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Short Call : Snippets from the Smallest Places in Texas, 1935-2000 /
""Short Call: Snippets from the Smallest Places in Texas, 1935-2000 ""by Joyce Gibson Roach, is TFS Extra Book #24. Joyce Gibson Roach has collected ""snippets"" of stories, recipes, and traditions of life in Turtle, Texas, which represents many small towns--a...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton, Texas :
University of North Texas Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Short call
- The wayward winds
- Pickled beets
- The tower of Babel
- Friday night lights
- "A worthy woman is more valuable than rubies"
- High-toned women
- Consider the lilies (or roses or daisies) of the field
- "If there be any virtue, any praise, think on these things"
- "Will Jesus find us watching?"
- Cleanliness is next to outhouses
- It's hip to be square
- The games people play
- Primer on poke sallet
- Recipe for Tex-Mex corn bread
- Addie's household helpful hints? ask Watkins
- Some cutting remarks about pocket knives
- What are friends for?
- Before dryers there was something called a clothesline
- Effie and Earley in a weather prediction showdown
- Hang on to your hat
- Feeling blue? try apricot cake
- Livestock journal: pig report
- "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee"
- Make a joyful noise
- Well dressed women always wear aprons
- School daze
- School ways
- Will the circle be unbroken?
- Long call
- More than cooks in the kitchen
- Shopping was an art
- Recipe for a birthday cake
- Scriptures, philosophy, and common sense make a sage
- Mama and the box top Christmas
- New year's wish
- A psalm for West Texas
- Endnotes.