Table of Contents
Preface 7
Introduction 9
Part I People Who Deeply Belonged
Pioneers with Long Memories 15
Quintus Walker: Deer Hunter and Storyteller 21
Early Historian S.J. Clarke 25
"The Lost Child" and Forgotten Female Rememberers 29
W.H. Hainline and a Culture of Memory 33
C.V. Chandler: Macomb as a Meaningful Place 39
Alexander McLean: Leader and Historian 45
James Burns and the Culture of History 49
Alex Holmes and the Personal Past 53
Quincy Hainline and the Old Storyteller 59
Bushnell Poet Marian Stearns Curry 63
Martha K. Graham: Teacher and Writer 69
Don O'Harra: Last of the Old-Time Country Printers 75
Part II Places in the Heart
Dealing with Death: The Old Macomb Cemetery 83
Pennington Point: The Old Days in a Rural Hamlet 87
Hills Grove and Rattlesnake Den Hollow 91
The Legendary Place Called Gin Ridge 97