by Verna Mae Slone (Author)

"God knew that it would take brave and sturdy people to survive in these beautiful but rugged hills. So He sent us His very strongest men and women." So begins the heartwarming story of Verna Mae and her father, Isom B. "Kitteneye" Slone, an extraordinary personal family history set in the hills around Caney Creek in Knott County, Kentucky.

Back Jacket

This book was written to honor my father. I loved him so much that I was not willing to let the memory of him die. I would have loved him even if he had not been my father. He is only one of many mountain people--proud, brave, sturdy, hard-working, god-fearing, and sensitive--living in a place and time so unique and different that its very simplicity is too profound to be fully understood and explained.