Ways of Old: Growing Up in the Needmore/Hightower Community - Bryson City, NC BISAC-TRA006000 ISBN10: 116285216X

ISBN10: 116285216X

struggle to be free

\"Plenitud\"

nor will everything we try in the future be successful

The New Yorker has described Matthews's work as poems that revel in etymology and delight in colloquialism

Ways of Old: Growing Up in the Needmore/Hightower Community - Bryson City, NC BISAC-TRA006000 ISBN10: 116285216XGrowing up in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina in the 50's was quite a challenge at times. Growing enough fod to feed the family and farm animals was hard work, yet rewarding, We not only grew enough food to feed us during the summer, but had to "put up" enough to get us through the long cold winter. We made our own clothes as well as the mops and brooms usd for house cleaning. Public jobs were scarce so other means of making a few dollars ranged