978-1887905-72-5
1-887905-41-3
$24.95 paperback
211 pages
Parkway Publishers |
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native of the Piedmont area of North Carolina, John Nicholson Idol, a
Confederate Sharpshooter, looking for a way to make a life for himself in
the Reconstruction South, comes to Deep Gap, meets and marries a daughter
of pioneer settler Solomon Greene, and begins to adapt to Blue Ridge ways
of working and living. How he and two generations of his descendents
became absorbed into Blue Ridge culture is the story told in this book. It
is a story drawing on family letters, oral history, and personal
experience.
about the author
John Lane Idol, Jr. is a fourth generation native of the Blue Ridge. He
taught English literature for over thirty years at Clemson University. He
is now settled in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
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