Memory of a Large Christmas Hardcover - 1996
by Lillian Smith
As a young child in the early 1900s, writer and civil rights crusader Lillian Smith (1897-1966) lived an idyllic, small-town life. With a lighthearted touch, she recalls her fondest Christmas memories of this time: the rituals, the year-after-year sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the season. "A perfect picture".--Library Journal.
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As a young child in the early 1900s, writer and civil rights crusader Lillian Smith lived an idyllic, small-town life. Of the many customs by which her and her eight brothers' and sisters's days were ordered, none are so fondly remembered by Smith as those of the Christmas season. With a lighthearted touch, she recalls such times as when the family hosted forty-eight chain-gang convicts, along with their guards, to a holiday feast and the time her older brothers almost bought an elegant coffin for their parents's gift. Of far greater meaning to Smith, however, are the remembered rituals, the year-after-year sights, sounds, smells, and tastes: first the hog killings and the shaking of the pecan trees just around the time Big Granny, Little Granny, and a cousin or two began to arrive; then making gifts and hanging stockings; and finally the big day, filled with presents, shooting firecrackers, and too much homemade candy, six-layered coconut cake, and "sweet potato pone, fancied up".
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- Title Memory of a Large Christmas
- Author Lillian Smith
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 88
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA
- Date 1996-11-01
- ISBN 9780820318424 / 0820318426
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.11 x 0.57 in (19.76 x 12.98 x 1.45 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Holiday: Christmas
- Library of Congress subjects Large type books, Authors, American - 20th century - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95026348
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 10/28/1996, Page 0
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