In this poignant and introspective dual memoir, Marion Garrard Barnwell embarks on a deeply personal journey. Inspired by the memoir of her maternal grandmother, the narratives, though separated by decades, are brought together to offer readers a unique and moving exploration of growing up in Mississippi.
In this poignant and introspective dual memoir, Marion Garrard Barnwell embarks on a deeply personal journey. Inspired by the memoir of her maternal grandmother, the narratives, though separated by decades, are brought together to offer readers a unique and moving exploration of growing up in Mississippi.
Marion Garrard Barnwell is professor emerita of English at Delta State University. She is editor of A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives; coauthor of Touring Literary Mississippi; and coeditor of Fannye Cook: Mississippi’s Pioneering Conservationist, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Her fiction has been published in the edited collections Mad Dogs and Moonshine, Christmas Stories from Mississippi, and On the Way Home; and her essays have appeared in magazines such as Delta Magazine and Portico. She is a board member and past president of Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Jackson Friends of the Library. Mary DuBose Trice Clark (1879–1967) was born on Christmas day in Okalona, Mississippi. Her father was a bookkeeper and owned a mercantile business. Her mother was a teacher and later a principal when the family moved to Tupelo. After high school, she attended Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated in 1897 with a degree in music. In 1900, she married Robert Baker Clark, a banker who would become president of the Federal Landbank of Tupelo and later president of the Federal Landbank in New Orleans. Over her long life, Clark taught music, worked as a switchboard operator for the first telephone company in Tupelo, ran a dress shop, and raised five children.
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Acknowledgments Preface Prologue Part I. Ganny’s Memoir Preface Chapter 1. Ganny’s Memoir Chapter 2. Signs and Silences Chapter 3. Her Legacy Chapter 4. She Blooms Chapter 5. Her Marriage and Beyond Chapter 6. Gandaddy Clark Chapter 7. Angel in the House Part II. My Memoir Chapter 8. An Idyllic Childhood Chapter 9. Garrard Forebears Chapter 10. Rosemary 000 Chapter 11. Those absent Chapter 12. "Politest Boy in School" Chapter 13. "Flapper, Yes, She’s One of Those" Chapter 14. Love Letters Chapter 15. The Delta, Part One Chapter 16. The Delta, Part Two Chapter 17. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" Chapter 18. On Barberry Lane Chapter 19. How Did She Do It? Chapter 20. Reprieve Chapter 21. Scribbles on Scraps Chapter 22. Accident? Chapter 23. Cathedral Days Chapter 24. New Orleans (by way of Columbia, Missouri) Chapter 25. Why Did She Stay? Chapter 26. Marriage Chapter 27. Late for Supper Chapter 28. Motherhood Chapter 29. Endings, Beginnings Chapter 30. Love, Work, and Friends Chapter 31. 1981 Chapter 32. End of an Era Chapter 33. The Delta, Part Three Chapter 34. Dorothy Chapter 35. Annie’s Time Chapter 36. The Unveiling Epilogue Addendum Notes Bibliography
Acknowledgments Preface Prologue Part I. Ganny’s Memoir Preface Chapter 1. Ganny’s Memoir Chapter 2. Signs and Silences Chapter 3. Her Legacy Chapter 4. She Blooms Chapter 5. Her Marriage and Beyond Chapter 6. Gandaddy Clark Chapter 7. Angel in the House Part II. My Memoir Chapter 8. An Idyllic Childhood Chapter 9. Garrard Forebears Chapter 10. Rosemary 000 Chapter 11. Those absent Chapter 12. "Politest Boy in School" Chapter 13. "Flapper, Yes, She’s One of Those" Chapter 14. Love Letters Chapter 15. The Delta, Part One Chapter 16. The Delta, Part Two Chapter 17. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" Chapter 18. On Barberry Lane Chapter 19. How Did She Do It? Chapter 20. Reprieve Chapter 21. Scribbles on Scraps Chapter 22. Accident? Chapter 23. Cathedral Days Chapter 24. New Orleans (by way of Columbia, Missouri) Chapter 25. Why Did She Stay? Chapter 26. Marriage Chapter 27. Late for Supper Chapter 28. Motherhood Chapter 29. Endings, Beginnings Chapter 30. Love, Work, and Friends Chapter 31. 1981 Chapter 32. End of an Era Chapter 33. The Delta, Part Three Chapter 34. Dorothy Chapter 35. Annie’s Time Chapter 36. The Unveiling Epilogue Addendum Notes Bibliography
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