In her memoir, My Life in Song and Praise, Flora Parker details eight and a half decades of her eventful life that encompasses dramatic changes in society, culture, and American history. Mississippi farm life in the 1930s and '40s comes to vivid life in descriptions of her formative years and the influence of her father, a successful farmer and talented music director, and her mother, a gifted cook and gardener. Fate unfolds as Parker sets out...