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Letters from the Attic
Letters from the Attic
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Set in the first years of the Great Depression, Letters from the Attic follows the unique courtship of a young Southern couple. Separated at first by archaic regulations of her college and then by hundreds of miles, they resolved a love-at-first-sight phenomenon by writing to each other.
The epistles, hundreds of letters, notes and telegrams were found years later among her mementos. They make enthralling reading, not just by telling a charming love story, but by their depiction of the mores of small-town Georgia, circa 1930. Contrasted with today's scene of emails, unlimited long distance, cell phone calls, text messages and jet travel is a nostalgic lifestyle with two-a-day mail delivery, only local phone calls, telegrams, and ubiquitous passenger train travel.
The story began at Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College) where Lizzie May Gammage was a soon to graduate Senior, prohibited by the college from contact with "town boys." Her acquaintance with a young civil engineer who was building a new hydroelectric dam nearby flourished through notes smuggled onto campus and letters with out of town postmarks.
His visit to her hometown just after graduation cemented their relationship but it was their only date. Hard times closed down the Furman Shores dam construction and Xury Carter joined the unemployed of the depression era until he was hired at the Safe Harbor dam job in Pennsylvania. Their letters continue with increasing frequency and longing while she taught history at Blackshear High school in the southeast corner of Georgia and he was Up North. Ultimately all ended will with proper nuptials but the letters until then tell an engrossing story.
The epistles, hundreds of letters, notes and telegrams were found years later among her mementos. They make enthralling reading, not just by telling a charming love story, but by their depiction of the mores of small-town Georgia, circa 1930. Contrasted with today's scene of emails, unlimited long distance, cell phone calls, text messages and jet travel is a nostalgic lifestyle with two-a-day mail delivery, only local phone calls, telegrams, and ubiquitous passenger train travel.
The story began at Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College) where Lizzie May Gammage was a soon to graduate Senior, prohibited by the college from contact with "town boys." Her acquaintance with a young civil engineer who was building a new hydroelectric dam nearby flourished through notes smuggled onto campus and letters with out of town postmarks.
His visit to her hometown just after graduation cemented their relationship but it was their only date. Hard times closed down the Furman Shores dam construction and Xury Carter joined the unemployed of the depression era until he was hired at the Safe Harbor dam job in Pennsylvania. Their letters continue with increasing frequency and longing while she taught history at Blackshear High school in the southeast corner of Georgia and he was Up North. Ultimately all ended will with proper nuptials but the letters until then tell an engrossing story.
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