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Cracker Gothic, a Florida woman's memoir, Wanda Duncan

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Cracker Gothic, a Florida woman's memoir, Wanda Duncan

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cracker Gothic

Oclc number

1099525114

Responsibility statement

Wanda Duncan

Sub title

a Florida woman's memoir

Summary

Wanda Suttle Duncan is descended from dragon-slayers and swamp-dwellers, a seventh-generation Florida Cracker. She ended the Cracker legacy of her family when she moved away from Florida as a young woman. Returning later in life to care for her mother while seeking respite from family tragedy, she finds her small gritty Southern hometown seemingly frozen in time, where pristine collides with provincialism, poverty, and an abundance of inexplicable, off-normal phenomena. P.T. Barnum once described Green Cove Springs as "salubrious and almost enchanted." Duncan parts ways with Mr. Barnum, contending her hometown is certainly enchanted with no "almost" about it. In this memoir, she reveals some of the treasures of her hometown, stories of snakeskins and gravestones, Spanish moss and sacred sulfur water, horses on broken sidewalks and dead goats on ice

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