Rich in American history, THE LAUGHING AND THE WEEPING is the first-person account of 93-year-old Bettie B. Dossett. Growing up on two farms in rural Vigo County, Indiana, in the 1930s, Mrs. Dossett shares her very personal, often painful, sometimes humorous, account of childhood, family, and friends, as she faced the challenges of love, life, death, and all the complicated moments in between. This is Mrs. Dossett's first book.