Blackberry Bears of North Carolina
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Nana Blankenship Hensley
Nana and her husband, Tim, live on a hobby farm in Marion, North Carolina. They grow much of their own food. Nana has almost sixty years experience in picking blackberries. They are the parents of two sons. They have two daughters-in-law and three grandchildren.
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Blackberry Bears of North Carolina - Nana Blankenship Hensley
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5475.pngCONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
DEDICATION
BEARS AT THE BEACH
HOBO TUKKER
THE HILLBILLY BEAR HOOPLA
BULLY BEAR
BILTMORE HOUSE
AUNT BECK
TRAPPED TUKKER
STAR GAZING
POPS AND BUBBA
POLITE BEHAVIOR
TUKKER AND GLORIA
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to my grandchildren, Luke and Emma, for encouraging me to tell me a story, Gram.
Thanks to my husband, Tim, for saying, That’s a good story.
Thanks to my friend, Gen Cook, for giving me many good suggestions that I’ve used in this book.
Thanks to my brother, Donald Blankenship, for pushing me and helping me to complete this project.
FOREWORD
The child is the father of the man,
wrote the poet William Wordsworth. In this case the child is the mother of the woman.
Nana grew up picking blackberries with her doting father in the beloved mountains of Western North Carolina. She was his P-durl,
a contraction of pretty girl, as they searched out blackberry patches so that they could fill their buckets with the luscious fruit each July. The bucket must be crowned, not level, across the top before they would leave the patch.
She loved his stories and made-up words; he had a word (different than the English language word) for so many things: slop-tickle
for popsicle; nog-toppin,’
for head; road-side-jumper,
for car pulling out in front of you. Those words were woven into the stories he would tell. The family has even written a glossary of their vocabulary.
Her mother read to the children at night before bedtime (ten children in her family). As a result Nana loved stories. Her imagination ran rampant with the childhood stories of Lazy Jack,
The Rich Man’s Horse,
The Little Red Hen."
It was a natural, then, for her to speak this made-up language and to tell made-up stories to her grandchildren as they spent time with her. And, so, the groundwork of a book of stories called The Blackberry Bears of North Carolina was being conceived in her, both in her childhood and in her telling of stories to her children and grandchildren.
A lady with strong sense