Preview of The Borning Room Summary:

As she lies dying in 1918, Georgina Caroline Lott tells the story of four generations of Lotts to her portrait painter. The artist has been hired to paint Georgina's death portrait, as was the tradition for her grandparents before her. Georgina narrates how her grandparents' farmhouse with its attached borning room was built when they settled in Ohio in 1820. She describes personal, important events that took place in the borning room—her birth...