The climb from Salt Lick
Subtitle: a memoir of Appalachia
By: Nancy L. Abrams
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Vandalia Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781946684189
Subjects: Photojournalists; Pictorial works; Description and travel; Biography; Women photographers
Other titles: Memoir of Appalachia
Description: "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 a woman who documents its burdens and its beauty, using words and pictures to tell the rich stories of those around her"--
Table of contents: title: A home; title: Carpetbagger; title: Salt Lick and calamity; title: Non compos mentis; title: Embedded; title: I grow fond; title: Take me home, country roads; title: Real life; title: The move to Salt Lick; title: Through calamity; title: A doctor! and he's Jewish!; title: Ramps; title: The commune down Salt Lick, part 1; title: Pot roast; title: A mate; title: Switching gears; title: Judy Judy Judy; title: Diamonds are a girl's best friend; title: Disaster practice; title: West Virginia brigadoon; title: The commune down Salt Lick, part 2; title: Civil war; title: Deer dear friend; title: Happy daze; title: Why is this night different?; title: Black power; title: The murderer and me; title: Buckwheat baby; title: Apple cider; title: Busted; title: Dilettante; title: The nesting instinct; title: Experiments with utopia; title: Changes in altitude; title: The cheat 1; title: The cheat 2; title: The climb from Salt Lick.