A rich account of life in rural North Carolina during and soon after WWI, as told through personal letters written between 1916 and 1920. The story of the Hopkins-Strickland families and their friends has all the elements of a book that you won't want to put down: romance, as young men and women were vying for each other's affections; boys going off to fight in WWI; the Spanish Influenza pandemic; undisguised adoration by one woman for another; use of local vernacular and colloquialisms of the day; a look at the culture & day to day lives of a rural community during that time. The final letter in the collection, written on February 14, 1920, provides a wonderfully romantic ending. Part 1 of the book gives historical background on WWI, Spanish Influenza, life in rural North Carolina, and an introduction to the people and places that appear in the letters; the letters, about 100 in total, are transcribed in Part 2. This book has truly captured a part of North...

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