From the rear cover
Miss Willie, first published in 1951, is the second novel in Janice Holt Giles's Piney Ridge trilogy, which includes also The Enduring Hills and Tara's Healing. Although the plot is fictional, the central character is based on Giles's mother and some of the episodes are drawn from her life. This is the story of a dedicated teacher who moves to the hills of Kentucky to teach in a one-room schoolhouse at Piney Ridge. Zealously she tries to change the ways of the stubborn and proud Appalachian people - but to no avail. They listen to her crazy ideas about sanitation and other foolishness because to argue would be rude. But in the end they quietly go about their accustomed ways. Ultimately Miss Willie realizes that the hill customs have a beauty and dignity of their own and that some of her efforts to reform them were ill-conceived. Her warmth, generosity, and humor help her bridge the gap and find fulfillment in Piney Ridge. This is a story of reconciliation and the coming together of two different ways of life. Above all, it is a story of people and of the land to which they belong.
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- Title Miss Willie
- Author Janice Holt Giles
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
- Date 1994-09-27
- ISBN 9780813108315 / 0813108314
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.56 x 0.84 in (21.64 x 14.12 x 2.13 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Women teachers, Kentucky
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94012223
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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