Which Reminds Me

Yes, I vaguely remember that during high school, I read the novel "Christie," a work of fiction written by Catherine Marshall, based on stories from maybe it was her mother who was a schoolteacher maybe 100 years ago or more in some village of maybe western Virginia or West Virginia. So for the most part that was a quaint and charming story of life in the backwoods. It is easy to imagine that such places can no longer existed so isolated from modern culture, that such persons were a highly fictionalized picture not worthy of further serious thought, given that actual people in such places would be more akin to prickly pears than anyone worth contacting in real life.