Title: The adventure of Charlie and his wheat-straw hat
Description: As money is short in seven-year-old Charlie's Appalachian home during the Civil War and there is not enough to buy the straw hat that Charlie wants to wear to school, he and his grandmother decide to make a hat themselves.
Subjects: Fiction, Grandmothers, Hats, History, Mountain life, United States Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865