I come from two long lines of strong women. They survived the hard life of settling in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, the pain and loss of childbirth, disease, economic hardship, the Depression, the helplessness of dealing with alcoholism and many other tragedies and difficulties of life. B...
Bestselling author, Lalita Tademy, returns to a familiar subject in her family history and sheds light on a dark incident during the Reconstruction period in the antebellum South. Her latest novel, Red River, focuses on the atrocities that occurred April 13, 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana. Many of tho...
She would remember that moment of calm for the rest of her days, more clearly than hiding in the tall grass, or the men’s voices, or her grandfather’s command—Gramma Amy’s ladle arrested in midair over the stew pot, Ma’am setting wood plates on the long, communal pine table for supper, Granny Sar...