![]() ![]() Author Robert Burch grew up in Fayette County, GA, during the Depression. One may not necessarily agree with all the religious concepts and practices mentioned in the story, but the events surrounding them still make for very funny reading. The only possible objectionable element is a couple of references to tobacco, in one of which Ida herself pulls out her bag of Bull Durham, rolls a cigarette, and takes a smoke. But what will Brother Preston think of Ida? In Christmas with Ida Early the family meets the new preacher in town, also a tall twenty something young man, and the twins think that he and Ida ought to get married. Sutton has died, and a tall, gangly, raw-boned twenty-something young woman named Ida Early comes over the mountain to keep house for the Sutton family. In a previous book, Ida Early Comes over the Mountain, which I have not read, Mrs. It is during the Great Depression, and Randall Sutton, a seventh grader, lives with his father, eighth grade sister Ellen, and six year old twin brothers Clay and Dewey, in the rural mountains of northern Georgia near the town of Buckley where Mr. ![]()
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