"That Little Girl has a Mind of her Own" is a memoir about the adventures of a spirited young lass, just three generations from the Emerald Isle, growing up in a small village in Upstate New York, in the 1950's. The book is a series of vignettes that share with the reader the trials and tribulations, the heartbreak and disappointments, and the triumphs of a young, precocious child as she confronts life's challenges. The story travels on a timeline beginning in the early 1900's and follows the family from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to the tiny village of Watkins Glen, New York. The story meanders through three generations of culture and customs,food and family and many a bump along the way.