Out of the Black Patch
Subtitle: the autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, folk musician, artist, and writer
By: edited by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson.
Contributors: Carmack, Noel A., 1967-; Davidson, Karen Lynn.
Series: Life writings of frontier women ;; v. 4
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Logan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Carmack, Effie Marquess, 1885-1974; Farm life -- Kentucky; Mormons -- Kentucky -- Biography; Folk singers -- United States -- Biography; Painters -- United States -- Biography; Authors, American -- Biography; Kentucky -- Social life and customs; Kentucky -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Effie Carmack's memoir emphasizes her vibrant childhood on a poor tobacco farm. She describes a wide variety of folk practices, from healing and crafts to children's games and amusements. Her family's life included the backbreaking labor and economic trials of raising tobacco but was enriched by a web of relatives, a deep familial heritage, communal music, creative play, and many other traditional activities. The Marquesses' baptism as Mormons added another important dimension to Effie's life.

Her account of turn-of-the-century Mormon missionaries adds to the record of Latter-day Saint attempts to establish a presence in the South. But it is the articulate, observant, vernacular voice of a turn-of-the-century woman from rural Kentucky that is most evident in her narrative."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-385) and index.