Julie [antikvár]

Foreword Julié is Catherine Marshall's nineteenth and final book, and her second növel. It is a companion piece to Christy, her first növel, published in 1967. Both Christy and Julié give readers a fascinating look at unforgettable segments of American life and history. Christy portrays life among the mountain people of eastern Tennessee in 1912. Julié depicts the depression years of 1934-35 in a flood-prone town in western Pennsylvania. Both books took a long time to write: Christy, nine years; Julié, seven. Both works are based on Catherine's family life: Christy Huddleston was nineteen-year-old Leonora Haseltine Whitaker, Catherine's mother. Julié Wallace, the central character in Julié, is in part drawn from Catherine's own memories of her life in Keyser, West Virginia, as an eighteen-year-old. Research on Julié began in 1977 as Catherine became fascinated by both the Johnstown Flood of 1889 and the inner workings and mechanics of operating a small weekly newspaper. She alsó took a refresher course in the events of the depression years of the thirties. Soon the research spilled over into dam construction, the early unión movement in America, steel making, priváté railroad cars. Poems written by Catherine as a teenager found their place. I married Catherine in 1959 after she had been working on Christy less than a year. She was a courageous woman to become, at forty-four, a mother to my three young