Geraldine G Girard

Cousins

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a story set in the North Carolina Mountains. It is about two families of Scotch-Irish and also French decent. It centers on one 11 year old girl and her 6 year old sister and two boy cousins, one 13 years old and the other is 8 years old. The story begins in the year 1914. The author got many ideas for this book from an elderly lady (in her 90s) who was asked to take part in an oral history for her community by the Director of the Rural Life Museum which was part of the University Library. At that time the author of this book was a student at the University and she was studying to be a teacher as well as an art student. The sweet elderly lady decided she wanted to write this story down into a book and she wanted to add illustrations, at least ten of them. (We ended up with 40 illustrations) This is what brought these two together. While the lady was writing her book of community history, the University decided to ask the lady and the student (author) to do an Elderhostal Class for the University. The lady told the author (artist) many stories she did not put in her book, one of these stories became the "Fire" and another the "Grandfather". There really was a Frenchman who came to this community with his trained monkey that danced beside the organ grinder. And that little monkey is really buried in the family cemetery. The author also included stories that her father told her such as the "Ghost". This story was of a haunting young women who killed her husband in the early 1800s. She was hung for it in 1838 and this too is a true story from these mountains.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gera Girard Books
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9781956742251
• ISBN-10: 1956742255
• Artikelnr.: 63088964

Autorenporträt

Geraldine Gardner was born in theappalachian Mountains and it was herfather who gave her the love of thesemountains. although she did not grow upin the mountains her parents moved northafter her father came home from fightingin World War ii. He liked working oncars and they moved to detroit, Michiganand he worked for General Motors.While in college she was studyingdrafting & design she became interestedin Journalism. She took several coursesand worked on the college newspaper.after moving back to the mountains, she attended Mars Hill Universityto study teaching specializing in elementary education & Middle Gradeeducation as well as Visual art, she taught Visual art in the MadisonCounty Schools for 13 years.She was active in many writing workshops and joined the Writer'sWorkshop in asheville, nC. She worked on weekends as a docent for theThomas Wolfe House. and also acted in their living History that wasperformed in the 80s. She was published in the asheville Citizen-Timesand in many local newspapers and in the Thomas Wolfe review.