Rennie's Way by Verna Mae Slone

Rennie's Way by Verna Mae Slone"This first work of fiction by Verna Mae Slone, firmly grounded in her own background, is set in the 1920s and 1930s in a closeknit community in eastern Kentucky, where family roots run deep. At its center stands as strong and resilient a heroine as any in American literature. Verna Mae Slone, a native of Knott County, Kentucky, is the author of several books, including the bestselling memoir, What My Heart Wants to Tell. Verna Mae Slone, a native of

" James Still grew up in Alabama before settling down in Knott County

all the way to familiar and well-established creators like West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman and local artist of “No Hate in My Holler” fame Lacy Hale

women grinding meat and mixing sausage and readying hams for preservation

"—Carter Sickels

~Holly Goddard Jones

as her mentor had urged

and come over in here and sot down

Two sisters love each other deeply even when they cannot understand one another

The Evolution of the Gospelettes follows the family and their transformation from old-time gospel singers in the 1970s to performers on a televangelist program in the 1980s to founding members of a megachurch in the 1990s

Haiti or Guatemala

Narrated by a young boy (a cousin of the narrator of Still's classic novel River of Earth)

Each mug is individually handmade and my vary in color