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The Neugents: "Close to Home." (review)

The Neugents: "Close to Home." (review) Reviews Our regular review section features some of the best new books, films, and sound record- ings in southern studies. From time to time you'll also find reviews of important new museum exhibitions and public-history sites, and retrospectives on classic works that continue to shape our understanding of the region and its people. Our aim is to explore the rich diversity of southern life and the methods and approaches of those who study it. Please write us to share your suggestions or to add your name to our reviewer file. The Neugents: "Close to Home." By David M. Spear. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1993. n.p. Cloth, $40.00. Reviewed by Pamela Grundy, a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of You Always Think of Home: A Portrait of Clay County, Alabama and of The Most Democratic Sport: Basketball and Culture in the Central Piedmont, 1893-1994. Eighty-year-old Mamie Neugent leans over her kitchen table, plunging her head of long white hair into a metal bowl of water at the newspaper-covered edge. On the bowl's rim, above the dampened print, she rests fingers swollen wide from age and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

The Neugents: "Close to Home." (review)

Grundy, Pamela.
Southern Cultures , Volume 1 (3) – Jan 4, 1995
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Reviews Our regular review section features some of the best new books, films, and sound record- ings in southern studies. From time to time you'll also find reviews of important new museum exhibitions and public-history sites, and retrospectives on classic works that continue to shape our understanding of the region and its people. Our aim is to explore the rich diversity of southern life and the methods and approaches of those who study it. Please write us to share your suggestions or to add your name to our reviewer file. The Neugents: "Close to Home." By David M. Spear. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1993. n.p. Cloth, $40.00. Reviewed by Pamela Grundy, a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of You Always Think of Home: A Portrait of Clay County, Alabama and of The Most Democratic Sport: Basketball and Culture in the Central Piedmont, 1893-1994. Eighty-year-old Mamie Neugent leans over her kitchen table, plunging her head of long white hair into a metal bowl of water at the newspaper-covered edge. On the bowl's rim, above the dampened print, she rests fingers swollen wide from age and

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Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 4, 1995

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