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CreekerLinda Scott DeRosier

Creeker

1999228 pages
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"Linda Sue Preston was born on a feather bed in the upper room of her Grandma Emmy's log house in the hills of eastern Kentucky. More than fifty years later, Linda Scott DeRosier has come to believe that you can take a woman out of Appalachia but you can't take Appalachia out of the woman."--BOOK JACKET. "DeRosier's humorous and poignant memoir is the story of an educated and cultured woman who came of age in Appalachia. Now a college professor, decades and notions removed from the creeks and hollows, DeRosier knows that her roots run deep in her memory and language and in her approach to the…

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  • Other · English · 1999
    University Press of Kentucky · 228 pages · 9780813121239
Social life and customsBiographyAppalachians (People)BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHYHistoricalHISTORYState & LocalGeneral