Doing the Possible: The Story of Cane Creek, a Pioneer Church - Couverture souple

Jones, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0595334873 ISBN 13 : 9780595334872

Editeur : iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

Doing the Possible tells the life-story of an early Primitive Baptist church in the wildness of northeast Alabama, a late-blooming area of the state that was a sanctuary for Cherokee Indians being pushed toward extinction. White settlers-prominent among them the family of William (Billy) Edwards who gave his name and a tract of land to the new county seat-established in the inhospitable hills and hollows a thriving church and community. They built a warm fellowship that was often disrupted by theological controversy as they set a course quite different from the "mainstream" church-and once the community was shocked by an act of physical violence, murder in the churchyard. And there are glimpses of the backwoods enterprise on which a few members depended heavily, the profitable conversion of corn into the moonshine for which the area is noted. But mostly it is a story of plain, hardy people living and loving together.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Joseph M. Jones is a fifth-generation child of the Cane Creek Primitive Baptist Church. While not a member of the church himself, his forebears were among the founders and he has an enduring high regard for the church and the Cane Creek community. Jones is a retired executive of the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0595334873
• ISBN 13: 9780595334872
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 98
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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