Two Longs and a Short An Ozark Boyhood Remembered

Joe and Rena Gilliland raised their two daughters on this eighty-acre farm east of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Stories Joe told on their front porch after dinner encouraged his grandson, Phillip Steele, to record these memories of early Ozark culture."Early Ozark farm families' lives were hard, but they shared a sense of responsibility and commitment to their community. Their daily life is remembered by the little boy who spent long, lazy summer afternoons in his grandpa's hay loft, bathed in the warmth of the land and the solidarity of its citizens. While you're sharing his memories, don't be surprised if you're taken back to a time when water was sweet and no one could cook like Grandma. Then go right ahead and make yourself some buttermilk biscuits with blackberry jam."--Jan Cooper, editor and friendSteele, Phillip is the author of 'Two Longs and a Short An Ozark Boyhood Remembered', published 2004 under ISBN 9781589802018 and ISBN 1589802012.