Love, Hickory: A Southern Lady Prevails at 99 - Part One: The First Fifty Years

By Thomas Joseph Perez

Book Overview

Together with her husband of 64 years, Alyce Hicks prevailed over a lifetime of obstacles in raising 11 children and managed to have fun doing it. In 1929 Alyce was a fun-loving high school senior about to turn seventeen when the stock market crashed and life in sleepy Mobile, Alabama changed forever for her . . . and for everybody in America. The following summer she fell in love with Rappy Perez and together in the depths of the Great Depression they started saving money to get married. But in 1933 President Roosevelt's "bank holiday" pulled the rug from under Alyce's bank-clerk fianc .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432771612
• ISBN13: 9781432771614
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"