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Straw in the Sun

Name: Straw in the Sun
ISBN: 9781610758314

A Memoir

Charlie May Simon,

Aleshia O'Neal,

Aleshia O’Neal,

278 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Straw in the Sun

A Memoir

Charlie May Simon,

Aleshia O'Neal,

Aleshia O’Neal,

About this book

"Last spring I went to Rocky Crossing again. New green grass was sprouting on the high ridge of the road that led there, and now and then there grew a persimmon shoot, or a small hickory, where a nut had fallen and opened deep in the untrampled earth. But the ruts made long ago by passing wagons were still there, guiding the wheels of our car through the dense forest, around the boulders and between the tall trees. I was like a ghost returning to a place once loved."

These opening lines of Charlie May Simon's Straw in the Sun invite readers on a personal journey of remembrance as Simon recounts her homesteading experiment in Depression-era Arkansas. Years before she established herself as a regional author of national renown, she chose a spot near Cove Creek, now part of Ouachita National Forest, to forge a home from rugged land, meeting both a backbreaking series of challenges and a vivid cast of characters in the process.

Nationally popular upon its release in 1945, Simon's lyrical memoir was praised from the outset for its warmth and charm. At once an ethnographic narrative of a hill community and an accessible portrait of Ozarks memories at their most idyllic, Straw in the Sun, offered here with a robust introduction from Simon scholar Aleshia O'Neal, is a classic ready for rediscovery by a new generation of readers.

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