An enduring combination of Welsh traditions and superstitions along with deep Southern pride and perseverance create a unique childhood on the Hawk Creek farm. This mixed heritage, though, as different as chalk and cheese, provides a remarkable foundation for integrity, truth, and the power to believe in a past strong enough to carry into the future. Mollie Nicholson intimately reveals a glimpse into her own family life in Eastern Washington on a canyon farm in Lincoln County during the 1920s. Charming, thoughtful, and refreshingly honest, Nicholson upholds two different traditions and speaks of a time most of us have forgotten. With her Welsh mother and North Carolinian father, Nicholson describes her childhood home as a crosswalk of inherited backgrounds from the Heather Hills of Wales and the tobacco plantations of the South.
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After graduating from Eastern Washington College in Cheney, Washington, Mollie Nicholson taught school for nearly thirty years, teaching writing, English, and math. She was awarded the Lucille McDonald Memorial Award by the Pacific Northwest Writers’ Conference, July 1993, on the merits of several chapters of her book. Preceded in death by her husband, Mollie has two children, seven grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren.
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How it was in Hawk Creek Canyon,
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Ms. Nicholson writes of her childhood experiences growing up on a farm in eastern Washington state in the 1920's. She opens by telling us that her mother is a Welshman and her father is a North Carolina Tarheel. She begins the tale at the age of eleven, as the oldest of five children and deftly describes the life of a farm family whose parents backgrounds are "as different as chalk and cheese". It is the tale of the sometimes difficult life of a loving farm family. Ms. Nicholson writes in the vernacular of her parents and grandparents and uses short ditties and tunes passed on by them to demonstrate the distinct differences between the stiff British tradition of her mother and the deep southern philosophy of her father. The book is slow reading, but nevertheless an enjoyable snapshot of simpler times and a unique family.
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