Falling Leaves and Mountain Ashes Brenda George 9781469125114 Books
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Falling Leaves and Mountain Ashes Brenda George 9781469125114 Books
Falling Leaves and Mountain Ashes' takes the reader on an amazing, thought-provoking journey through the lives of individuals and families of the Blue Ridge Mountains of America. The story covers a forty-year time-period ranging from 1899 to 1939. It shares the trials and tribulations, as well as the joys and sorrows, of the mountain people.To me, the story evokes tremendous food for thought as well as emotions, and emphasizes the following:
Love is the strongest force the world possesses... but it is the humblest one could ever imagine.
Like branches on a tree, families grow apart.... but, their roots remain as one.
A family is similar to a circle of strength. Every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger but family feuds, secrets, lies and violent immoral acts weaken the circle, and destroy one's soul, like a theft in the dark.
This story will remain with me for a long, long time. I feel as if I know the characters personally. Beautifully written! Well done to the author.
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Falling Leaves and Mountain Ashes Brenda George 9781469125114 Books Reviews
I loved every single word of the book and thought it was absolutely stunning. My previous all-time favourite book was "Gone With the Wind" but the author has set a new standard in excellence with her brilliant writing. In fact I don't know what I can possibly read after this because the author had set such a high standard. I was so involved with the characters that I could not put the book down and felt really heartsore when I had finished it, because I just wanted it to carry on and on. I found it so moving at times that I was reduced to tears.
NORMA PIQUITO
Moving, thoughtful, and graciously written, Falling Leaves and Mountain Ashes captured my heart and bound me together with Claw Mountain and its people. Of particular note was Mary, who seemed to be the embodiment of the mountain itself, holding fast to her own truth, never wavering despite the trials and tragedies, much as Claw Mountain, buffeted by tempestuous weather, plague and man himself as the enemy. A Beautiful read and not forgotten.
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia - July 1899
Among the wildlife of the unforgiving wilderness barefooted, illiterate Mary Louella Harley's family lived within an equally barefooted, illiterate community of forgotten people in the forgotten, uninhabitable paradise which catered to the toughest of the tough - both human and indigenous creatures alike. It was a frontier settlement of people who lived by their own laws. Wolfe's notes - a government initiative to eradicate wolves, catching snakes and selling moonshine kept the clans alive. Children were taught to drink moonshine since the early age of 6 or even younger to keep diseases at bay.
Mary and her three sisters were each a color-coded pattern on a special piece of cotton. Embroidery needles did for their mother in patterns what reading and writing skills did for educated people on paper. The latter was hard to find in these mountains. Mary's own literacy was kept a secret, only her mom knew, since her dad scoffed at book-learning.
In the wilderness of Claw Mountain lived the fearful patriarch, Obediah Buchanan, and his sons, produced by his late French extracted, cultured wife, Hedina Charlemaine. The good-looking oldest son, Zachary Thomas, "borrowed" a horse, descended from his own territory and traveled many hours to ambush Mary Harley in her father's cow shed at dawn, after seeing her for a brief few minutes in the trading store for the first time a few days prior, and convinced her to elope with him and get married. Which she did.
Obediah himself once knew a life of prosperity and splendor, being a descendant of a wealthy aristocratic family who owned vast tobacco plantations and several distilleries in the Graves Mill area. His refusal to join the Confederate army during the Civil War, and his wild, unsavory lifestyle, had him disowned and banned from his family (who were all killed in the war anyway and their plantations totally destroyed by fires). His deeply-rooted resentment of authority allowed him to ignore the rights and wishes of the wealthy landowner, Devon Ansley, on whose land Obediah defiantly established himself as a squatter. To him, Claw Mountain was his inviolate kingdom and his mode of rule, both in the mountain and off, was fear. He claimed Ansley Devon's property as his own divine right, after Ansley decided for unknown reasons to abandon it.
As a refugee from the Virginian law, as well as a former experienced manager of one of his own father's distilleries, and having a brood of wild sons to raise, Obediah would produce the finest whiskey and apple brandy with his illegal moonshining.
"All in all, Obediah had sired an awesome tribe of twenty sons (three having died in infancy and one in childhood). The Buckos, as they became known, soon became greatly feared. Mean-spirited and wild, and from a very young age, they drank 100-proof whiskey produced from their father's hidden still-site, and roamed the mountains, rocking shacks and cabins and folk with impunity, and using their guns and knives at the least provocation, a fact of which Obediah seemed immensely proud."
With their powerful and predatory skills, they would subject their neighbors, the Ficks and Addis clans, to devilment and tyranny. However, their biggest bitter feud would rage against the equally wild and hostile Galtrey clan of Buck Knob Mountain.
This book was a good experience.
I tried to read this entire book. I actually wanted to like this book. However, the further I got in the book, the more that the book became all about God and relgion. I only made it 66% through before i had to just give up.
Falling Leaves and Mountain Ashes' takes the reader on an amazing, thought-provoking journey through the lives of individuals and families of the Blue Ridge Mountains of America. The story covers a forty-year time-period ranging from 1899 to 1939. It shares the trials and tribulations, as well as the joys and sorrows, of the mountain people.
To me, the story evokes tremendous food for thought as well as emotions, and emphasizes the following
Love is the strongest force the world possesses... but it is the humblest one could ever imagine.
Like branches on a tree, families grow apart.... but, their roots remain as one.
A family is similar to a circle of strength. Every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger but family feuds, secrets, lies and violent immoral acts weaken the circle, and destroy one's soul, like a theft in the dark.
This story will remain with me for a long, long time. I feel as if I know the characters personally. Beautifully written! Well done to the author.
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