Memoirs of Grassy Creek: Growing Up in the Mountains on the Virginia-North Carolina Line (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 1)

Memoirs of Grassy Creek: Growing Up in the Mountains on the Virginia-North Carolina Line (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 1) Review

Born on January 5, 1907, Zetta Hamby spent much of her life in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia, and, during a rich, rural life experienced the advent of the telephone, the automobile, electricity, radio, television and the airplane. Families, homes, schooling, amusements, home remedies, 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 chapters are yet another reminder of recent history that is all too quickly being lost.