only way she could become a doctor was to marry one. She and her high school teacher, Byron Snyder, had fallen in love. After she graduated, he proposed marriage, and she proposed that he go to medical college. During her career she delivered hundreds of babies, never losing a mother. When the flu epidemic raged in 1918, she lost only two patients while other doctors lost many. In addition to her medical practice, she bore and raised to adulthood ten children. She and Byron practiced mostly in Pittsburg, Kansas and the surrounding area. Until shortly before her death in 1931, she continued to make house calls in her horse drawn buggy.

Dr. Snyder is Judith's great grandmother. Although Judith never met her, she heard many family stories about this strong, independent, and generous woman. Judith tells Kathleen's story in first person, dressed in costume to suggest a semblance of her great grandmother. It is a story filled with humor and warmth, of interest to adult audiences..