A Thousand Weddings (eBook)

The Memoir of Hope Hart of West Tennessee

Marvin Downing (Herausgeber)

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2025 | 1
272 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-945-3 (ISBN)

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Born at the dawn of the twentieth century, Hope Harts life spanned a dynamic period in American history, particularly in the South. As the daughter of Sterling Hart, a traveling Methodist minister from Weakley County in northwest Tennessee, Hopes early years were shaped by her fathers work preaching and performing wedding ceremonies across Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Throughout her childhood, Hart witnessed the last days of the nineteenth-century Methodist circuit riders and the rapid evolution of the postCivil War South. As an adult, Hart worked as a teacher and high school principal in northwest Tennessee before moving to Washington, DC, where she served as an administrative assistant to several US representatives over the course of her career. Completed in 1962 and published here for the first time, A Thousand Weddings offers a firsthand account of a rapidly changing West Tennessee and its surrounding regions during the early twentieth century. Hart paints a vivid picture of life during this time, including rich descriptions of clothing (especially wedding attire), food, transportation, and attitudes toward religion, race, education, and marriage. In presenting Hart's story, editor Marvin Downing adds crucial context and commentary that situate the events of her life against the backdrop of significant moments in American history, including the Jackson Purchase, the growing influence of Jim Crow laws, and the First World War. With its blend of personal anecdotes and historical context, A Thousand Weddings is both a heartwarming and engaging read and a thought-provoking journey through many facets of Tennessee history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.3.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 7 photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1800s • 19th century • archival memoir • Baptism • Calaboose • Circuit Rider • civil war era • early 1900s transportation • early 20th-century South • early American weddings • Farmhouse • historical memoir Tennessee • hope hart • Hope Hart memoir • Jackson Purchase • jackson purchase region • Jim Crow laws history • marriage customs history • Marvin Downing editor • Memoir • Methodism • Methodist Church • Methodist church traditions • Methodist circuit riders • Methodist history Tennessee • Northwest Tennessee educators • pink mules • post–Civil War South • primary source • reconstruction • reelfoot lake • revivalism • rural Tennessee life • social history Tennessee • southern food history • southern methodism • southern religion and race • southern wedding attire • Sterling Hart preacher • Tennessee History • Tennessee Methodist heritage • Tennessee women’s history • wedding traditions history • West Tennessee • West Tennessee culture • women educators Tennessee • WWI Tennessee experiences
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-945-X / 162190945X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-945-3 / 9781621909453