The Red Hots / Wynolia C. Apple.
| Author/creator |
Apple, Wynolia C., 1944- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Bahama, N.C. : Moon Lodge Press, [2002] |
| Copyright Notice | ©2002 |
| Description | xviii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
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| Contents | Emma Flye Lanier. The prayer meeting ; Granddaddy's little girl ; Nursing in the early 1900s -- Elsie Nobels Clark. The impersonator ; The Red Hots' beginning ; The yankees are coming! ; Precious memories ; Third floor at the YWCA -- Mary Elizabeth Higson. Determined to get an education ; The flood of September '99 ; Playing with The Red Hots -- Mary Elizabeth McLaughlin. "Big Shot" ; An admirable father ; The way things were -- Virginia Dare Bradley. The blizzard ; Playing for dinner ; Drinking postum ; A prayer answered ; The candy striper -- Annie Lee Shearing. Saved by a technicality ; Six old hens ; Marked children ; Tribute to Johnny ; The flood and the media -- Cora Mavis Harper Campbell. Just the way times were ; The gift of life ; Theft at the cemetery -- Winifred Coggin Cochran. Treasures from the past ; The flood of '99 -- Alene Langley Burnette. Noah's Ark versus the Titanic ; Working in tobacco ; A leap of faith -- Mary Savad Blunt. Surviving adversity ; The life of a nurse ; Adversity strikes again -- Hilda Harrell. The French teacher ; Mama's cures -- Mavis Godwin. Hog killing days ; From cracklings to Elvis -- Nellie Stone. I am not a farmer ; God is good -- Doris Manning. One day at a time ; The dancer -- Hattie Taylor Barrett. Mama's rest home ; Loving old folks -- Elizabeth Bunting. A love story -- Ruth Haskins Harris. Oriental, N.C., in the early 1900s -- Linda Bailey Lanier. The poet ; A terminal case ; Spring fever ; The amazing Mets ; Rabbits ; Day dreams ; Growing up ; My nurse -- List of members in The Red Hots -- "Whispering hope". |
| Abstract | Stories of a group of women in their 70s, 80s, and 90s who, refusing to get old, formed a rhythm band to entertain residents in nursing homes. They were soon in big demand. Their stories teach us to listen for the music of our lives. |
| LCCN | 2003266834 |
| ISBN | 0966607317 |
| ISBN | 9780966607314 |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML421.R43 A85 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |