The Family

By J. Andrews Smith

With this book, J. Andrews Smith, MSW, makes a unique contribution to the fields of North Carolina historiography, sociology, and social work. Almost 20 years ago, Clyde F. McSwain published a detailed account of his life at the Masonic Orphanage at Oxford, North Carolina. Nearly 10 years later, Richard McKenzie published a penetrating memoir of his life in the Presbyterian Orphanage at Barium Springs, North Carolina. A few other full-length recollections of orphanage life may have been written and published, but there is no other book, I think, similar to this one by Mr. Smith. His is no less than a collection of firsthand accounts of life as lived by a succession of children in the Free Will Baptist Orphanage (or Children's Home) at Middlesex, North Carolina, over a period of nearly 90 years-from the second decade of the 20th century to the first decade of the 21st century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514321343
• ISBN13: 9781514321348
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"