North Carolina Sketches: Phases of Life Where the Galax Grows

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Title	North Carolina Sketches: Phases of Life Where the Galax Grows (1900)
Identifier	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/morley_margaret/default_morley_margaret.htm
Creator	Mary Nelson Carter
Alt. Creator
Subject Keyword	Margaret Warner Morley ; western North Carolina ; mountains ; nature ; Asheville, NC ;
Subject LCSH	Morley, Margaret Warner 1858-1923
Date	Date original: 1913 ; Date digital: 2007-12-26
Publisher	Publisher Original: Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, (1900) ; Digital Publisher: D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2006
Contributor
Type	Source type: text ;illustrations
Format	image/jpeg/text ;
Source	Special Collections PS3505.A7847 N6 1900 [Library Use Only]
Language	English
Relation
Coverage	1900 ; western North Carolina
Rights	Public Domain
Donor	Special Collections purchase
Description	A quasi-sympathetic account of the life of the Smith family and others in the rural counties of western North Carolina. The author relies heavily on vernacular language and local lore to create a rich pastiche of observations. The rural picture is unusual in the frankness with which the author treats disability, race-relations, and other sensitive family issues. The exchanges of the Smith family are crafted with such clarity of observation, that it is assured that the author based her characters on a family she knew intimately. With the Rev. William Savage (Episcopal), Mary Nelson Carter founded the "Lend-A-Hand-Library at her home on Main Street in Blowing Rock which eventually led to one of the first women's clubs in Blowing Rock that continued the library and social service work of Carter.
Acquisition	unknown
Citation	North Carolina Sketches: Phases of Life Where the Galax Grows (1900), by Mary Nelson Carter, held by the D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Processed by	Special Collections staff, HW - 2007
Last update	2007-12-26
Biography
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.	Mrs. Smith
II.	Stepping Backwards
III.	A Foggy Day
IV.	Mr. Timmins
V.	Playing With Fire
VI.	Neighborly Gossip
VII.	Barter
VIII.	The Course of True Love
IX	Hiding Our
X	In Maria's Garden
XI	The Summer is Ended
XII	The White Day
XIII	Now is the Winter of Our Discontent
XIV	Sally
XV	Old Times
XVI	Getting an Education
XVII	Like Other Children

page 13	Mrs. Smith Mrs Smith, her "old man," and their six grnadchildren lived in a two-roomed cabin on a hillside. There was a good view of the mountains from the hilltop, and when I walked out that way I often stopped in to rest and chat with Mrs. Smith. She and Bijah had just been married when the war [Civil War] broke out, she told me, and she had many entertaining stories to tell of war times....

























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