Good Deeds

Barnett Bestselling Authors Jane Congdon & Joseph Barnett stops by Good Deeds w/ Dr Sunday. Siblings Jane Congdon and Joseph Barnett grew up in Glen Ferris, a small town in the mountains of West Virginia. Both left their hometown in 1966 and rarely saw one another for the next 40 years until a brain tumor brought them back together. Jane graduated from Concord College (now Concord University) in Athens, West Virginia, and made a career of words. She became an English teacher and a newspaper reporter before settling into her longest career: 30 years as a textbook editor in Cincinnati, Ohio. She retired in 2009 and completed her memoir It Started with Dracula: The Count, My Mother, and Me (2011, Bettie Youngs Books). Joseph attended West Virginia University and in 1970 settled in Cincinnati. After working 27 years in a food plant, he became a school custodian. Joseph retired in 2010. With his sister as co-author, he published the memoir Mr. Joe: Tales from a Haunted Life (2013, Bettie Youngs Books). Jan