Snippets of Truths: Memories of a Southern Childhood

By Mary Hardy

Stories are the backbone of life. In Snippets of Truths, author Mary Hardy shares the stories of her youth while growing up in rural southern Mississippi in the fifties and sixties. A collection of anecdotes and vignettes, this memoir narrates the memorable experiences of Hardys childhood.

From the large to the small, and from the ordinary and everyday to the remarkable, Snippets of Truths recalls a wide array of eventsliving on a farm, working in the fields, attending school, participating as a majorette, becoming homecoming queen, making homemade ice cream, and creating dolls out of Coca Cola bottles.

Providing a glimpse into life in the South, Snippets of Truths communicates the nostalgia that resides within each and every one of us.

I remember the day when the world was told that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated as if it was yesterday. Everything and everyone came to a sudden and silent halt. It was as if the world had ended. I was sitting at my desk in a Mississippi history class with twenty-five other students. Our teacher was standing near the chalkboard, sharing historical information with the class. If we were talking at all, we stopped. After a while, we continued our class discussion, but with focus on the president.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781475984507

Mary Hardy

Mary Hardy is a retired educator and executive director for a local nonprofit organization. She and her husband, Charles, have a merged family of six children and grandchildren. They live in Greenville, Mississippi. This is Hardy’s second published book.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1:   Girl, You Have Pretty Legs

2:   Standing Upright in the Cotton Field

3:   Take Your Sardine Can Home

4:   Ole Bossy Gal

5:   Sweater in the Summertime

6:   Auntee

7:   Tenth-Grade Class

8:   Majorette

9:   Homecoming Queen

10:   First Year of School

11:   Third Grade and Raw Eggs

12:   Sixth Grade and the Grammar Jar

13:   Math and Life

14:   High School English Teacher

15:   Making Homemade Ice Cream

16:   Worried about My Sister

17:   Coca-Cola Bottle Dolls

18:   Thoughts of Remembrance

19:   Picking Peas and Cucumbers during the Summer

20:   Dressed for the Sun

21:   Bringing Up the Cows and Feeding the Pigs

22:   Butchering the Hogs and the Smokehouse

23:   Sunday Shoes

24:   Riding the School Bus and Getting Frostbite

25:   My Grandfather and the Car

26:   My First Grandchild

27:   Parching Corn

28:   Cooking Biscuits on the Open Fire

29:   Roasting Potatoes over the Open Fire

30:   Reading the Progressive Farmer

31:   Prince Albert Tobacco Can and the Spring Water

32:   July Fourth Disappointment

33:   A Daughter’s Story

34:   Parents’ Story

35: