The Blessed Town: Oxford, Georgia, at the Turn of the Century-Polly Stone Buck

Description: Awesome book dealing with small town America in The Blessed Town: Oxford, Georgia, at the Turn of the Century. This 156 page hardback by Polly Stone Buck was published in 1986. From the DJ we read, "The old Griffin place that six-year-old Florrie Stone moved into with her widowed mother and brothers in the college town of Oxford, Georgia, in 1907 was a rundown clapboard dwelling much in need of paint-a far cry from the historic Thomas-Stone hose in which the Stones had always resided, and which had been there ever since Emory College and the town of Oxford had been founded two decades before the Civil War. Yet life in the old house, where her impoverished mother took in student boarders to help meet expenses, and in the little town with its familiar cast of characters, was a matter of endless delight for a little girl. Now, long years afterward, Polly Stone Buck has recreated the life and ways of this tranquil village, telling how she and her fellow Oxonians young and old lived back when nobody in town yet owned one of the new-fangled automobiles and the link to the outside world was a canary-yellow mule-powered streetcar that four times each day made the mile-and-a-half journey to and from the mainline of the railroad between Atlanta and Augusta. There were no supermarkets, no convenience stores, everything was done at home, by hand. An immense wood-burning iron stove dominated the kitchen. Sirloin steak sold for 25 to 30 cents a pound. Chickens were snatched up from the backyard, dispatched, plunged into a pot of hot water, then cleaned and plucked. Vegetables and fruit were whatever was in season or else had been 'put up' in mason jars the previous year. Store-bought bread was unheard of. No alcoholic beverages dared cross the county line. Life revolved around church and school-Emory was then a small Methodist college, and its move to Atlanta and development to university status with the aid of Coco-Cola money lay in the future. There are lectures, games, revivals, picnics, daylong hikes to waterfalls and camping grounds. The ladies in town convene regularly to talk and sew.There is a haunted house down the street. Memories of the coming of Sherman's army are still vivid in the minds of adults and rampant in the active imagination of the young. A stroll downtown past the little cluster of buildings and stores is an exciting adventure. Polly Stone Buck's beautifully written recollection of an earlier time and place, the second volume in the American Places of the Heart series, will charm and delight readers everywhere. For those whose memories of small town America go even as far back as before the second World War, the pages of this book will glow with the pleasure pf rediscovered familiarity." Great, great tribute to a different time of life in this book in like new condition. Shipping and handling 4.60 Media Mail to US destinations. Canadian residents 23.40 First Class mail. All others welcome but extra postage required and shipped entirely at your risk.

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