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Zetta Barker Hamby - Memoirs of Grassy Creek, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

Memoirs of Grassy Creek

Growing Up in the Mountains on the Virginia-North Carolina Line

Av Zetta Barker Hamby

Del i serien Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies

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Born on January 5, 1907, Zetta Hamby spent much of her life in the northwestern mountains of North Carolina, keenly watching the changes in her community of Grassy Creek and in the world. Families, homes, weddings and funerals, politics, health, world war, race relations, the telephone--those are among the topics touched on in this firsthand look at rural Appalachia in the early decades of the present century. Sometimes poignant, often humorous, and surely authentic, these stories are yet another reminder of recent history that is all too quickly being lost.
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Zetta Barker Hamby, a retired school teacher and principal, lived in the Grassy Creek, North Carolina, area for most of her 90 years, observing modernization with wry wisdom. She died in the summer of 1997.

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“a particularly valuable contribution to the history of Appalachia...deftly describes and includes sketches of a number of ordinary household items that were at one time central to most rural households”—Appalachian Journal; “a must read for anyone interested in mountain history, culture or living. For those seeking a simpler, more natural lifestyle, it could almost serve as a textbook”—Ashe Mountain Times; “editors have preserved the charm of her manuscript and included her pen-and-ink illustrations of farmstead artifacts...good source material for Appalachian cultural history...well-indexed”—North Carolina Libraries.

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