Creek Walking: Growing Up in Delaware in the 1950s

by Jacqueline A. Jones

This is both the story of a little girl growing up in Christiania, Delaware, in the 1950s and the history of an American crossroads. Wedged between two dramatically different extended famiiles, she tries to make sense of the social signifiers that crosscut even this tiny village in New Castle County- differences between blacks and whites, men and women, Presbyterians and Methodists, migrants from Appalachia and migrants from New England, and members...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874137543
• ISBN13: 9780874137545
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"