{"product_id":"carolina-christmas-jim-casada-9781570039546","title":"Carolina Christmas: Archibald Rutledge's Enduring Holiday Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of holiday tales, poems, and recipes celebrating hearth and hunt in the South of yesteryear.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolina Christmas collects for the first time holiday stories of Archibald Rutledge (1883-1973), one of the most prolific outdoor and nature writers of the twentieth century and the first poet laureate of South Carolina. Some of Rutledge's finest writing revolves around his vivid memories of hunt, hearth, and holidays. These memories are celebrated in this keepsake collection of enduring stories and poems, further augmented with traditional recipes and food lore associated with the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchibald Rutledge spent decades teaching at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania. All the while he supplemented his income through his writings in order to support a growing family and restoration efforts at Hampton Plantation, his ancestral home in coastal South Carolina--now a state historic site. Each Christmas, Rutledge returned to his cherished Hampton Plantation for hunting, celebrations of the season, and renewal of his decidedly Southern soul. This annual migration home meant the opportunity to enjoy hunting and communion with nature--so vitally important to him--and to renew acquaintances with those living on neighboring plantations and with the African American community he immortalized in his book God's Children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRutledge wrote dozens of stories and poems revolving around the Hampton Hunt, fellowship with family and friends, the serenity of the winter woods, and his appetite for seasonal Southern foodways. Edited by Jim Casada, this collection highlights the very best of Rutledge's holiday tales in a vibrant tapestry through which Christmas runs as a bright, sparkling thread. In these tales of Christmas past--each representative of the author's sterling literary reputation and continuing popularity--Rutledge guides us once more into a world of traditions now largely lost. But to tread those forgotten trails once more, to sample and savor the foods he loved, and to experience vicariously the sport he so enjoyed is to experience the wonder of yesteryear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jim Casada, Archibald Rutledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570039542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570039546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.31w x 0.82d","brand":"Jim Casada","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44616686633215,"sku":"9781570039546","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5df6c869-af51-4548-9fb4-c37b4bbc4a71.jpg?v=1703021728","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/carolina-christmas-jim-casada-9781570039546","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}