Womenfolks

A classic that has been in print since its first publication in 1983, Womenfolks is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the often pernicious mythologies of southern cultural history. Shirley Abbott gives us the gritty, independent women of the backwoods, the South’s true heroines, whose hardscrabble world is one of red dirt and hard work—a far cry from the hoopskirts and magnolias of southern lore. As honest, vibrant, and remarkable as the women whose stories illuminate these pages, Womenfolks draws a vivid portrait of a rural culture beset by poverty and sustained by deeply rooted traditions. In her new preface to this edition, Abbott assesses what has changed—and what may never change—about the burdens of southern history and expresses her hope that the better angels of our nature may prevail in our still-new century.

The Book Majesty Son: Millennium Kingdom America opens up recognizing the Holy Bible as the divine book that gives proof, the existence of God the Father along with God the Son and why they both are known as Majesty beings. The book Majesty Son: Millennium Kingdom America identifies an enemy and speaks of him as the Ancient Spirit, it reveals his evil works and how he dwelt among them throughout time and history. The book outlines and gives in some details how the Earth and Humans with all other things came to exist as of this time now and of past history. The book also shows how the Ancient Spirit uses his powers and evil craftiness, to destroy or corrupt all things the creator has created in this place call Earth. First dealing with God the Father and Son creation of the Earth and Humans that are involve in leadership forms of power, to govern and create laws in the Majesty Son most powerful Millennium Kingdom America.

Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.

Detailed research provides an authentic base for the story of David Cooper, a hunter and frontiersman who settles down in 1770s Kentucky

Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930's, journeys from being a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance.