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In the late 1940s, Janice Holt Giles and her husband Henry returned from Louisville, Kentucky, to the Appalachian hill country where Henry grew up. They purchased a ramshackle house and forty acres of land atop a ridge and endeavored to live as farmers like Henry’s forebears. The book records the challenges and rewards of a city woman learning rural life, documenting the twins of hardship and joy over a year of backaches, fun, low ebbs, and high tides—an intimate and evocative account of rural living, domestic adjustment, and the enduring appeal of American farm life.
First publish date: 1952
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Janice Holt Giles
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