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978-0-9793961-6-8
0-9793961-6-6
$24.95 paperback
6" x 9"
280 pages black-and-white photographs
Reminiscing Books |
My Dear Father and Mother is a compilation of over 250 vintage letters written by family, friends, and business associates of Livingston N. Clinard of Salem, North Carolina. The letters document the personal experiences of a close-knit 19th-century family and contain detailed eyewitness accounts of early business and social activities.
Throughout the letters disease is a major concern. The growth of Hickory is detailed as it was becoming a thriving hub for local and mountain farmers to sell and trade their produce and other goods. Other letters discuss politics of the era, concerts and entertainment, local fairs, balls, temperance meetings, the railroad, tobacco, the marriage of Frank Clinard, and the birth of several of his children. Also the hotel business in Athens, GA, descriptions of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and correspondence about medications from World's Dispensary Medical Association used by Mrs. Livingston Clinard.
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