Granny's Garden of Verses
Self-Published, 1990. Limited Ed. Spiralbound. New black spiral w/laminated gray cover. Compiled by grand-daughter Dawna M. Johnson. No pagination but 215 raw Appalachian poems. New. Item #752
True Appalachian poetry with a twist of humor from the heart in the heart of Appalachia.
Myrtle A. Wheatley Johnson was born either 1904 or 1906 in Logan County, WV. She married in 1934. They lived in a variety of places and moved to Kentucky in 1944 on Route 7.
Table of Contents includes: A Birds Heart; An Old One Room; Are You a Man?; Beautiful Hills of Kentucky; Brandin' the Herd; Hillbilly People; Kissed by Jack Frost; Lonely Wind; Migration Time; Mountain Echo; and my favorite - My Hen Peg...many more.
Price: $25.00