ASIN: B00AQRSXAQ
Publisher: MM John Welda BookHouse
Pages: 164
Addie Briggs story collection celebrates her family and friends from the last two centuries in this updated and expanded edition of her 1985 book. Much of the action transpires among the piney woods of Telfair County in south Georgia. In this work you will meet the early settlers. As she says in the foreword: “Contrary to what one often reads in local histories and genealogies, our ancestors were not all saints. Neither were they all war heroes and most of them were far more likely to struggle along on a small farm than to own a large plantation. In short, one might say that our forebears failed to live up to our expectations. The trouble with these ancestors was that they were real people. Sometimes they were good, sometimes bad; sometimes they were wise, and sometimes foolish. Perhaps they were a bit like us, with one major difference. There seems to have been more of a spirited ...
