My Mountain Granny

The Story of Evelyn Howell Beck in the Mountain Town of Whittier, NC

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book My Mountain Granny by Matthew Link Baker, Catch the Spirit of Appalachia, Inc.
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Author: Matthew Link Baker ISBN: 9780989216920
Publisher: Catch the Spirit of Appalachia, Inc. Publication: July 17, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Matthew Link Baker
ISBN: 9780989216920
Publisher: Catch the Spirit of Appalachia, Inc.
Publication: July 17, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

     Shortly after moving to western North Carolina, Matthew Baker met Evelyn Howell Beck of Whittier, North Carolina. This meeting was the consequence of Baker’s lifelong desire to discover the “real Appalachia” and the character of the people who lived there. Over the course of four-year period starting in 1998, Baker would visit Evelyn nearly twenty times. Their recorded conversations comprise the foundation of the book.

     Baker’s touching documentation of Beck’s life and the history of Whittier pays tribute to a once-booming mountain town and the resilience of its people.

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     Shortly after moving to western North Carolina, Matthew Baker met Evelyn Howell Beck of Whittier, North Carolina. This meeting was the consequence of Baker’s lifelong desire to discover the “real Appalachia” and the character of the people who lived there. Over the course of four-year period starting in 1998, Baker would visit Evelyn nearly twenty times. Their recorded conversations comprise the foundation of the book.

     Baker’s touching documentation of Beck’s life and the history of Whittier pays tribute to a once-booming mountain town and the resilience of its people.

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