Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Morgantown [West Virginia] : Vandalia Press, 2018. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Summary
In the mid-1970s, Nancy L. Abrams, a young photojournalist from the Midwest, plunges into life as a small-town reporter in West Virginia. She befriends the hippies on the commune one mountaintop over, rents a cabin in beautiful Salt Lick Valley, and falls in love with a local boy, wrestling to balance the demands of a job and a personal life. She learns how to survive in Appalachia--how to heat with coal and wood, how to chop kindling, plant a garden, and preserve produce. The Climb from Salt Lick is the remarkable memoir of an outsider coming into adulthood. It is the story of a unique place and its people from the perspective of a woman who documents its burdens and its beauty, using words and pictures to tell the rich stories of those around her.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 US Regional Studies, South.