Sarah's girls : a chronicle of Big Ugly Creek / Lenore McComas Coberly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coberly, Lenore M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic fiction.

West Virginia--Fiction.

West Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Situated in a remote outpost in West Virginia at the turn of the last century, the story that Lenore McComas Coberly tells in Sarah's Girls is one of place, people, and unquenchable spirit. In this fictionalized account of her recent ancestors, Coberly masterfully traces the journeys of their lives, their dreams, and their hardships over the course of the twentieth century. At its center is the story of Lena, who returns to care for her dead sister's daughters, giving up the promise of a life that can spare her the adversity rural living guarantees. The author goes back to Big Ugly Creek, the place where her grandparents met--and the place whose memory she cannot leave. Using the stories she was told in her childhood as a bridge to the past, Coberly uncovers facts about her family history from documents that have made their way from one generation to another and the truth from the inherent understanding she has of these people who are so close to her. But Sarah's Girls is not about the author; it is about the people and a place she loves. It is fiction written to tell the deeper truth about the hold West Virginia--its mountains and its valleys--has on its people.

Contents:

Intro

People in This Story

Prologue

1 / Philip Crosses Green Shoal

2 / Timbering

3 / Change Comes to Ugly

4 / Lena Alone

5 / Mountain Miracles

Clint's Song

6 / Lena's Adventure

7 / Lena and Dollie

8 / Growing Up

9 / Remembering Sarah

10 / Dollie Comes Over Green Shoal

11 / Christmas on Ugly

12 / Decoration Day

13 / Time to Go

14 / The Hamlin House

Pearl's Journal: Christmas 1912

15 \ The Fever

16 \ Grandma Hager

Pearl's Journal

17 \To Write a Story

Pearl's Journal-Spring

18 \ The Family across the Road

19 \ The Hard Year

20 \ Brook's Story

21 / Edna Goes to High School

22 / Drilling for a Better Life

Pearl's Journal Logan, April 1929

23 / The House at The Sulphur

24 / Bob Stays in Hamlin

25 / Madge's House

Epilogue.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8040-4026-5

OCLC:

475105784