Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover)

The climb from Salt Lick, a memoir of Appalachia, Nancy L. Abrams

eng

autobiography

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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no index present

non fiction

The climb from Salt Lick

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Nancy L. Abrams

a memoir of Appalachia

"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."--, Provided by publisher

A home -- Carpetbagger -- Salt Lick and calamity -- Non compos mentis -- Embedded -- I grow fond -- Take me home, country roads -- Real life -- The move to Salt Lick -- Through calamity -- A doctor! and he's Jewish! -- Ramps -- The commune down Salt Lick, part 1 -- Pot roast -- A mate -- Switching gears -- Judy Judy Judy -- Diamonds are a girl's best friend -- Disaster practice -- West Virginia brigadoon -- The commune down Salt Lick, part 2 -- Civil war -- Deer dear friend -- Happy daze -- Why is this night different? -- Black power -- The murderer and me -- Buckwheat baby -- Apple cider -- Busted -- Dilettante -- The nesting instinct -- Experiments with utopia -- Changes in altitude -- The cheat 1 -- The cheat 2 -- The climb from Salt Lick