Letters from Kentucky: My Search for Aunt Carrie (Paperback)

In 1912, Carrie D. Reaves, a young woman from a privileged family in South Carolina went to the mountains of Kentucky to teach in a mission school. While there she wrote letters to her family and to her college roommate. These letters describe her experiences both as a new teacher as a young woman in an environment different from what she had seen before. Her early feelings about the people and her pupils were uncertain, but she soon learned to love them, and that love was reciprocated by all she met. This book attempts to identify the people she met and and wrote about and the sometimes unusual figures of speech apparently common a century ago but no longer used today. An extensive "annotated index" serves as a glossary as well as a guide to the people, places, and words that appear in the letters.