The Climb from Salt Lick
A Memoir of Appalachia
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2018
West Virginia University Press (Verlag)
978-1-946684-18-9 (ISBN)
West Virginia University Press (Verlag)
978-1-946684-18-9 (ISBN)
In the mid-1970s, Nancy L. Abrams, a young photojournalist from the Midwest, plunges into life as a small-town reporter in West Virginia. The Climb from Salt Lick is the remarkable memoir of an outsider coming into adulthood. It is the story of a unique place and its people from the perspective of woman who documents its burdens and its beauty.
In the mid-1970s, Nancy L. Abrams, a young photojournalist from the Midwest, plunges into life as a small-town reporter in West Virginia. She befriends the hippies on the commune one mountaintop over, rents a cabin in beautiful Salt Lick Valley, and falls in love with a local boy, wrestling to balance the demands of a job and a personal life. She learns how to survive in Appalachia—how to heat with coal and wood, how to chop kindling, plant a garden, and preserve produce.
The Climb from Salt Lick is the remarkable memoir of an outsider coming into adulthood. It is the story of a unique place and its people from the perspective of woman who documents its burdens and its beauty, using words and pictures to tell the rich stories of those around her.
In the mid-1970s, Nancy L. Abrams, a young photojournalist from the Midwest, plunges into life as a small-town reporter in West Virginia. She befriends the hippies on the commune one mountaintop over, rents a cabin in beautiful Salt Lick Valley, and falls in love with a local boy, wrestling to balance the demands of a job and a personal life. She learns how to survive in Appalachia—how to heat with coal and wood, how to chop kindling, plant a garden, and preserve produce.
The Climb from Salt Lick is the remarkable memoir of an outsider coming into adulthood. It is the story of a unique place and its people from the perspective of woman who documents its burdens and its beauty, using words and pictures to tell the rich stories of those around her.
Nancy Abrams is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where she trained as a photojournalist. She has worked as a photographer, writer, and editor at the Preston County News, the Dominion Post, and Panorama. She holds an MFA in nonfiction from The New School and has been a professional writer and photographer for four decades.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.04.2018 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 36 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Morganstown |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 226 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-946684-18-X / 194668418X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-946684-18-9 / 9781946684189 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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