Oracle of the Ages: Reflections on the Curious Life of Fortune Teller Mayhayley Lancaster

By Dot Moore

Book Overview

Winner of the Lilla M. Hawes Award for Best Local Georgia History

Mayhayley Lancaster was many things through her interesting life: lawyer, schoolteacher, political activist, fortune teller, numbers runner, and self-proclaimed "oracle of the ages." In this new volume of creative nonfiction, the people who knew her reflect on her personality, her politics, and her passions, offering the reader a chance to delve fully into Mayhayley lore and legend. Oracle offers strange and often hilarious stories of the poor Georgia South in the post-Depression era, and how the eccentric Mayhayley's charisma and mysterious powers cast a spell on all the people who knew--and inevitably misunderstood--her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603060081
• ISBN13: 9781603060080
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 9.3"