Every family has stories told by—and sometimes about—relatives on the occasion of any family gathering. Donald Davis wants us all to remember and tell those family stories. Here he sets an example with some favorites from his North Carolina family, which has had, perhaps, a few more fine storytellers per capita than your average tribe. Take Uncle Frank Davis, for example. Among other delights are his tale of how he hung onto the multitudinous Democratic votes of the Ratherton clan while at the very ....
same time keeping them from shooting Davis squirrels in a lean year; how he got Phyleete and wife Jolly and their eleven sub-natural sons and one forgettably natural daughter to move their log house from the unlikely place they'd built it; and how he tried to solve the problem of the chatty Misses Lena and Lucy Leatherwood, who clogged up the eight-party line so bad Uncle Frank paid for his new phone four months before he ever got to talk on it. Davis offers seventeen vintage family stories, including “Rainy Weather,” “The Southern Bells,” and “Old Man Hawkins' Lucky Day.”
