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1-878086-08-1
$16.95 hardcover
5 1/2 x 8
178 pages black-and-white photographs
Down Home Press
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It was never a term of
endearment --linthead-- but some people whose lives were formed in the
cotton mill villages of the South wore it as a badge of honor. One is
Wilt Browning, part of the last generation to be born and raised on the
mill hill. This book is a look at mill hill life from the 1940s through
the early 50s, when the mills began selling off company houses and life
on the mill hills began changing rapidly. Linthead is a
revisiting of the life that thousands of Carolinians and other
Southerners once lived, a life that exists now only in memories.
Browning brings those memories to life.
about the author
Wilt Browning left the mill hill to become a sports writer. He has
worked for the Greenville, South Carolina, News, the Atlanta
Journal Constitution, the Charlotte Observer, and the
Greensboro, North Carolina, News & Record, where he is now a
sports columnist. His work has won numerous awards, and he has been
named North Carolina Sports Writer of the Year. He also has been public
relations director for the Atlanta Falcons and the Baltimore Colts. He
and his wife, Joyce, have five children and five grandchildren.
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