Homesick for the Hills

by Alyce Faye Bragg

This collection of columns are woven with a nostaligic note of how life used to be in the hills of Clay County, West Virginia and underlines the longing of those who have left the country life to come back home again. It describes accurately the land, its people, and their country ways.

241 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2000

Reviews

[Virginia Myers · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book contains a collection of folksy newspaper columns written by the author for her local newspaper in WV in the 1980's and 1990's. The subjects range from catching fireflies to how to cook a groundhog. I especially liked a column on mountain talk that made me smile as I remembered growing up in WV - some of the phrases that I liked were: saying "tejous" for tedious, "p'izen for poison, a "hard" girl for hired girl, "being plumb wore out", "tired to the bone", "plumb petered out", and "taking a cheer" for taking a chair" - these phrases may be common to other parts of the country, too, but I sure remember them from home. I think I would have rated the individual columns higher than I rated the book - a little bit at a time would have pleased me more than the whole book did.