Category: Memoir Publisher: Publish America
ISBN-10: 1424108640
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 194
Copyright: November 5, 2005
Most everyone has fond memories of growing up. This books offers the reader a glimpse of the richness and abundance of life through the eyes of a Southern gal.
Barbara Deming takes the reader to a time and place in the South when life was simple, to small towns where the only rule of law was that everyone knew what you were doing--just the place for a tomboy who loved to get into mischief as well as climb mulberry trees to write. In "Growing up Barefoot in the South," take a trip back to those "good old days" when love for family, church and country, and a good day's hard work for a good day's pay, were part of the values learned.
Excerpt
From "Bury Only the Dead":
I was a mournful day when Hannah fell ill. There were no doctors in Cane Brake City so the women in town could only apply the potions and elixers and poultices with herbs that they had learned to prepare back in the mountains of Tennessee and Georgia where they had been raised....
Early one morning, Hannah's spirit left her small body....
Hannah Stone lay awkwardly in the coffin. Her lovely white dress was ripped from the neckline to the waist. Her fingernails were torn and bloody, her arms lacerated with scratches. And the calico lining had been shredded from the sides where the girl awaking from the illness that would later be known as encephalitis, or sleeping sickness, had sought a way out.
The true story of Cheryl Pierson Cuccio who made headlines in 1986 and her husband Rob Cuccio. Cheryl was abused sexually and physically and Rob died for 43 minutes on Cheryl's 43rd birthday.
