{"product_id":"9780615452715","title":"Tales Of Chinkapin Creek","description":"A collection of stories about what life was really like growing up on a working farm in rural West Virginia in the early 1900's. For young Nellie Wister, life was rich and meaningful among the people of Chinkapin Creek, a small Appalachian community, stirred by changing times, but held together by a distinct West Virginia spirit that rural Americans will recognize today.\u003cp\u003eTales of Chinkapin Creek illuminates an aspect of the American character rarely explored: the attitudes and temperament of a state with a burr under its saddle. Broken off from Virginia in the Civil War, West Virginians occupied the neglected counties west of the Shenandoah mountain. Their largely Scots-Irish and German Heritage made them a self-sufficient, often stubborn and unpredictable people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Nellie, each denizen commands a special place in her open heart. These include the morose Uncle Edward; the seemingly erudite Levi Harman; the turtle-toting Wilse Strickland; the feeble minded Bean Kimball; the sequestered, speech-impaired Millie Flood; Nellie's suitor, the tippling Dr. John Echols; the pushy fertilizer salesman Ben Moomaw, and other intriguing real-life characters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chinkapin Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50032131801328,"sku":"9780615452715","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780615452715_p0.jpg?v=1784233567","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615452715","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}