This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Grandmother’s Kitchen Tales and a Dilemma in Rose Garden
A young narrator recalls grandmotherly lessons from Charity the cook and daily farm life in a Cape Fear family. Vivid memories of eggs, china dolls, and a trick about Lucy the hen lead to lessons on authenticity and trust, then a ferry trip to visit enslaved ancestors and a rosily described garden that sparks the desire to write.
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Chile
Charity
Grandma
Grandmother
Rhode Island
Lucy
Cape Fear
May
Will
T.J
Grandpa T.J
Thomas Jefferson