Linthead Growing Up in a Carolina Cotton Mill Village 1991 Wilt Browning HC Good

Down Home Press, 1991. Cloth bound hardcover with dust jacket of Linthead: Growing Up in a Carolina Cotton Mill Village by Wilt Browning.

Gift inscription from a former mill hill resident to the front fly leaf.

It was never a term of endearment--"linthead"--but some people whose lives were formed in the cotton mill villages of the South wore it as a badge of honor. One is Wilt Browning, part of the last generation to be born and raised on the mill hill.

This book is a look at mill hill life from the 1940s through the early 50s, when the mills began selling off company houses and life on the mill hills began changing rapidly. Linthead is a revisiting of the life that thousands of Carolinians and other Southerners once lived, a life that exists now only in memories. Browning brings those memories to life.

Good condition. Gift inscription from a former mill hill resident to the front fly leaf. Solid book with shelf wear.