![]() ![]() ![]() The taller the candle, the more time for the visit. ![]() The courting candle had a heavy spiral core that held the candle and allowed her father to raise or lower it based on how much he liked the man. They argue about why it is necessary for her to marry, but ultimately her father wins and the “courting candle” is set on the porch to await the suiter’s arrival. When we first meet Cussy, she is awaiting the arrival of yet another potential husband invited to visit by her father. I kept having to stop my reading in order to use Google for topics such as “blue people of Kentucky” and the “WPA”. But, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek quickly brought me into the life of Cussy Mary Carter and pulled me into a world I had no idea existed. I had no preconceived ideas of what this book was about, other than a horse-riding library woman in the Appalachian Mountains. I recently borrowed “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek”, by Kim Michele Richardson from our local online library. ![]()
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