Out Of The Black Patch : The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack PDF
Edited by Carmack Noel Carmack, Davidson Karen Davidson
Part of the Life Writings Frontier Women series
Description
Effie Marquess Carmack (1885-1974) grew up in the tobacco-growing region of southern Kentucky known as the Black Patch. As an adult she moved to Utah, back to Kentucky, to Arizona, and finally to California. Economic necessity primarily motivated Effie and her husband's moves, but her conversion to the Mormon Church in youth also was a factor. Throughout her life, she was committed to preserving the rural, southern folkways she had experienced as a child. She and other members of her family were folk musicians, at times professionally, and she also became a folk poet and artist, teaching herself to paint. In the 1940s she began writing her autobiography and eventually also completed a verse adaptation of it and an unpublished novel about life in the Black Patch.
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- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Utah State University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1999
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- ISBN:9780874213553
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Utah State University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1999
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- ISBN:9780874213553
