Authors: Mary Alice Monroe
Sweetgrass (37 page)
The author is grateful to Daisy Porcher and Joseph Stoudenmire, Gabriele G. Gregorie, Shay Gregorie, Elizabeth Gregorie, Phillip and Georgia Ann Porcher, and John J. Mahoney for sharing knowledge, history and favorite haunts along Porcher’s Creek and Porcher’s Bluff. Thanks also to sweetgrass basket sewers Elizabeth Bennett, Florence Coakley, Vera M. Manigault and her mother, Ethel J. Manigault, Harriett Bailem Brown, Joseph Foreman, Mae Hall, Ruth Singleton Middleton and Annie Scott.
For assisting with my research, thanks to Karl Ohlandt, Dale Rosengarten and her book
Row upon Row
, Dr. Noreen Herring, Eleanor Jones, Dr. Judy Stoewe, Charlotte and Ken Tarr. Thanks also to Angela May, Marjory Wentworth, Nathalie Dupree, Barbara Hagerty, Mary Edna Fraser, Mary Scholtens, Brucie and Low Harry, Catherine Sippell, Julie Beard, Cynthia and Bobby Pearlman, Paula and David Skinner, Leah Greenberg.
Thanks to my superb agents Kim Whalen and Robert Gottlieb. Also thanks to Eileen Hutton and Brilliance Audio for the marvelous audio book. And great love to Martha Keenan for her sensitive editing.
This is a novel about family, and I’m I thankful to all the many immediate and extended members of my family for the deep well of memories that I draw upon as I write.
ISBN: 978-1-4592-4833-5
SWEETGRASS
Copyright © 2005 by Mary Alice Kruesi.
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