Books with title Clover and Blue Grass

I wish I could give this little gem a thousand stars as I loved every single word in this collection of short stories written in 1916. I can't believe I never heard of this author until last year when I read Aunt Jane's Kentucky, which I adored. The stories in this collection are heartwarming, hilarious, touching, and so beautifully written I had my pen flying as I wrote down one exquisite sentence after another. Parson Page sins without even meaning to (don't you hate when that happens?), Mary Crawford ends up with a new fangled sewing chart that creates havoc (I fell in love with her husband), Samantha is surrounded by a house full of old mahogany furniture that has too many "associations" (really brilliant about what people treasure), Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Martin plot to remove stumbling blocks so their son and daughter can marry (grab the kleenex!), Sarah finds new money weighs on her (having servants throws her for a loop), while Miranda just wants a day away from toil to enjoy a beautiful spring day (the author absolutely blew me away with her descriptions of flowers and trees and the sky.) The themes are fairly simple - love and friendship mostly - but the lessons are powerful and incredibly charming. Although a lot has changed since 1916, much has remained the same regarding how we relate to one another. I rank this author in the handful of my favorite authors and cannot wait to read her other books. - Linda at goodreads

Aunt Jane, and if it wasnt for the looks of the thing, jest for the sake of old times, Id like to go to town and stand on the old drug-store comer and watch the procession go round the square, like me and A bram used to do in the days when we was young and the children growin up around us. She broke off with a laugh relevant to some happy thought. I never see a show bill, she said, that I dont think othe time Parson Page went to the circus. Times has changed so, I reckon a preacher could go to a circus nowadays and little or nothin be said of it. I ricollect the last time the circus come to town Uncle Billy Bascom says to me, says he: Jane, they tell me the church members and their children was This stoiy, the nineteenth and last of the Aunt Jane stories, appeared in the Cosmopolitan, July 1910, after the publication of The Land of Long A go, I ts publication in this present volume completes the set of stories told by Aunt Jane of Kentucky.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at

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Excerpt from Clover and Blue GrassWeek, said Aunt Jane, and if it wasn't for the looks of the thing, jest for the sake of old times, I'd like to go to town and stand on the old drug-store corner and watch the procession go 'round the square, like me and Abram used to do in the days when we was young and the children growin' up around us.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Eliza Caroline "Lida" Obenchain, was an American author, women's rights advocate and suffragist from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Lida Obenchain, writing under the pen name Eliza Calvert Hall, was widely known early in the twentieth century for her short stories featuring an elderly widowed woman, "Aunt Jane," who plainly spoke her mind about the people she knew and her experiences in the rural south.

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Excerpt from Clover and Blue GrassWeek, said Aunt Jane, and if it wasn't for the looks of the thing, jest for the sake of old times, I'd like to go to town and stand on the old drug-store corner and watch the procession go 'round the square, like me and Abram used to do in the days when we was young and the children growin' up around us.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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