voice of small-town America
Subtitle: the selected writings of Robert Quillen, 1920-1948
By: compiled and edited by John Hammond Moore.
Contributors: Moore, John Hammond.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781570037108
Subjects: Quillen, Robert, -- 1887-1948 -- Anecdotes; City and town life -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes; City and town life -- South Carolina -- Fountain Inn -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes; Newspaper editors -- South Carolina -- Fountain Inn -- Biography -- Anecdotes; City and town life -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes; South Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes; Fountain Inn (S.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes; Fountain Inn (S.C.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes; Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the South Caroliniana Library, with the assistance of the Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund and the University South Caroliniana Society."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1925 : Wives, gals, and Mother Eve; title: 1926 : "You can't trust Spring"; title: 1928 : "As an uplifter and reformer, I am a Dud"; title: 1929 : "The bride is a skinny, fast little idiot"; title: 1930 : The tragic death of Jack DuPre; title: 1931 : "The Tribune is merely a private hobby"; title: 1932 : Jenkins the Bolshevist, "Cotton Ed," and FDR; title: 1933 : "Nobody is making money"; title: 1934 : "Ye cannot love both birds and cats"; title: 1935 : How rabbits became weak little runts; title: 1936-1946 : Dealing with change; title: 1947 : "The Missus runs the whole shebang"; title: 1948 : "Louise, your dad was a good man".