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Presence / Glenis Redmond -- Edge of night from The days between the years / Sherry Austin -- I'll be home for Christmas / Nancy Purcell -- Grandpa and the snow snakes / Penny Morse -- Colored angels / Dare Freeman Ford -- Purple violets / Barbara Ledford Wright -- Eve of Christ / Jeri Senor -- Rhella Jobe / Lana Hendershott -- Open letter to Mr. Claus / Susan Reinhardt -- Memories of wartime Christmases / Mary D. Marsh -- Bag of sugar for Paula / Carole R. Thompson -- French harp / Glenda Barrett -- Jewish Christmas / Jessica Heriot -- At Christmas / Nancy Dillinghm -- Solace of solstice / Janice Norman -- Connections / Marian Gowan -- Miss Bessie Mae and the Christmas biker / Brenda Kay Ledford -- Year of the socks / Sonja Contois -- Christmas catalog / Nancy Sales Cash -- Southside diner / Cecily Hamlin Wells -- Most memorable Christmas / Louise K. Nelson -- And the animals knelt / Celia H. Miles -- Western North Carolina: Winter's silent theatre (in ten acts) / MariJo Moore -- O holy night / Pam Shuford Murray -- Doll who came to Christmas dinner / Cynthia Stewart -- Where's the spirit? / Mona Rae Miracle -- Elves in our Attic / Mary Louise Welther. |
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Midwife of Bethlehem / June Bare -- Magic of snow / Polly Kent -- Season of lights: how we celebrated a Hillbilly Yule / H. Byron Ballard -- Mavericks / Cheryl Dietrich -- Silk handkerchief / Sherry W. Boone -- Untitled / Pat Riviere-Seel -- Tannenbaum and stollen / Beverly Ohler -- Christmas in July / Martha O'Quin -- Elves for Santa / Karen Luke Jackson -- Christmas copper pot / Peg Rhodes -- Logging camp Christmas / Exie Wilde Henson -- Not even a mouse / Gwenda Ledbetter -- We didn't do Christmas without you / Joan Blessing -- Hair-raising holiday / Susan Snowden -- Little red stocking / Joan Crook -- I believe / Tonya Staufer -- Weathering Christmas / Cecily Hamlin Wells -- Santa redux: afterthoughts on giving / Nancy Dillingham -- Yellow-haired doll / Dee Dee Parker -- Experience to fiction: a Christmas memory preserved / Julia Nunnally Duncan. |
| Abstract |
Written in the unique voices of women writers who have roots in and connections to western North Carolina, these Christmas stories, essays, poems, and memoirs, add seasoning to the cultural landscape of a region already rich in custom and lore. |
| ISBN | 9781597122597 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1597122599 (pbk.) |
