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Front porch swings and stringing beans : what it means to grow up Southern /
- Title
- Front porch swings and stringing beans : what it means to grow up Southern / by Cecilia Budd Grimes.
- Author
- Grimes, Cecilia Budd.
- Publication
- North Carolina : Abram & van Wyck Publishers, ©2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F215 .G74 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 67 pages : illustrations; 19 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Contents
- "How's your mama?" and other niceties -- "Just a lick and a promise" and other sayings -- "You gotta be raised Southern to be Southern ..." honoraries and such -- "Brook is my first cousin, once removed ..." and other kinfolk identified -- The homeplace and what you'd find at Southern feeds -- Rules we're taught to follow and things don't you dare ... -- "Take me out to the ballgame ..." on a summer evening -- Roast n'ears and other fine foods -- Kerosene ankle rags and other such remedies -- "See Rock City" called the eighth wonder of the world.
- ISBN
- 0970839642
- 9780970839640
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library