โ Scribed by Ellen F. Crain
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Here, set in the primeval beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains, is a memorable novel about a very old woman who could accept pain and hardship, but not defeat. At ninety, Grandma Weller was still a midwife and herb healer to the mountain people. Her words had been law until that year in the early thirties when the Government men came to buy all of the land for a new national park. After that, no one would listen to her. The lure of money, of an easy existance in the valley, outweighed the harsh freedom of the wilderness. Only Grandma and young Homer Simmons tried to save their way of life. When winter came, they were alone in a desperate struggle for survival.
Woven into the novel are folk tales of the mountain people, some of them sad and cruel, some filled with gusty humor. Then there is the realistic drama of childbirth and of death; the romance of Home and high spirited Jurie Biggers; the clash between the old and the new. But it's Grandma, earth-worn and sky-weathered, with he guile and salty wit, her wisdom and compassion and love, who dominates the story.
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