A Girl of the Blue Ridge
Author | : Payne Erskine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Payne Erskine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Delia Ray |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547533659 |
Eleven-year-old April Sloane has never set foot in a school before, and now that President Hoover and his wife are building a one-room schoolhouse in the hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains where April lives, she is eager to attend it. But these are the Depression years, and Mama, who has been grieving ever since the accidental death of her seven-year-old son, wants April to stay home and do the chores around their dilapidated farm. With her grandmother's intercession, April is grudgingly allowed to go. The kind teacher encourages her apt pupil, who finds a new world opening up to her. But at home, April cannot repair the relationship with her mother, and worse, her mother overhears the dark secret April confesses to her teacher regarding the true cause of her brother's death, for which April feels responsible. The author has used her own experience growing up in a rural area of northern Virginia to create the vivid characters and authentic dialogue and background detail that characterize this finely honed debut novel. She has based the one-room schoolhouse on papers in the Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa, which include letters between the White House and the young teacher who taught at the school.
Author | : Payne Erskine |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2019-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780530559438 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Payne 1854-1924 Erskine |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2016-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781362430230 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Payne Erskine |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2015-12-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781347130179 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Elia Wilkinson Peattie |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465613412 |
The guinea hens wanted everybody to get up. They said so right under the bedroom window; and the turkey gobbler had the same wish and made it known in his most important manner. Hours before, Mr. Rhode Island Red, the rooster, had expressed his opinion on the subject, and from the first pale hint of dawn till the sun swung up in the clear May sky, a great company of tanagers, robins, martins, meadow larks and their friends had suggested, each in his own way, that it was time to be awake. But really, it didn’t need all of this clamor to get the McBirneys out of bed. Since sunup, Thomas McBirney had been planting cotton on the red clay terraces of his mountain farm; and Mary McBirney, his wife, had been busied laying her hearth-fire, getting the breakfast and feeding the crowing, cackling, gobbling creatures in the yard. And three times she had thrust her head in at the door of the lean-to to say that if she were a boy she’d get up and see what a pretty day it was. James Stuart McBirney, otherwise Jim, thought his mother was right about almost everything, but he did differ with her about getting up when a fellow felt like a log and his eyes were as tight as ticks. He had heard her say there was a time for everything, and it seemed to him that the time to sleep was when a fellow was sleepy. Why should sensible people send him to bed when he wasn’t sleepy and make him get up when he was? Besides, something kept nagging away in the back of his mind. It was something that he ought to remember, and couldn’t quite, on account of being so sleepy. Or perhaps he didn’t want to remember it. At any rate, it wouldn’t let him rest in comfort, but pecked away like a woodpecker at a tree. So, in spite of himself, it all came back to him. Ma was out of “fat pine” for kindling, and he must go hunting it.
Author | : Elia Wilkinson Peattie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2017-01-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783944704364 |
Author | : Payne Erskine |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2017-11-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780331879452 |
Excerpt from A Girl of the Blue Ridge This morning her rider was not drunk. He sat his mule easily, with a lithe grace, yielding to each swing of the ani mal with a natural poise that was at the same time erect and nonchalant, as if the world and all that it contained were surmounted by him as certainly as was his mule, or the mountain path, or as Old Abe over-topped the low coun try, which he looked down upon from his cloud-capped eminence. N o sounds were to be heard but those of the wildwood varied, interesting sounds, harmonious and pleasant. High overhead, an eagle swam in air as a fish swims in the deep, circling widely, far, far to the east, then coming back with a swoop, near to the mountain top and close to an overhanging rock that jutted out from the perpendicular face of the precipice and held a gnarled and twisted bundle of branches and sticks in its hollow, open to the sun and wind, yet Sheltered by its own isolation and inaccessibility. That was the eagle's nest, and not far from it, separated from the world also by the barrier of isolation, was the home of the sleek mule's rider. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Elia Wilkinson Peattie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Blue Ridge Mountains |
ISBN | : |
Author | : ELIA W. PEATTIE |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781033764053 |