How it was in Hawk Creek Canyon

An enduring combination of Welsh traditions and superstitions along with deep Southern pride and perseverance create a unique childhood on the Hawk Creek farm. This mixed heritage, though, as different as chalk and cheese, provides a remarkable foundation for integrity, truth, and the power to believe in a past strong enough to carry into the future. Mollie Nicholson intimately reveals a glimpse into her own family life in Eastern Washington on a canyon farm in Lincoln County during the 1920s. Charming, thoughtful, and refreshingly honest, Nicholson upholds two different traditions and speaks of a time most of us have forgotten. With her Welsh mother and North Carolinian father, Nicholson describes her childhood home as a crosswalk of inherited backgrounds from the Heather Hills of Wales and the tobacco plantations of the South.