My Children Are More Precious Than Gold

A historical book set in 1903 in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. The Bishop family lived on a ridge, farming a hard scrabble farm. They lived in a time when laundry was done on a scrub board with lye soap. They grew everything they ate. Neighbors helped neighbors with harvest. Women worked together to make apple butter out of their apples. Honey used to sweeten food was robbed from a bee tree on a fall day. This educational book shows what life was like over a hundred years ago.