Lessons My Maw Taught Me
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Voted number 6 out of 18 Best Short Memoir Books by BookAuthority.org. Deborah Gray writes about growing up at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Southeastern Kentucky in the early sixties under the living guidance of her maternal grandmother. This memoir is a love story dedicated to the memories of a six-year-old child and the years that follow. There is laughter, joy, sadness, and sometimes inner contemplation, but never a dull moment. Deborah's Maw, Rose Wilson, will give you a vision into wisdom that we all seek, love and all crave. It is a book you won't be able to put down.
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Contents
One -Rose Wilson • 7
Two - Decoration Day • 10
Three - The Pink Commode • 13
Four - School • 15
Five - The Perm • 21
Six - Church • 23
Seven - The Washing Machine • 28
Eight - The Hiding • 30
Nine - Bible Camp • 33
Ten - The Princess Dress • 37
Eleven - Tobacco • 40
Twelve - Turtle Soup • 45
Thirteen - Golden's Creek • 49
Fourteen - Cinnamon Rolls • 53
Fifteen - Labor Day • 55
Sixteen - The Lady Schick • 58
Seventeen - The Wake • 61
Eighteen - Hugh Charles • 64
Nineteen - Breakfast • 69
Twenty - Voting Day • 75
Twenty-One - The Sweepstakes • 78
Twenty-Two - Military Funeral • 81
Twenty-Three - Aunt Vina • 84
Twenty-Four - The Swimming Pool • 87
Twenty-Five - The Car Wreck • 90
Twenty-Six - Tom T. Hall • 93
Twenty-Seven - Learning To Crochet • 96
Twenty-Eight - The Uniform • 99
Twenty-Nine - Traveler's Inn • 102
Thirty - Laughter • 105
Thirty-One - My Babies • 111
Thirty-Two - Girlfriends • 116
Thirty-Three - Scotch • 120
Thirty-Four - Bus Monitor • 123
Thirty-Five - The Day My World Stopped • 129
