Memoirs of Grassy Creek: Growing up in the Mountains on the Virginia-North Carolina Line
Book: Memoirs of Grassy Creek: Growing up in the Mountains on the Virginia-North Carolina Line , by Zetta Barker Hamby, ISBN10: 0786404167, ISBN13: 9780786404162, McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, December 1997, Paperback
Zetta Barker Hamby was born in the Blue Ridge of Appalachia and, during a rich, rural mountain life, experienced the advent of the telephone, the automobile, electricity, radio, television and the airplane. To set down what life was like in the early days of the century, Hamby - a retired school teacher and principal - culled old records and spoke with everyone she knew who retained memories of the era. She has written about families, weddings and funerals, schooling, amusements, politics, home remedies, world war, and many more topics. Sometimes poignant, often humorous, these memoirs capture an era all too quickly being lost to memory.
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Culling from old records and conversations with everyone she knew who retained memories of the era, Hamby, a retired school teacher and principal, paints a picture of life in rural Appalachia in the early decades of the present century. Families, weddings, funerals, schooling, amusements, politics, home remedies, world war, and the effects of the advent of technology such as the telephone are among the topics in her reminder of a recent history that is all too quickly being lost. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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