country stories missing gathering

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Way Back in the Country: Recipes from six generations of East Texas farm cooking and the stories behind them
Kay Wheeler Moore

Hannibal Books, 2002

Family recipes you'll just have to try . . . Way Back in the Country, in the days of yesteryear, the biggest events around were two-week-long outdoor revivals and box suppers, where the most creative dinner pails took the prize--when food was always a key link in a family's sweet communion. In farm-rich Delta County, TX, you'll still hear folks speak of the Three Red-Haired Miller Girls, who grew up in those bygone times and whose family ...

Gathering the Missing Pieces in an Adopted Life
Kay Wheeler Moore

Hannibal, 2002

What do you say to a mother you've never seen? True stories of trial and triumph in the search for birth families by adoptees. Written by an adopted Pulitzer Prize nominee. Only a few days before I boarded the plane, I for the first time in my life had looked at the face of an adult whom I physically resembled, the author writes. When photos of my birth mother arrived in the mail, they were greeted by shrieks of joy and wonder by my husband and ...