An American Harvest:
How One Family Moved From Dirt-Poor Farming To A Better Life In The Early 1900s
The author reflects occasionally on the topics discussed, but she lets the oral history of a remarkable family from rural North Carolina
An American Harvest:
How One Family Moved From Dirt-Poor Farming To A Better Life In The Early 1900s
The author reflects occasionally on the topics discussed, but she lets the oral history of a remarkable family from rural North Carolina do the talking. This account takes the reader to a time of change that could likely happen only in America. Ms. Raper has recorded a wonderfully authentic swatch of Southern Americana, ranging from tobacco raising to hog butchering, old-time revivals to neighborhood corn shucking, and clannish feuds, to helping one’s neighbors in times of need. In her new book An American Harvest: How One Family Moved From Dirt-Poor Farming to a Better Life In