TY - JOUR
AU - Cobb, Alice.
AB -  HERITAGE STORY Alice Cobb The letter arrived at the office of the State Home for Children, addressed "to Whom It May Consern": This plee is in God's name for the sucker of a motherless, fatherless orphant boy, now roming these here lonesom hills, name of David Elijah Dixon, wild as a banshee pretty as an angel, and no roof to cover. If public moneys be not for the benefit of such then what profet is this goverment. Resptfly yrs, W. Sprigg Esq. That was toward the end of September. On the third of October, I was parking my car in front of the dingy old courthouse at Nancy, county seat of Nancy County, about as far back in the Cumberlands as a vehicle will go. I climbed out of my car and stood for a full minute in the gutter, gathering courage to run a gauntlet of whittlers and chewers stretched out in front. No one appeared to notice me, then or when I picked a cautious way among them up the steps. The big hallway inside was empty except for an old man and a child, seated on a bench against the wall. As soon as my 
TI - Permanent Home for David Elijah
JF - Appalachian Review
DA - 1992-01-08
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-north-carolina-press/permanent-home-for-david-elijah-NLJnR7JZQF
SP - 52
EP - 59
VL - 20
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -