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ADDA LEAH DAVIS
“I have been writing since my grandfather taught me to print my name on the purple inside of twenty-five pound flour bags. Most of my early writings were thrown away, but not by me. People and ideas are my inspiration to write and once I get started, the characters take over and tell their own stories. When a teenager, I would often take a harlequin romance and take out the author's characters and actions and fill in my own just to learn how to plot a story.”
Here I am Again, Lord is the story of Landon Colley, an Old Time Primitive Baptist Universalist Preacher. Landon Colley’s life reveals vivid images of, and insights into, the culture and society of central Appalachia as influenced by its economic and political climate. This work spans an era from the 1920’s until the present day. Landon Colley’s deep rooted spiritualism has blended faith with tenacity in facing all adversity. Fraught with early loss, disillusionment and pain, yet interspersed with wisdom and humor, this is a book to touch one’s understanding and one’s heart.
In Lucinda’s Mountain, Lucinda Harmon struggles to break away from the sheltering bonds of family and from the mountain traditions to which McDowell County, West Virginia, still clung during the 1950’s. Her goal is to discover a bigger and broader world through the realm of education. In striving for her goal, she encounters resistance from family, religious strictures, and traditional roles for women. She also struggles with the love of two men, one who challenges her to risk the unknown, and another who overwhelms her with possessive love.
Adda Leah Davis endeavors to showcase the indomitable spirit of the Appalachian people through her works. She lives in Rosedale, Virginia.
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©2007 APPALACHIAN ARTS CENTER OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE |
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