White poplar, black locust
By: Louise Wagenknecht.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Rousch family; Fruit Growers Supply Company -- History; Wooden box industry -- California -- Hilt -- History -- 20th century; Lumber trade -- California -- Hilt -- History -- 20th century; Company towns -- California -- History -- 20th century; Hilt (Calif.) -- Biography; Hilt (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Hilt (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Louise Wagenknecht grew up in one of the West's last company lumber towns, a small community called Hilt on the California-Oregon border. There she witnessed the dying years of a unique way of life, the tail-end of the 1950s lumber boom that would devastate the ancient old-growth forests of the Klamath Mountains as well as the people of Hilt, whose lives were inextricably tied to the company lumber mill.

White Poplar, Black Locust is the story of that transformation, but it is also something more - a noteworthy addition to the literature of place, the book is also a sensitive and richly textured family memoir.

As Wagenknecht unravels the threads that still bind her to both Hilt's history and her own, unforgettable characters emerge, and what should have been the happy ending to this story; the marriage of her divorced mother to a forester working for the Fruit Growers Supply Company, becomes instead the end of childhood innocence, foretelling the demise of the mill and the end of Hilt itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255).