Confessions of an Outer Banks Filly (Paperback)

Product Description
To a little girl observing the world from the porch of her family's house above her father's store in the middle of Hatteras Village in the 1930s, life was inventive and wonderful: you rolled hoops, played bobjacks, licked nickel ice cream cones on hot days, built tents from the fifty-pound burlap bags the chicken feed was delivered in, and - if you were very lucky - scored a direct hit on the head of one of your father's customers when you spit carefully through a knot hole in the porch floor. In Confessions of an Outer Banks Filly, author Sybil Skakle evokes memories of simpler times with great warmth and charm. There were pre-dawn swimming lessons in a red wool bathing suit with Miss Maude, the town's Postmaster; little girls singing endless rounds of "Frankie and Johnnie" on the front porch; breakfast at the dining room table with your feet in the tidewater during a hurricane; and a ghost who played the piano in the middle of the night. The Great Depression, a Hatteras Christmas, the Hurricane of 1936, recipes for Poor Man's Cake and Hatteras Island Pone Bread, outdoor toilets, Monday washday - the smallest details combine to create a huge picture of life in a fishing village of five hundred back when all a child needed was an imagination. Readers old and young alike will be delighted.

About the Author
Sybil Austin Skakle was born in Hatteras, NC, and graduated from Hatteras High School in 1943. She graduated from the University of North Carolina with a BS in Pharmacy and worked for more than twenty years as a pharmacist for the Durham County Hospital Corporation. She is a member of the Friday Noon Poets, the NC Poetry Society, the North Carolina Writers' Network, the Chapel Hill Christian Writers, and the Chapel Hill Senior Center Writers Discussion Group. Her articles and poems have been published throughout the country in various periodicals.