Alice Tipton LaFleur, who retired after working in UGA’s Office of Institutional Research and the Physical Plant, has recently published her second book, “Always Alice After All,” a personal memoir and sequel to her earlier nonfiction work “Sir and Miss Annie.”
Both works are available here.
The new memoir recounts drama — and trauma — alongside tender moments, joy and excitement, with laughs and giggles, too. Moving back and forth episodically through singular events of her childhood and adult life, the author presents a lively and revealing account of her years spent as a youngster with her mom and dad in Japan, Korea and Fort Lee, Virginia, and later, as a slightly wild teen, in Turkey and, as she calls it, “Ala-damn-bama.”
Her college years in Knoxville and Fort Collins, and her move to the University of Georgia for graduate study, brought more escapades and two degrees, but also challenges and even tragedy. The memoir’s later chapters recount her move from Athens to Mississippi with her husband-to-be, and then their years together back in Georgia, raising children, building a home and suffering the chaos and sadness of a breakup.
The book concludes with her meeting, dating, marrying and settling into retirement with her second husband, a professor in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ classics department, and their ongoing adventures and peregrinations between their Lake Oglethorpe home in Arnoldsville and their vacation getaways in Little Switzerland, North Carolina, and on the Florida Panhandle.