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Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Monday, April 15 through Friday, May 17, 2024
Read by Karl Schmidt.
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around—fast. When Grandpa Blakeslee announces one July morning that he’s aiming to marry the young milliner, Miss Love Simpson—a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward—the news is served up all over town. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and follows its progress with just a smidgen of youthful prurience. A timeless, funny, resplendent novel – about a romance that rocks an entire town, a boy’s passage from childhood into adolescence, and how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century.
(Mariner Books; ISBN-10: 0618918716)
Theme: “Miniatures”, Williams Grant Still for flute, oboe and piano, Crystal Records
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The entire town is in ruckus since Grandpa Blakeslee’s announcement of his intentions to marry Miss Love Simpson — everyone except young Will Tweedy, who recalls when the pretty, young milliner came to town.
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Cold Sassy Tree 1 of 25
We are introduced to our narrator, 14-year-old Will Tweedy, whose grandmother has just died. Now, less three weeks since her passing, Grandpa Blakeslee has an announcement — he is getting married.
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Following the death of her mother, Norma/Ruthie begins looking for her family.
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Joe recalls returning to the blueberry picking fields after many years of running away from his past.
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