Author: Irma MeyrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Hillman's of Greene County, Mississippi
Author: Irma MeyrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs
Author: Jimmye HillmanPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816529914
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"It's in the nature of things that whole worlds disappear," writes the poet Robert Hass in the foreword to Jimmye Hillman's insightful memoir. "Their vanishings, more often than not, go unrecorded or pass into myth, just as they slip from the memory of the living." To ensure that the world of Jimmye Hillman's childhood in Greene County, Mississippi during the Great Depression doesn't slip away, he has gathered together accounts of his family and the other people of Old Washington village. There are humorous stories of hog hunting and heart-wrenching tales of poverty set against a rural backdrop shaded by the local social, religious, and political climate of the time. Jimmye and his family were subsistence farmers out of bare-bones necessity, decades before discussions about sustainability made such practices laudable. More than just childhood memories and a family saga, though, this book serves as a snapshot of the natural, historical, and linguistic details of the time and place. It is a remarkable record of Southern life. Observations loaded with detail uncover broader themes of work, family loyalty, and the politics of changing times.Ê Hillman, now eighty-eight, went on to a distinguished career as an economist specializing in agriculture. He realizes the importance of his story as an example of the cultural history of the Deep South but allows readers to discover the significance on their own by witnessing the lives of a colorful cast of characters. Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs is unique, a blend of humor and reflection, wisdom and sympathy--but it's also a hard-nosed look at the realities of living on a dirt farm in a vanished world. Ê
Report
Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2082
Book Description
Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs
Author: Jimmye HillmanPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 081659970X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"It's in the nature of things that whole worlds disappear," writes the poet Robert Hass in the foreword to Jimmye Hillman's insightful memoir. "Their vanishings, more often than not, go unrecorded or pass into myth, just as they slip from the memory of the living." To ensure that the world of Jimmye Hillman's childhood in Greene County, Mississippi during the Great Depression doesn't slip away, he has gathered together accounts of his family and the other people of Old Washington village. There are humorous stories of hog hunting and heart-wrenching tales of poverty set against a rural backdrop shaded by the local social, religious, and political climate of the time. Jimmye and his family were subsistence farmers out of bare-bones necessity, decades before discussions about sustainability made such practices laudable. More than just childhood memories and a family saga, though, this book serves as a snapshot of the natural, historical, and linguistic details of the time and place. It is a remarkable record of Southern life. Observations loaded with detail uncover broader themes of work, family loyalty, and the politics of changing times. Hillman, now eighty-eight, went on to a distinguished career as an economist specializing in agriculture. He realizes the importance of his story as an example of the cultural history of the Deep South but allows readers to discover the significance on their own by witnessing the lives of a colorful cast of characters. Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs is unique, a blend of humor and reflection, wisdom and sympathy—but it's also a hard-nosed look at the realities of living on a dirt farm in a vanished world.
Ancestors and Descendants of the Dearman-Deerman and Related Families
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A genealogy of the Dearman/Deerman families in Alabama who are descendants of Richard Dearman born about 1710-1715 in North Carolina and died before 1780 in North Carolina.
Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi
Author: Mississippi. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
Water-resources Investigations Report
Author: Water Resources Data
Author: Mississippi Reports ... Being Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi
Author: Mississippi. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Area Trends in Employment and Unemployment
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description