M. R., a native of the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, shares her childhood experiences with a wonderful sense of humor and a refreshing down-home honesty that will make the reader laugh and cry at the same time.Her stories preserve for us the way of life of the mountain people of the Shenandoah Valley, almost forgotten in our modern age. With astounding simplicity and yet profound insight, Millie the Hillbilly, as her friends know her, gives us a glimpse into the abject poverty and hardship of the day, while at the same time, show how faith, hope and joy made it possible not only to endure life, but find happiness and a better future.
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