Hoot Owls, Honeysuckle and Hallelujah, Privately printed edition

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Wake-Brook House / privately printed edition. Hardcover, 195 pp, 1981 reprint. Good in good dust jacket. Flower patterned cloth covered boards with black cloth tape and gold lettering on spine. light bumping to edges. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1/4" chip to the paper over the front corner of the spine and several 1" or less nicks and tears and creasing along edges. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality Brodart Cover NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Includes a few black and white illustrations [From jacket flaps] A cyclone of a man was Yancey Cox of Randolph County, North Carolina, who, in the '70s and '80s, stirred up a commotion heard throughout the state. His achievements in education, public service, and stock breeding attracted notice far and wide. So did his operating style which, with a General Patton flair for individualism, flabbergasted the countryside. This book, written by his youngest son, tells how Yancey got that way. It tells by going back to Yancey's first American Quaker forebears, who tamed the wilderness, built up a plantation, and learned about life by doing everything that had to be done for the survival of life itself. Harmon Cox, Yancey's first North Carolina forebear, helped kill the Stamp Act and headed the Procurement Department of Washington's Army; a later Harmon, Yancey's father, and his wife freed their slaves . . . in the 1840s: a Cox kinsman was Surgeon General of the Union Army; another Quaker kinsman Major General fought four years in the Union Army; and Yancey, great-great-grandson of Harmon, came to preside over a family of fourteen around the broad hearth his ancestor had built in 1751 in the Carolina colony, on the homestead which became the Cox plantation.Into this never-dull family saga the author has woven the fabric of life as it was lived by Coxes for some 300 years. North Carolina lore, customs, sayings, shades of old romance, homespun humor, and the spirit of initiative of which Yancey Cox was a living embodiment, unfold before your eyes a wealth of hard-to-comeby Americana you will long remember, and may well be assumed by any reader as typical probably of his very own family story. A man ahead of his time, Yancey Cox left behind a tall monument of esteem. And to readers of this book, especially to teen-agers who wonder what old-time teen-agers were really like, these pages will bring back a fascinating America. N° de ref. del artículo 20180112001

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