An edition of Short call (2014)

Short call

snippets from the smallest places in Texas

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An edition of Short call (2014)

Short call

snippets from the smallest places in Texas

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Joyce Gibson Roach has collected ?snippets? of stories, recipes, and traditions of life in Turtle, Texas, which represents many small towns?and the people who inhabit them. Many of the younger generations leave such towns, finding both place and society crumbling. Those who?ve stayed are finding new and interesting ways to put themselves and their places back together. Both the short and long pieces herein are about the folks who?ve elected to stay generation after generation, knowing that for them wherever they?ve stayed is still the Home Place. The characters? viewpoints are personal, sometimes agreeing with facts found in history books and sometimes not.--Amazon.com.

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University of North Texas Press
Language
English
Pages
154

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Subjects

Small cities, Fiction, Farm life, Women, Social life and customs, Texas, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, westerns, Manners and customs

Places

West Texas
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2014, University of North Texas Press
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2014, University of North Texas Press
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Table of Contents

Short call
The wayward winds
Pickled beets
The tower of Babel
Friday night lights
"A worthy woman is more valuable than rubies"
High-toned women
Consider the lilies (or roses or daisies) of the field
"If there be any virtue, any praise, think on these things"
"Will Jesus find us watching?"
Cleanliness is next to outhouses
It's hip to be square
The games people play
Primer on poke sallet
Recipe for Tex-Mex corn bread
Addie's household helpful hints? ask Watkins
Some cutting remarks about pocket knives
What are friends for?
Before dryers there was something called a clothesline
Effie and Earley in a weather prediction showdown
Hang on to your hat
Feeling blue? try apricot cake
Livestock journal: pig report
"But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee"
Make a joyful noise
Well dressed women always wear aprons
School daze
School ways
Will the circle be unbroken?
Long call
More than cooks in the kitchen
Shopping was an art
Recipe for a birthday cake
Scriptures, philosophy, and common sense make a sage
Mama and the box top Christmas
New year's wish
A psalm for West Texas
Endnotes.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-146) and index.

Published in
Denton, Texas
Series
Texas Folklore Society extra book -- number 24, Texas Folklore Society extra book -- no. 24.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3618.O257 S55 2014, PS3618.O257S55 2014, PS3618 .O257 S55 20

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 154 pages
Number of pages
154

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL31039572M
ISBN 13
9781574415735, 9781574415865
LCCN
2014032917
OCLC/WorldCat
881030098

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL23205246W

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