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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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