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1-878086-40-5
$13.95 paperback
5" x 8"
332 pages
Down Home Press
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Entertaining...breezy...spiced
with a sense of humor and youthful spirits. --New York Times
Here is a story
true to life and filled with a brave and blithe spirit....Mrs. Ripley
has captured an authentic bit of the South and perpetuated it. --Saturday
Review of Literature
It was a romantic vision that
brought Katharine Ball Ripley and her dashing, ex-army officer husband,
Clements, to North Carolina's Sandhills in 1921.
I could see a long, low
house with a terrace wall, and a saddle-bred horse, and me standing
there ready to put my foot up in the stirrup. Late summer afternoons,
and Clem and me galloping down a sand road together .... "Work in
the fields together." Roll the phrase around on your tongue.
Doesn't it sound romantic? A pale yellow smock, a big sunhat, and a
basket of red peaches worth--well, maybe not their weight in
gold--swinging on my arm.
It just didn't work out that
way. But this warm and wonderful book, first published to great acclaim
in 1931, did come out of the seven years the Ripleys spent trying to get
rich growing peaches. The first book in Down Home Press' Carolina
Classics™ series, it is a charming and entertaining chronicle of a
memorable segment of Sandhills history.
about the author
After leaving the Sandhills, Katharine and Clements Ripley moved to
Charleston, where her father was editor of the News and Courier.
There she wrote a second non-fiction book, Sand Dollars, as well
as a novel, Crowded House. Clements Ripley became a popular
novelist and Hollywood scriptwriter. Katharine died in 1955, a year
after her husband.
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