In the 1800's Will and Ellen Johnston moved to Carolina side of the mountain along the border between North Carolina and Tennessee. This is their family story, as told by their oldest daughter, Nola, on her 100th birthday. This book relates a pioneer family's trials and tribulations and is filled with mountain folklore, family history, and exciting adventures.
In the early ninteenth century Will and Ellen Johnston moved to "the Carolina side of the mountain" along the border between North Carolina and Tennessee. Patchwork is their family story, a tale that could be told in every generation. Two young people meet, marry, and set off to build their dreams. They work hard, raise a family, experience joy and sorrow, and watch their children set off into the world on their own.
Patchwork is also the story of a mountain family in the early ninteenth century in which folk medicine, superstition, and the conflicts of human experience are sewn together in a style as homespun as the mountain quilts that serve as the metaphor for the book.
Patchwork is also the story of a mountain family in the early ninteenth century in which folk medicine, superstition, and the conflicts of human experience are sewn together in a style as homespun as the mountain quilts that serve as the metaphor for the book.
