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Jenny

Jenny Richard Relham Appalachian Heritage, Volume 10, Number 3, Summer 1982, pp. 41-43 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1982.0033 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442027/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:27 GMT from JHU Libraries en,n> w (^^2> <^ë> $ by Richard Relham v_ °\ e^> (Sy^^C) 6^9 My clearest memory of Jenny is imprinted on a snapshot taken on a steel truss bridge spanning Calvin Creek. She is leaning against a side rail wearing a short tartan skirt with a matching bonnet on her blonde hair, beneath which a Mona Lisa-like smile gave spice to her little round face. Jenny was four years old when I met her. The family had just moved to Pilter and she at- tended our Sunday School, which was the only one in the community. She lived just a few doors up the road from the Clubhouse where I stayed and we soon became fast friends. I was a bachelor at the time and I suppose she came to represent the daughter I would like to have had, though at this period such a desire was not clearly formulated. Her father, Red Bascom, was a coal miner, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Jenny

Relham, Richard.
Appalachian Review , Volume 10 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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Richard Relham Appalachian Heritage, Volume 10, Number 3, Summer 1982, pp. 41-43 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1982.0033 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442027/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:27 GMT from JHU Libraries en,n> w (^^2> <^ë> $ by Richard Relham v_ °\ e^> (Sy^^C) 6^9 My clearest memory of Jenny is imprinted on a snapshot taken on a steel truss bridge spanning Calvin Creek. She is leaning against a side rail wearing a short tartan skirt with a matching bonnet on her blonde hair, beneath which a Mona Lisa-like smile gave spice to her little round face. Jenny was four years old when I met her. The family had just moved to Pilter and she at- tended our Sunday School, which was the only one in the community. She lived just a few doors up the road from the Clubhouse where I stayed and we soon became fast friends. I was a bachelor at the time and I suppose she came to represent the daughter I would like to have had, though at this period such a desire was not clearly formulated. Her father, Red Bascom, was a coal miner,

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