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Appalachian Elders
A Warm Hearth Sampler
by the Warm Hearth Writers'
Workshop, edited by Nikki Giovanni and Cathee Dennison
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- "You can write what nobody else can ever write," Poet Nikki Giovanni
told her 80+ year old pupils in the Writers Workshop at Warm Hearth, a
retirement community in Blacksburg, Virginia. A reviewer for
/Come-All-Ye/ wrote: "Giovanni suggests, listens, criticizes, and
encourages everyone with their oral histories. This is a collection...a
sampler... sort of a Senior /Foxfire/."
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- Eighteen retirees share some of their life experiences with the reader,
from buying a Mercedes in Germany, to rehabilitating a run-down farm in
Virginia, to teaching a chartreuse parakeet to talk, to surviving the
stock market crash. There's a wonderful tale about not just buying a
sofa but living with it, a "thing of beauty," part of a family's life.
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- ISBN 0-936015-32-2
- xiv + 126 pages, 5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches, paperbound
- $9.50
plus shipping, per copy
- US shipping and handling -
$5.00, add
$.50 for
each additional book
- International shipping and handling -
$15.00
for Priority Mail International
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