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My Pee Dee River Hills Down Home Press The year was 1919. Henry Chase, a sharecropper in Union County, North Carolina, had his best year ever growing cotton. He used his profits to pursue a life-long dream. Drawn by glowing advertisements promising the good life and a land of plenty, he bought, sight unseen, a farm near the Pee Dee River in North Carolina’s Sandhills. Reality turned out to be nothing like his dream. The century-old farmhouse into which he moved his wife and five children was not just dilapidated, it also leaked. The scraggly land had been stripped of its timber, was overgrown with briers and brambles and barely productive. But the family settled in to scratch out a new life for themselves. Theirs is a story not only of struggle and perseverance but of love and dedication, hope and joy. At times touching and laugh-aloud funny, it fairly burbles with the irrepressible human spirit. In it, Chris Florance not only relives her youth but also preserves a time and a place as few others have.
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