Foothold on a Hillside: Memories of a Southern Illinoisan
In a style reminiscent of the master storytellers of yore, Charless Caraway recounts the story of his life, as a man and a boy, on small farms in Saline and Jackson counties, particularly around Eldorado, Makanda, and Etherton Switch. He makes no bones about the hardships of those old days, first helping his father eke out a living from the land, then scrambling for a living as a sharecropper and fruit picker, as he scrimped and saved for the day when he and his young wife, Bessie Mae Rowan Caraway, could buy a piece of land of their own.The one-room school, the general store, the trips by wagon over roads that choked you in summer and swallo…
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Weitere Autoren: Simon, Paul (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8093-1298-6
- EAN: 9780809312986
- Produktnummer: 9186521
- Verlag: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B21.2 cm x D0.8 cm 286 g
- Gewicht: 286
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