Our fathers' fields : a southern story / James Everett Kibler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kibler, James E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hardy family.

Newberry County (S.C.)--Biography.

Newberry County (S.C.).

Newberry County (S.C.)--Social life and customs.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 444 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1998.

Summary:

When James Everett Kibler purchased a dilapidated South Carolina plantation in 1989, he had no idea that his rehabilitation of the distinguished but deteriorated property would include the unearthing of a remarkable saga about the land and the people who had lived on it. But as he refurbished the Great House and restored its nineteenth-century garden, he felt the pull of the place to uncover and record its past. Kibler faithfully took part in an act of cultural reclamation, piecing together the story of the Hardy family, who purchased the tract along the Tyger River in 1786 and farmed it for two centuries.

Contents:

A Land Called Amoy-es-chek

The Sweet Fields of Eden

A Brave New Century

More Gold Than Grace

Paterfamilias

In Tune with the Music of the Universe: A Southern Countryman's Villa Garden

The Forest

Their Fathers' Fields: The Working Plantation in 1850

Works and Days in the Quarters

In the Way o' Finery and Style: The Decade before the War

The Plantation Neighborhood

A World Kicked to Pieces

New Giants in the Land: The Last Young Master

Captain Dick

Holding on in a World We Did Not Make: After the Boll Weevil and the Great Depression

High Times with the High Sheriff

The Ruined Land

Interlude: Ghosts (January 1990)

Choices: A Rare and Bearing Vine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-438) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1570032149

OCLC:

38147817