When does a person's story begin? How is it shaped by the long forgotten past? One individual's story, traced back a dozen generations, might encompass 10,000 other stories, layered and interwoven, that began centuries before one's own birth. Jessie's Legacy explores almost five hundred years of the family history of one unremarkable man, Jessie Alexander McCall. The stories take the reader from the Tower of London during the reign of King Henry VIII to colonial America to the colorful young state of Louisiana. Jessie's Legacy reminds us all that our lives are uniquely influenced by the contributions of those who have gone before us.
