Eva B Smith

Little Evie in the Garden Eva B Smith

Almost 100 years ago, this story was planted and cultivated deep into the loamy mountain soil and sacred mountain soul of a most precious little girl named Eva, preferably called "Evie" in Knott County. Growing up in the mountains of Appalachia was nothing short of a survival story for the Smith Family of Ball Creek, Kentucky. Facing a continuing threat of losing everything to sickness, predators, or just a bad winter ahead brought parents and their children close to one another. The children learned how to live on the smallest of means, as the parents taught them what they had learned from many generations of the past. From how to grow a successful garden for harvest to how to preserve that precious food, life in these hills and hollers remained nothing but a miracle most of the time. The days, nights, and seasons were hard, but the life was good. In one of her many adventures, Little Miss Evie, shares a glimpse of a typical day in her life way up in her holler. With the skills of an adult and the innocent nature of a child, Little Miss Evie hops, skips, and jumps her way into the heart of the reader from morning until bedtime. Not knowing she is poor makes her extremely rich with more to give than she ever knew she had. Come and take a peek into her life on this little makeshift farm, tucked just to the left of Possum Trot and nearly to the right of Paradise.