Each student learned two marketable skills by working half-day and academics half-day. Kudos goes to Piney Woods for her success in the work arena and a fifty-year marriage. She met her husband at Piney Woods. This is her life.

After its organization, Yazoo County was rapidly settled by pioneers from other parts of Mississippi and from the Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Junior Jenkins, influenced by a large family, poverty, faith, and the ever-present kudzu vine, mingles fact, fiction and homegrown wisdom to remember those cotton picking days in Yazoo City, Mississippi.

One of these districts included Yazoo City, the hometown of writer Willie Morris.

One of these districts included Yazoo City, the hometown of writer Willie Morris.

This book excels both as an appealing memoir and as an authentic representation of family life, race, religion, and the societal expectations placed on refined young women during those times.