Description
Contents
I. When My Memories Began
II. Growing Up in The Bible Belt
III. School Days in Dixie
IV. Breakfast in the Rural South
V. After-School Snacks
VI. Taking Guns to School
VII. Our Chores: Working the Farm
VIII. Which is Better: Man’s Wealth or God’s Wealth
IX. The War and the Origin of the Bible Belt
X. Our Family Remembered the War
XI. Uncle Frank Smith: Snake Handler and Country Philosopher
XII. Logging with Ox Teams
XIII. Hog-Killing Time: Meat for Supper Raised on the Farm
XIV. Plowing the Red Clay Hills of Mississippi
XV. The Dinner Bell: The Community’s 911 Call
XVI. The Ole Swimming Hole: Days Before Swimming Pools
XVII. Moving a Town on Ox Wagons
XVIII. TV Comes to the Rural South
XIX. Starvation– the Hungry South
XX. Sickness and Disease in the South
XXI. Photos
XXII. Making Do in Hard Times
XXIII. Race Relations in the Rural South
XXIV Howard Divinity: Copiah County’s Black Confederate
XXV. How to Speak Southern: Redneck Words and Phrases
XXVI. Epilogue: Thoughts in the Quiet of Twilight