{"product_id":"uncle-martins-sister-dorothea-w-mcalvin-9781665302319","title":"Uncle Martin's Sister: A Memoir of Friendships Past","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartin came of age in the last decade of the nineteenth century. He lived past the mid-mark of the twentieth, an unmarried man who left no children to remember him and only a sketchy documentary trail as evidence that he'd ever lived at all. Here Martin is found in letters he received: farmer, friend, brother, would-be sweetheart, traveler, would-be Christian, sometime book reader and sometime tennis player, a letter writer himself, from whom not a single letter survives. Here the young women who wrote to him are also found-Anna J., Anna, Mag, and the irrepressible \"Sister.\" Any one of them could have turned his life-and hers-in a different direction from the direction their lives did take. Here are the places where they lived: farms way out in the country; villages providing services and goods to those farms; small towns growing around railway depots; a side-look at a state capital where a race riot rages; colleges built in towns that had not even an elementary school before the colleges opened; county fairs and singing conventions; one-room country schools and one-room lofty sanctuaries where God was worshipped and souls were nourished. Martin's was a smaller world than ours, and more slowly paced, but it is possible to capture some of its bounds and some of its rhythms. That is what the writer attempts here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothea W. McAlvin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1665302313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781665302319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mountain Arbor Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d","brand":"Dorothea W. McAlvin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987218465023,"sku":"9781665302319","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_006ebae6-dc0e-4d51-bca9-317da6b7abbc.jpg?v=1683287667","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/uncle-martins-sister-dorothea-w-mcalvin-9781665302319","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}